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$1,000,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money for them, why would it matter to them?

by koakuma-chan 8mo ago

pavel_lishin 8mo ago
To Nvidia, or to the recipients?
- koakuma-chan 8mo ago
  Both?
johnbarron 8mo ago
Ah yes, again the: "I am so rich I could not possibly be corrupt!" "Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion" - https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-pr... "How much money President Trump and his family have made" - https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-merch-hotels-crypto https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-m...
loupol 8mo ago
A good reason to outlaw bribes is that politicians tend to be incredibly cheap and offer an extremely high ROI. Albeit at the cost of a nice democracy.
rtkwe 8mo ago
You're forgetting that this is the same guy who managed to bankrupt a casino. He's not actually that good with money and until the latest bribe channels opened, eg Trump Coin and the Board of Peace, opened their finances may have been in a bit of a mess. Also I'd bet the ballroom donation was much larger, it's a massive blackhole of graft waiting to happen. It's also not solely about money, you can get far just knowing how to chum it up with Trump when you get in the room with him. Look at the odd quasi-bromance between him and Mamdani who you'd expect to be enemy #1 but Mamdani knows how to schmooze the exact type of New York Guy Trump is.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 8mo ago
  Ahem, depending on how you count, he bankrupted 4-6 casinos.
mdasen 8mo ago
For fascism, it's not always about getting something you think is a lot. It's about a power relationship. Trump has demonstrated that Nvidia will bow to his will. It's also potentially an implementation of the foot-in-the-door technique (https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html). It's a common manipulative strategy where you get someone to do a small favor for you which makes them much more likely to do a large favor for you later.
ashdksnndck 8mo ago
Ghengis Khan didn’t need your chest of gold, he owned many gold mines. Regardless, he was going to take it from you the easy way or the hard way.

$1,000,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money for them, why would it matter to them?

pavel_lishin 8mo ago

To Nvidia, or to the recipients?

koakuma-chan 8mo ago
Both?

johnbarron 8mo ago

Ah yes, again the: "I am so rich I could not possibly be corrupt!" "Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion" - https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-pr... "How much money President Trump and his family have made" - https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-merch-hotels-crypto https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-m...

loupol 8mo ago

A good reason to outlaw bribes is that politicians tend to be incredibly cheap and offer an extremely high ROI. Albeit at the cost of a nice democracy.

rtkwe 8mo ago

You're forgetting that this is the same guy who managed to bankrupt a casino. He's not actually that good with money and until the latest bribe channels opened, eg Trump Coin and the Board of Peace, opened their finances may have been in a bit of a mess. Also I'd bet the ballroom donation was much larger, it's a massive blackhole of graft waiting to happen. It's also not solely about money, you can get far just knowing how to chum it up with Trump when you get in the room with him. Look at the odd quasi-bromance between him and Mamdani who you'd expect to be enemy #1 but Mamdani knows how to schmooze the exact type of New York Guy Trump is.

0cf8612b2e1e 8mo ago
Ahem, depending on how you count, he bankrupted 4-6 casinos.

mdasen 8mo ago

For fascism, it's not always about getting something you think is a lot. It's about a power relationship. Trump has demonstrated that Nvidia will bow to his will. It's also potentially an implementation of the foot-in-the-door technique (https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html). It's a common manipulative strategy where you get someone to do a small favor for you which makes them much more likely to do a large favor for you later.

ashdksnndck 8mo ago

Ghengis Khan didn’t need your chest of gold, he owned many gold mines. Regardless, he was going to take it from you the easy way or the hard way.