• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Unpopular opinion but I’m not opposed to this.

    When you’re at war, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Some members of the “Billionaire” class just the same helped fund the Allied War Machine to defeat Nazis, and so too can we choose our allies. Buffett and Gates are certainly better than Musk or Thiel; and so if Billionaires wish to support Harris over Trump, for instance, then I’m all for it.

    • Money = Speech (Thanks to Republican courts)
    • If you don’t utilize the money from billionaires and SuperPACs, then you are limiting your capacity to spread your message in media silos.
    • This is extremely dangerous when the media landscape is already stacked so hard against you and Republicans largely control the narrative.

    Put another way: the choice between Harris and Trump should’ve already been a no-brainer; the fact that it wasn’t is proven by the conservative control of media. There wasn’t a single policy that Harris wasn’t significantly better on.

    I’m something like a Nordic model democrat and I would probably do the same given the circumstances of the media playing field.