r/technology • u/DontFearTheCreaper • 1d ago

Social Media Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-bezos-musk-zuckerberg-b2727147.html
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u/clueless_as_fuck 1d ago

It's pretty obvious at this point that this is the plan.

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u/DouglasHundred 1d ago

I mean, it's an economic system they designed to work for their exclusive benefit, so it's hardly a surprise.

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u/ovirt001 1d ago edited 1d ago

There was a period of a few decades where taxes and regulations reined in wealth concentration. Since the 80s that has been carefully rolled back.

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u/reddollardays 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fuck Reagan, such a sociopath.

ETA: Thanks for the awards, appreciate the sentiment - SOLIDARITY IS KEY!

Anyone else, please consider donating to the ACLU or a certain SMB character's legal defense fund. Eat the rich.

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u/NatPortmansUnderwear 1d ago

At least Reagan went through the great depression and understood how bad tariffs are, unlike genius T.

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u/GoldandBlue 1d ago

I have seen 3 Republican presidents in my lifetime. All 3 destroyed the economy. When will we learn?

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 1d ago

When will we learn?

Never, so long as their voters are delusional enough to believe the RNC is god’s chosen party on Earth.

I grew up Mormon and GTFO of that cult at 18, but I saw enough from my parents and extended family to know they’ll always vote straight-ticket Republican because they’ve bought into the Republican “family values, God, Bible” bullshit for so long that the party will always have the delusional Christian vote.

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u/Minute-System3441 1d ago

The shows that really made me think of the Republican mindset and MO for me were Colony and The Man in the High Castle.

The second a new power takes control, every principle they’ve ever preached - flag, Constitution, bumper stickers, performative patriotism - goes straight out the fucking window. Like it never mattered.

Republicans would be the first to pivot, aligning with whoever holds power, purely for selfish gain.

A theory? Sure. But history’s already proven it twice.

Most of the South opposed the Revolutionary War - until it was won. Then, suddenly, those same people were die-hard, flag-waving, Constitution-thumping Americans. You think they’d have backed the revolution if someone had warned them slavery would be under threat in just 85 years? Not a fucking chance.

Same script, Civil War edition: Their ancestors fought against the very nation and Constitution they claimed to revere. Had the Confederacy won, today’s faux-devotion to the U.S. would’ve evaporated overnight.

This is Republicanism in a nutshell.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 1d ago

The Man in the High Castle is a perfect representation of conservative patriotism now. The Nazis nuke DC and suddenly every American “patriot” immediately becomes a Nazi. J. Edgar Hoover being a rat-fuck Gestapo officer was perfect and hilarious.

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u/Minute-System3441 1d ago edited 1d ago

Straight up. They also just proved it once again with Russia.

Prior to the late 1980s, even mentioning Moscow would get you blacklisted as a commie sympathizer. Now? They’re trading fist bumps with oligarchs and taking Putin’s side over their own countrymen and allies. Nothing exposes their ‘principles’ as pure opportunism like watching Cold Warriors morph into Kremlin cheerleaders.