• plyth@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Why do the billionaires go along with Trump if he is not representing their but Russian interests?

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      because many billionaires actually depend on russia at least for the massive propaganda apparatus that he posess to divide the us and europe via troll farms, bots, and russian-backed grifters, aka culture wars, from the actual enemies, taxing the billionaires. aside from some that depend on russia for natural resources.

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        1 day ago

        The US billionaires control the ranking algorithms and the filters. They control the TV stations and the newspapers. Unless everybody uses Telegram Russia can’t be that influential.

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      Russian interests are oligarch interests. So he is very much representing billionaires.

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      I think it’s something to do with billionaires liking the idea of truly fully being oligarchs. The Russian model brought here would validate Russia’s political state and Putin.