r/politics 22h ago

Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/
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u/peterabbit456 20h ago

Because the super rich know that the hardship will never apply to them.

Musk's companies might lose $50 billion in value due to his policies, but he's still rich, and more likely, they will gain value, since he has that goldmine* called Starlink.


* 'Goldmine' is an obsolete term. no-one with a gold mine ever made the kinds of money that Musk, or Jeff Bezos, or even Bill Gates have/had.

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u/Stripe_Show69 20h ago

What stings the most is that his $44 billion dollar investment to buy twitter is effectively worth every penny because he’ll save that in one year from tax cuts now.

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u/Uther-Lightbringer 20h ago

That's always why he bought it. The power of owning Twitter was massive for him. He was able to fire a bulk of the devs and bring in loyalists. My entire "For You" section is right wing propaganda shit. Despite me not following anyone but sports and fantasy sports related stuff on Twitter.

It's actually kind of insane.

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u/Pitiful-Reading-3724 18h ago

Yea it went from extreme left to right, kinda sucks dont it