Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days ago[September 2024] JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platformswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up1672arrow-down136file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.worldeurope@feddit.orgnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1636arrow-down1external-link[September 2024] JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platformswww.independent.co.ukOtter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square224fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.worldeurope@feddit.orgnews@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22332949 JD Vance said that ‘American power comes with certain strings attached’ Archive link
minus-squarePhoenicianpirate@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down1·3 days agoThis is why billionaires shouldn’t exist. The other thing I need to mention is that is that Elon Musk is far from the only billionaire with a massively disproportionate influence on elections and society. Or even the biggest. He is just the biggest attention whore of them all.
minus-squareC126@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoIt’d be messed up for the government to do this even if he wasn’t a billionaire though. End corporations in bed with government.
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoDemocracy voted for this, apparently
This is why billionaires shouldn’t exist.
The other thing I need to mention is that is that Elon Musk is far from the only billionaire with a massively disproportionate influence on elections and society. Or even the biggest. He is just the biggest attention whore of them all.
It’d be messed up for the government to do this even if he wasn’t a billionaire though. End corporations in bed with government.
Democracy voted for this, apparently