Ancestors

Written by John Carlos Baez on 2025-01-20 at 18:18

The oligarchs are partying. They feel they have to.

Not long ago Trump threatened to send Zuckerberg to prison for life. Last night Zuckerberg, crushed and beaten, went to the big party in honor of Trump at Peter Thiel's house in DC, wearing a goofy bow tie. The Washington Post reports:

"Billionaires seen around Washington over the weekend included Miriam Adelson, the casino magnate and widow of Sheldon Adelson; Paul Singer, the hedge fund titan who is among the most influential Republican donors in the country; Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, who spent days party-hopping as part of his attempt to win a place in Mr. Trump’s orbit; and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google who eight years ago around this time was unexpectedly showing up at protests against Mr. Trump’s travel ban on some Muslim countries."

It looks like Trump is following Putin's playbook: threaten and coerce the oligarchs until they pay obeisance and support him - then reward them and make them dependent on him.

Want to do something about this? See my list of Trump resistance organizations:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/113485662024271142

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Written by John Carlos Baez on 2025-01-21 at 02:00

Musk, on the other hand, is all in.

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Descendants

Written by BradleyKSherman on 2025-01-21 at 02:12

@johncarlosbaez Easier to buy the President than to recapitulate Apollo 11.

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Written by ma𝕏pool on 2025-01-21 at 02:30

@johncarlosbaez

Musk can try to see where Kantenführer role takes him because there are no personal consequences.

He supports AfD in Germany. He called antisemitic conspiracy theory where Jews are planning white genocide with immigrants "absolute truth", he promotes Nazis in X and now does salute.

ADL does not see it.

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Written by Nicolas Aspert on 2025-01-21 at 06:44

@johncarlosbaez Fixing the alt for you: "Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration."

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Written by John Carlos Baez on 2025-01-21 at 07:40

@clockworkpanda - speakers at Trump's inaugurations just can't resist it: their arms just shoot up.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/laura-ingrahams-nazi-salute-examined.html

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