Pff somebody’s billionaire forgot to shut down the opinion column.
https://www.economistgroup.com/esg/board
Chaired by a Baron, the Lord Paul Deighton, who also chairs the Heathrow airport and was involved in banking and the conservative governments of UK, handling part of the covid crisis for Boris, and being involved with the Pandora papers scandal.
The rest of the board has their own stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Deighton,_Baron_Deighton
I’m guessing people in US allies countries like the UK, even billionaires, realize how bad Trump will be for foreign relations. So while Musk and Besos will suck his dick because all of their shit is in the US, these guys aren’t so eager to play ball.
Primarily because all the billionaires outside of the US understand that the US leaving NATO (which imo will absolutely happen if Trump managed to gain a hold on power) would basically put them in existential danger from Russian expansionism, and potentially a full blown nuclear exchange + WW3 - because without us backstopping Europe, the Russians very well may be able to straight up saturation-strike most major European military bases, and just steamroll shit.
Don’t get me wrong - Russia is doing embarrassingly poorly against Ukraine, all things considered. But if the US becomes isolationist, Russia and China will likely take that to mean that it’s open season, and there really aren’t that many world powers outside of India that could credibly stand up to a full on combined onslaught from those two.
So not somebody’s billionaire but somebody’s group of billionaires.
Not the greatest background but certainly unsurprising for The Economist. Oh well, an endorsement is an endorsement.
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Probably because they’ve always supported right wing ideology.
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You can just block .ml at an instance level and you’ll be better off for it and you can add Hexbear in there too.
I didn’t see what you were responding to, but I’m very close to doing this. Yesterday I unsubbed from just about all the .ml communities I was subbed to. They’re impossible to talk to and have gotten incredibly nasty. They just start indignantly name-calling immediately, there’s no real engagement anymore. I consider myself to be extremely left wing, but I also live in the real world. They are insufferable.
It won’t stop you from seeing comments from .ml users
I’m blocking a bunch of .world communities and “power users” because of how toxic they are. The same stupid memes over and over insulting people who don’t want to vote for a pro-genocide candidate, condescending attitudes, calling people tankies/bots/shills/Russians etc. I don’t consider that “real engagement”. I consider it self-congratulatory preaching to the choir. No wonder some people are hostile to that kind of nonsense.
If by extremely left wing you mean democrat, you are right wing
This is exactly the kind of crap I’m talking about. You are literally the first and only person who has ever called me right wing, because I objectively and genuinely hold far left beliefs, and I always have. You don’t know me, and since you obviously don’t want to engage in a good faith conversation, your trolling means nothing to me.
A very good number of people that claim they are left wing are in fact liberals in disguise. They think they are left wing because they liked Bernie, or believe that Democrats are left wing. A majority of those on the actual left do not identify as ‘left’ they usually identify as socialist, communist, anarchist, etc. rarely left wing.
And the ones that are usually nasty in their responses are those faux left Democrats that get triggered when they hear something they don’t like.
Ah yes… leftists hating on other leftists because they aren’t left enough.
A true classic
How does one do that? Do you mean the instance owner or me as a user?
I know on the voyager app in the settings section there’s an option for filters and blocks and you can filter keywords and instances in there.
Thanks I actually use Voyager so that is helpful.
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My ballot had 3 options: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Write-ins are not allowed in Indiana.
Who should I have voted for?
Your choices were 3 flavors of right wing. Who you choose on your ballot is up to you.
I’ve been told for months now by people like yourself that no one should vote for Biden and then for Harris.
Now it’s suddenly “it’s up to you?”
No one should vote for them, but what you do is your business.
What does not voting at all achieve?
Who said anything about no vote?
Okay then, who should Hoosiers vote for? You said no one should vote for Harris.
That leaves Trump, Oliver and Kennedy.
Which of those three should no one vote for as well? Let’s do a process of elimination here and take it step by step.
I assume Kennedy is not an option here since he dropped out already, but he’s still on the ballot. Obviously, that’s essentially not voting and you’re suggesting that not voting is not a good choice.
So, that leaves Trump, the Republican and Oliver, the Libertarian.
Should no one vote for Trump?
"I will never, ever, EVER explicitly make a claim for a course of action, because then you’ll be able to refute my decision as stupid.
Instead I just want to hold my nose in the air over all of you sheeple and criticize and shame you for EVERY action, shaking my head and smirking like some kind of disingenous gaslighting machine. Happy Election Day!"
Congratulations on this important revelation, do you want a cookie?
Wow such edge
