Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.

  The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.

  Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.

    You make it sound like they don’t absolutely love this. Kissing his ass and personal donations are a whole lot cheaper than hiring lawyers to fight taxes or being held accountable for their shitfuckery.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t believe they do like the current regime, why would they?

      The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.

      Creating a more dangerous social climate, causing less people to have enough money to buy their products while increasing cost of material.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.

        …like what? Keep in mind we’re talking about the federal gov, specifically. The ones that just declared Google a monopoly and then did absolutely nothing about it.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess, but what other protection are they paying behind the scenes?

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well now I’m saying that too. The Jeffrey W. Epstein ballroom.

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