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  • it's still not affecting his daily life in any meaningful way. He is still worth $108 billion dollars. That can't be said for normal people like me or others who actually do it because its the right thing to do.

    I don't know if you're willing to believe there is no need for billionaires to ever be created or for the world to depend on the goodness of their hearts for the functioning of society.

  • we used to do that fine before the conception of the word "corporation"

  • I think in this day and age we can stop pretending public relations actually mean anything for the 12 digit club

    I wonder why your mindset is like this.

    At the 12 digit club it's ALL about image. Why else would Bill Gates try to do stuff with his foundation? Why would Jeff Bezos try to fly to space with fuck you money? Why would Elon Musk enter a slap fight in twitter and end up buying the damn company?

    Elon Musk literally exposed everyone's grandma's social security, waved a nazi salute, and turned Twitter into a CSAM generator.

    They backpedaled because backpedaling was the right thing to do, not because of any fake consequences you're imagining.

    No they backpedalled because they care about their image. For them, any consequence is far preferrable to tarnishing their image or becoming irrelevant.

    Egos control people who have such wealth.

    And they wouldn't do the right thing if it meant they have to admit they are wrong.

  • its more about the proportion of money you have vs. the money you gave. Bill can give away millions and not notice. I actually have to budget for the rest of the month to remain financially solvent.

    You sound like a kid that's easy to wow with big colourful acts. Hope you have the empathy to realize giving when you have not much yourself is far more impressive and empathetic than tossing money since it doesn't matter whether you have it or not.

  • Why would you argue that we should stop doing our duties once we have cast our ballot and the candidate we support won?

  • but be very careful of labelling people puritanical. Everybody draws lines that when crossed make the other person untrustworthy. This should be encouraged for a healthy democracy.

  • Notice how the proletariat tends to win when we don't engage in puritanical politics based off of red fascism.

    I disagree. This just comes off as a half-truth. Mamdani actually is far and away the most pure candidate apart from Bernie Sanders in the whole of US politics.

    what according to you is "puritanical politics based off of red facism"?

    The people want inclusivity, better welfare for the working class people, better overall healthcare, debt-burden free education and we don't want a government that's corporate leaning, takes money from foreign interests, arrests citizens for no explainable reason, fucks up the planet for the profits of a few. We don't want governments that support genocide, slavery or other atrocities at home or abroad.

    Which part of this is "red facism"?

  • donating money is not an indicator of goodwill. I donate money to reimburse on taxes too.

  • he backpedaled precisely because it backfired on him spectacularly. Stop jumping through the hoops to clean his spoilt image.

  • Bill Gates wealth came from his ownership of shares of the company, Microsoft

    It's not that Bill has been funneling all the income of the company into his pockets, no, it's that when he sells shares of the company then other people are willing to pay massive sums for it because everyone has collectively agreed the company is extremely valuable.

    Right.. people are aware of this. Don't pretend we're arguing about how shares work. What we are saying is that the system being setup like this is fundamentally broken and the scam is in the design.

  • I have a simple fix but that which is difficult by virtue of momentum of the people. Don't visit corporate websites. Avoid google, microsoft, meta, reddit, youtube. Its much more difficult to avoid: whatsapp and maybe messenger if your family is on it. I would argue for photos and online drive, proton is good but i guess the CEO is trying to become/has become a tech bro like the others. so you have to figure out if alternatives like immich (self hosting) or other hosting providers are not fascist.

    We should talk about these alternatives all the time to get them into everyday lingo such that people recommend those to others.

  • my very limited (I just stumbled across this article) understanding is less push back from the state over closed cases. It maybe also helps to establish precedent by overturning wrongful convictions and presenting evidence to the judge in current cases to give them pause before they condemn an innocent to death.

  • no.. trying to live forever is capitalist. It's in tune with injecting oneself with the plasma of youth, obssessing over telomeres and likewise being unwilling to let go of their insatiable life of greed

  • actually let the stockholders also get burned before they do that.. cause fuck speculation

  • even aging is capitalist bullshit

  • i felt like epstien is just the ghost writer. Trump wanted to own that shit.

  • put it inside a cage and connect your own wifi router from outside to the LAN ports.

  • they should be responding with JDAMs on Mar-a-Lago

  • no empathy for not being good parents. Now they are no longer parents.