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    3 months ago

    Not surprised. They’re not doing it out of some newfound sympathy for the plight of working folks, but because even they recognize that the chaos and instability Trump brings is bad for business.

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      3 months ago

      After weighing the tax breaks and deregulation, the vast majority of corporations still continuously donated to the Christian fascist party throughout the last decade of open fascism.

      Of course they don’t like the idea of having to bend the knee and kiss the ring of King fascist, or the risk of being destroyed because they’re arbitrary labelled too “woke” by a mentally ill cult, but the dramatically increased profit margins remain far too tempting for most.

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    3 months ago

    Like the Liz Cheney endorsement, I feel like Harris’s campaign should ask them not to. There’s not a big contingent of pro-CEO voters, and that contingent is probably going to vote republican anyway, but there’s a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who’ve spent billions lobbying congress.

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      there’s a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who’ve spent billions lobbying congress.

      The donor class is willing to spend a lot of money to break those people and convince them that they’ll only ever get oligarchic bullshit or the blatant incompetence and violent bigotry of Republicans from their government

      I bet these donations were at least implicitly contingent on being publicly announced like this

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      Quoting the article,

      The reason for the long list and the short letter is because the letter itself was not written to convince the general public to vote for Harris.

      Instead, its purpose is to serve as a well-timed political show of force for Harris, who is locked in a very tight race, with the first presidential debate just four days away.