Does anyone else find this kind of terrifying, not in an “aw poor Trump” way, but in a “one person can single handedly control the narrative in politics” way? Conservatives consume Murdoch media like gospel too
At the end of the day modern conservative political discourse really is just some guy
Does anybody else also find “unify humanity” to be threatening coming from him
Most definitely.
His idea is for the people of the world to wake up in their amazon house with their amazon spouse.
They eat their amazon brand breakfast and send their kids to the amazon school.
They drive their amazon car to the amazon warehouse and work their amazon job to earn their amazon bucks.
They’ll return home to open the amazon packages of amazon groceries delivered that day. Products they may have packed themselves.
They will cook their amazon meal and watch their amazon TV before getting into their amazon bed to sleep before doing it all again the next day.
A lot of major billionaires have pledged to give their wealth away. There’s even an “official” pledge for it.
Billionaires have died of old age without completing that pledge.
Sooo…actions speak louder than words
decent vid on billionaires pulling this move to, you guessed it, dodge taxes:
that’s specifically about patagonia guy doing it with his company, but there’s a prescient section about money laundering through “charitable foundations” with shadowy boards etc
if you want a more in-depth treatment linsey mcgoey’s no such thing as a free gift is excellent and liberal enough you can recommend it to a normal person and they won’t be able to dismiss it as rabble-rousing
