• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    ‘she believed “titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy.”

    “And one by one by one, they have been silent, they have been … feckless,” Harris said. “It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”’

    Lmao oh my god corporations bent at the knee immediately for a chance to make an extra maybe some of that communism would tight right about now, eh cop?

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    Same energy as when Americans see empty grocery store shelves and go “OMG THIS IS LIKE SOVIET RUSSIA!!!” Like, no you idiot, this is like capitalist America. Where you’re living in. Where the 100% capitalist, anticommunist policy has failed.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    “Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,””

    • davel@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      “The obscenely wealthy ‘titans’ who funded Trump’s election campaign and attended his inauguration are not speaking up.”

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    21 days ago

    The fact that Harris trusted mega corporations to protect against Trump makes me very disappointed in her. I assume she actually does know the difference between communism and fascism and flubbed her words, but maybe not.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      She’s not flubbing her words, she’s a committed liberal and is thus more aligned with fascism and against communism.