It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
They're the subset of capital that least realizes how actually terrible for business fascists are and I think part of that is they're all special boys who run billion dollar companies that have never made any money.
As a german, looking at some of our biggest companies (and at where they got their riches from) i can guarantee you that fascism is a wonderful business opportunity for a select group of people.
As always, the price is paid by the rest of us.
Oh, for some certainly. Some people get very rich out of it. Other's get their companies appropriated and no longer get to live out their dream of being little feudal lords over their working serfs because now the state can just come and take your company if they need to.
It’s probably better here to look at a system operating today like Russia where Putin broke the oligarchs and the whim of the dictator can make or destroy your fortune than it would be to look at Nazi comparisons *yet*.
The larger & more "tech" a business is, the more likely it is that they're run by people who think - incorrectly - they're too smart to be the losers in any game.
They're probably looking forward to *competitors* being killed or just locked away with nobody giving a shit about their disappearance.
"every trick in the book" = got more votes
this is why right wingers think letting people vote who don't vote the way right wingers want is election fraud / voter fraud
a free & fair election is one in which right wingers get to vote & have their votes counted, and no one else
"every trick in the book" = candidates stepped back altruistically so that the greater good might prevail
That's an utterly incomprehensible notion to these masters of the universe.
THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right:
"Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
Totally! They are a batch of sociopaths who invented the term “virtue signaling” because they can’t conceive of any virtue that is’t false and/or being cynically deployed in bad faith to manipulate others.
Also a bit of “agreed to compromise instead of each leg of the left refusing to vote for anyone other than Their Very Own Special Guy” and probably a little “talked realistically with voters about the fascist game plan”
Too many of them bought into that "Mencius Moldbug" shit about reestablishing monarchy - with themselves as the new royals, of course. It's profoundly anti-pluralistic, and extremely dangerous.
Over 200 candidates dropped out of the second round & supported their anti-National Rally candidate. The French have a history of tactical voting against the far right whenever they get close to power.
Cooperating, apparently.
Fighting back at all, really.
Mostly: winning.
SUCK IT, YOU SOULLESS CHIPS FOR BRAINS
just go lie down on your bareass $5K/mo apt's concrete floor and have a wee weepfap to your favorite waifu. no one cares. fuck off.
I think people are mainly upset that Macron called RN's bluff after the EU election results, rather than letting them control the media cycle for the next year
The trick was left-leaning pols who finished third in the early election, stepped aside to prevent splitting the vote in this round.
The opposite of RFK being funded by Trump's largest donor to hopefully split the Democrat vote here. Apparently, that doesn't count as a "trick".
What's even funnier, is this would be literally impossible in at least some US states (definitely in NY). NY won't take you off the ballot, except for a limited set of circumstances of which withdrawing isn't one. A candidate in Ithica, NY dropped out and won their election anyway, 2 years ago.
What Sacks is terrified of: French voters were informed and making a highly strategic voting decision en masse. Almost 70% voted. What if that happened in the US?
