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minus-squareearphone843linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·3 days agoIf they happen. Fascists don’t give up power by letting the people choose.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-23 days agoThe question is not whether they will happen; the question is whether they will be fair and free. Every modern authoritarian regime, even including North Korea, at least maintains the pretense of voting.
minus-squareuniquethrowagay@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThey won’t be free. If zuck and musk keep supporting Trump, they can decide the election with their websites alone.
minus-squareNocturnalEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 days agoPartial list of billionaires in attendance to Trump’s inauguration in person. The collective control they have over the information, infrastructure, and financing is terrifying. Mark Zuckerberg - Meta Jeff Bezos - Amazon Sundar Pichai - Google Elon Musk - Telsa / Twitter / SpaceX Tim Cook - Apple Sam Altman - OpenAI Shou Zi Chew - Tiktok Rupert Murdoch - NewsCorp Chris Wright - Liberty Energy Howard Lutnick - Cantor Fitzgerald Doug Burgum - Arthur Ventures
minus-squareMothmanDelorian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoThey will be free of foreign interference for the first time in decades largely because the US government will be interfering instead.
If they happen. Fascists don’t give up power by letting the people choose.
The question is not whether they will happen; the question is whether they will be fair and free.
Every modern authoritarian regime, even including North Korea, at least maintains the pretense of voting.
They won’t be free. If zuck and musk keep supporting Trump, they can decide the election with their websites alone.
Partial list of billionaires in attendance to Trump’s inauguration in person. The collective control they have over the information, infrastructure, and financing is terrifying.
They will be free of foreign interference for the first time in decades largely because the US government will be interfering instead.