The right-leaning business community on Twitter, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and fuel storylines about Saturday’s attack.
  • psvrh
    51•2 months ago

    It’d amazing how these billionaires can push for this, when the example of Putin’s Russia or Xi’s China are right there, showing what happens when you have a government headed by an thin-skinned autocrat who might decide to take your money and your life, not necessarily in that order.

    Ask any one of a number of Russian oligarchs. You might need a Ouija board, of course.

    • ChicoSuave
      31•2 months ago

      They would rather be afraid of one person that they think they can control than a population of people who can see through their bullshit.

    • Asafum
      18•2 months ago

      Being successfully greedy makes people pretty stupid in that they believe they’re untouchable.

      We as a country right now are going through a “it can’t happen here” with Hitler Trump and it’s no different for billionaires except their version is “it can’t happen to me, I’m special because I’m a billionaire.”

      • psvrh
        12•2 months ago

        Jack Ma is a billionaire. See how that turned out?. Do they not think for a moment that someone as jealous and vindictive as Trump wouldn’t pull a similar stunt, if not worse?

        And Ma got off relatively lightly.