California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What democracy?

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• Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d love big tech to lose

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Big tech doubles down on a bad bet. It’s because they spend their lives in a dark room away from other people. Why would we look to computer programers to save us all? They are good with computers, not people. They belong in the back room, running the IT, not the country.

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• Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Democracy in action on a grand scale.

  Time to change, as already proven, democracy doesn’t work.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unlimited political donations and money as speech doesn’t work.

    Democracy is better than every alternative. 

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    • Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which hasn’t been proven. But what has been proven, is that democracy doesn’t work. Mathematically or otherwise.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The US is hardly a good example for democracy.

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    • Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But it’s the biggest, and look how corrupt it has become. You think that those big techs are stopping at the U.S.?

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