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I would place money bets that this will go about as well as Trump Steaks or Trump University...
by senectus1 6y ago
I would place money bets that this will go about as well as Trump Steaks or Trump University...
- krapp 6y agoI don't know... Trump successfully convinced half the country that the entirety of social media was controlled by Marxists, filled with lies and propaganda and cancel culture extremists out to get them, and that they had no hope of free expression anywhere within the mainstream (which was never really true, but as a meme it caught on like wildfire.) And now he's investing in providing the "alternative." Or at least licensing his name to the alternative, as with most of his investments. It's basically what Fox News did IRT marketing themselves as the "fair and balanced" alternative to the bias of "liberal" media, and they were clearly successful at it. It's probably just another grift for Trump but it might not be a complete failure. It's at least more on-brand for him than the steaks were.
- cmalkinx 6y agoI don't live in the USA and have never listed to a single Trump speech. From my experience in international [1] software projects I can fully confirm that the infrastructure is controlled by pseudo-Maoists; Mostly rich white males (their terminology) from Google, Microsoft, Instagram and Bloomberg who don't code much but pretend to be woke in order to keep their cushy positions. These people have established a reign of terror. The business model is to attract large contributions, love bombing new contributors and then drop them like hot potatoes if they ever slightly go against the power structure. [1] The work horses are in Europe and Asia and the nomenklatura is in the USA.