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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29791263

After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

He's obviously doing all of this to get less regulation, which in turn means more money and more power, more being able to do what he wants. Big corporations and rich businessmen will benefit from that short-term, but long-term we all suffer, because we'll get a neo-nazi government and do even less against climate change.

Even if we manage to prevent or at least overcome the neo-nazi government once people realize that's not a good thing to have, nature will be standing right next in line to punish us really hard for being so goddamn stupid. History will not remember us fondly. Future survivors will think of our generation(s) as insane and/or stupid, when they learn that people willingly voted for entities which destroy the planet even more, and make living conditions for citizens even worse, despite knowing better way ahead of time (earth heating up is known since the 1970s or so, and the results of nazi-governments are also known very well), and despite having the internet as an easy means of global communication and coordination.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago

and do even less against climate change

Their plan is to just skedaddle to somewhere relatively unaffected by climate change. That's something you can do when you have more money than god. That's why a lot of the richest people already have bought large tracts of land and villas in areas they think will be okay, like New Zealand.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

History will not remember us fondly. Future survivors will think of our generation(s) as insane and/or stupid

Kinda like how we wonder about the people of the Weimar Republic now.