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Tycoons looked at a dude with a terrible business record who's first term in office was a dumpster fire, and was clearly suffering from dementia on top of not being very bright to begin with and said "Yes, we want more of that"
They know that Trump is an idiot. But they know they can take advantage of an idiot. It's working for them. It worked when Bush was in office. It worked when Reagan was in Office and the other Bush.
any butthole would hurt too with that much bending over
The professional slumlord is in no way Maoist, hes kinda the antithesis of it.
Also they did the meme . . . again
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It's honestly a fascinating read. It's fundamentally a PR piece, but the details (especially if you read between the lines) provide some interesting insights about how American oligarchs want to be viewed.
Difficult to make any educated speculation without direct access to the event (this is a PR piece first and foremost), but I get the impression there is an attempt to hedge their bets and avoid a scenario (even if it is low probability at this point) where they will have to go down with the ship.
Nearly three-quarters of CEOs surveyed said they were confident that U.S. free-market capitalism can compete with China’s socialist market economy in the global AI contest, and they expressed a near-unanimous discontent as the Trump administration has veered away from the capitalist system.
This is a particularly funny quote. America is not a free market model and China does not have a socialist market economy. Both are state capitalist countries with China being more centralised via the CCP and America allowing a measure decentralisation for oligarchs.
compete (...) in the global AI contest
Depending on the metric they may be right. The free market model may be able to outcompete in producing useless garbage.
Outside of AI? I think there's hardly any contest remaining.
I get the impression there is an attempt to hedge their bets and avoid a scenario (even if it is low probability at this point) where they will have to go down with the ship.
There is precedent for that. The industrialists of the Famous Country in the 1930s had the same qualms about the Famous Leader and his Famous Party. But they liked the promise to rein in the Socialists and trade unions.
Spoiler: it didn't end well for them
For the industrialists? It didnt end at all. They kept all their profits from the war and holocaust machinery and then went on their merry way to fund their next venture.
The solution is of course to suck his dick even harder.
We allowed greed above all to be the fundamental basis of our economic system. Obviously, the most immoral of all criminals, sociopaths, and psychopaths prospered.
Now, most of our business and political leadership lack any virtues whatsoever. Everything and everyone can be sacrificed, as long as it's for profit.
US "preacher":
What a bunch of greed oriented pussies! They got us into this mess and skulk away instead of helping to fix it.
American here. You know how we have Florida Man? Maybe we, and the world, need to start calling these idiots America Man.
Oh, fascism rounding up people with different opinions? Must be America Man.
CEOs don’t like the leadership but continue to support them to spite their face? Must be America Man.
Mourning a YouTuber’s death who did not like LGBTQ and then came together and crashed an LGBTQ app? Must be American Man again.
No, at the end of the day, we can't cede America to the Fascists. The things America stands for are generally lies, but they don't have to be. We at least have to aspire to higher values, or we'll have no direction when this whole thing comes crashing down
Lots of skyscrapers with windows in America... would be a shame if someone fell out of one.
I initially read this as 'Moist' leadership, which sounds worse.
I mean, he is going hard on the way China runs its businesses.
As if anything he does makes any sense....