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Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges

The only thing that matters for almost all billionaires is accumulating even more money that they can't actually spend on themselves in a lifetime. They'll happily engage in hatemongering and toss away democracy to get that.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

88 felony charges

Well, that's quite the coincidence.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

Crazy how nature do that

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If the USA falls to #fascism, those dollars aren't going to be worth much in very short order.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 months ago

Fascist dictatorships can last a surprisingly long time. Spain's lasted for decades.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 5 months ago

Fascism worked out great for industrialists in Nazi Germany. In fact, even after the war they faced no consequences. I don't get why you people don't see that the billionaire class would be totally fine with a fascist system.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

These billionaires don’t tend to think past their main interests which are measured in quarters. A fascist US would hold the value of currency probably long enough to not calculate into their concerns. The dollar will most likely take years to fall off a cliff so they’ve got 12-24 months and they don’t care about anything further out. Their long term assumption is that they will be part of the fascist gov and keep doing well.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The smart ones are allocating their assets accordingly. They have no loyalty to the country, and certainly not to its founding principles.

[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

founding principles.

"All men are created equal"

Is slave state

Are ya so sure of that?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

its money. they are behind whatever will garner them future monies, and trump as grifter-in-charge is helping them financially rape the united states..

but trump is just their most recent tool. its been goin on since the 70s

It's power. Money is just a convenient vehicle to obtain that power.

[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Capitalism is a national security threat.