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[–] kescusay 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not surprised. They're not doing it out of some newfound sympathy for the plight of working folks, but because even they recognize that the chaos and instability Trump brings is bad for business.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

After weighing the tax breaks and deregulation, the vast majority of corporations still continuously donated to the Christian fascist party throughout the last decade of open fascism.

Of course they don't like the idea of having to bend the knee and kiss the ring of King fascist, or the risk of being destroyed because they're arbitrary labelled too "woke" by a mentally ill cult, but the dramatically increased profit margins remain far too tempting for most.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, each one of them individually would be totally fine with it if they were being made King Fascist, but they can't allow anyone else to take the spot

[–] Badeendje 4 points 1 week ago

That's why the media seems to be pro Trump.. chaos and turmoil sells their product for them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (30 children)

these fucking people are finally considering that the societal collapse trump would bring might be bad for business?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

The timing implies it's in response to Harris' new capital gains policy rather than any sudden crisis of conscience.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm gonna need them to create an account, log in, enable notifications, write a cover letter, and come talk to me at my workspace in person and then fill out this form three times for me to give a shit about rich people's politics.

Tell me about your bank account you rich twats.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fox was not a name I expected to see on there given all they've done to supercharge the right-wing, but I suppose even Murdoch isn't crazy enough to actually think that it is a good idea to put Trump back in office

[–] givesomefucks 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of Murdoch's younger sons has been giving money to Dems for years

[–] WhatAmLemmy 9 points 1 week ago

They're playing both sides, so they always come out on top. Politicians are exceptionally cheap, even for multi-millionaires.

[–] dubya43 3 points 1 week ago

There was a schism between the murdoch camp and the Trump camp after they called Arizona “super early” for Biden in 2020 and Trump threw a fit. That’s when NewsMax and OAN kinda became his preferred, publicly at least, news platforms.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Join the resistance! Fight big business! Brought to you by Yelp.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Like the Liz Cheney endorsement, I feel like Harris's campaign should ask them not to. There's not a big contingent of pro-CEO voters, and that contingent is probably going to vote republican anyway, but there's a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who've spent billions lobbying congress.

[–] gAlienLifeform 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there's a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who've spent billions lobbying congress.

The donor class is willing to spend a lot of money to break those people and convince them that they'll only ever get oligarchic bullshit or the blatant incompetence and violent bigotry of Republicans from their government

I bet these donations were at least implicitly contingent on being publicly announced like this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's an interesting point.

They're rubbing our noses in it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

88, really? It couldn’t have been 87 or 89?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 1 week ago

While they simultaneously donate to Republican PACs.

[–] Fedizen 1 points 1 week ago

not sure if bad or marketing?

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