• grue@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      They won’t be free. If zuck and musk keep supporting Trump, they can decide the election with their websites alone.

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        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.

        • 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
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        They will be free of foreign interference for the first time in decades largely because the US government will be interfering instead.