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It concerns me how much of the commentary here is about this or that partisan argument. If Harris had won we’d have those policies for a maximum of eight years,
by benreesman 2y ago
It concerns me how much of the commentary here is about this or that partisan argument. If Harris had won we’d have those policies for a maximum of eight years, as it stands we’ll have these policies for a maximum of four.
Bezos will be buying newspapers and pushing out journalism critical of him for decades. He’ll be further monopolizing everything from retail to cloud compute in defiance of antitrust law, and further lobbying at this scale, and further privatizing space travel, and all the godawful shit that these guys either have done or clearly plan to for decades, there is no term limit on unaccountable billionaire with monopoly pricing power and arbitrary campaign financing apparatus.
This or that president for one term is just irrelevant at such scale and scope and duration.
- rsanek 2y ago> Bezos will be buying newspapers and pushing out journalism critical of him for decades Bezos bought WaPo over a decade ago. I don't see any reason to expect that he's going to radically increase his pace of acquisition.
- benreesman 2y agoThe pace of unapologetic interference in the modern day “press” and politics by Big Tech zillionaires is accelerating faster than a Cyber truck: these motherfuckers tweet and detail budget bills now. Ellison is in the press saying that ubiquitous “AI” surveillance will keep citizens on their best behavior. Historians will draw some arbitrary line on some date about when this went completely parabolic fascist. It will be something like right now.
- davidw 2y agoThis is a great point. A significant part of the problem right now is the 'oligarch' aspect.
- benreesman 2y agoIt’s the entire problem to a first approximation. The difference between red and blue is really very small on this scale: Bernie Sanders and Laura Loomer are aligned on X. And my original post shot up a few points and is now getting buried, per typical, because it’s part of the social contract around here that we scrutinize everything except unchecked techno optimism.