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Billionaires are lining up to eagerly fund Trump’s anti-democratic agenda
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Capitalist markets adore stability, that's why they had to quell that uncharacteristic spate of increased worker leverage a few months back, as employers must retain stable, unilateral authority over the labor market.
Of fucking course they love the idea of an capitalist exploitation loving authoritarian. Why risk the peasants electing some spoiler bleeding heart that would prefer not to stick it to them every 4 years when you can have stable, dependably hyper cruel leadership that is no longer answerable to anyone? Sounds great for quarterly earnings! And at the end of the day, aren't quarterly earnings for private shareholders the very purpose of our American lives?
One minor correction. Stability is predictable but a state of extremes is fine too as long as they can predict it and account for it.
American “Job Creators” have always been fascists. From the Business Plot, where they made the mistake of asking Smedley Butler to be our Fuhrer, to Henry Ford’s factories in Nazi Germany.
When Trump was whining about the election 24/7, they lost interest. Now that he’s going full-on naked fascist, he’ll have their full support.
The fact that Smedley Butler isn't loudly championed as one of the greatest heroes in American history is a god damn travesty
What's even more wild is that he went from being a dedicated supporter of the capitalist establishment, to avowing to tackle it because he saw how damaging it was from the inside. That kind of change requires huge character.
They aren't doing a very good job:
https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-contract-raises-pay-details-ford-gm-stellantis-2023-10?op=1
Yet another reason to seek an authoritarian if you're one of our sociopath capitalists.
To quell defiance.
I don't know who I am.
edit: However, I do know what I'm not. I am not an authoritarian.
because that capitalist exploitation loving authoritarian's dick is so small that he was comparing the size of his nuclear button to a 3rd-rate tin pot dictator's. Granted, you did answer it in the first sentence:
And Trump is anything but stable. Are some assholes lining up to fund him? sure. they're voting anybody in who'll push their policies in. (and by voting, I mean bribing the fucking hell out of everyone.)
They won't care about climate change until a CAT 6 literally obliterates their supply lines to the third world they exploit.
They won't care about nuclear Armageddon until the bombs are literally dropping.
By stability, I meant market stability, meaning shooty shooty quarterly line goes /.
Capitalists have never and will never give shit 1 about the externalities they cause, because they resent the societies they profit from for taking so much as a dollar from them despite their societal damage. Workers daring to strike after they spent decades changing the laws to hobble unions is of far greater concern to them than nuclear Armageddon, because it's personal. It's a defiance of what they see as their kingdom.
seems like nuclear war would put a kink in those supply lines, huh? not all of them think that far ahead, or that concerned about it. but there's a reason there's other bullionaires supporting democrats. while the republicans are objectively worse... if you thought the democrats were on your side... they're not. when you have that much money, politics isn't about demcorat or republican; and trump is a danger to many as much as others see him as a boon.
Because they're confident that they're isolated from the chaos their policies will bring thanks to their walled communities and private armies. Feudalism 2.0. If the king creates too much chaos and disrupts their income, they'll assassinate him and install a new one.
Who says it's quelled?