First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund. Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK. We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system. Backlash is long overdue. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... - ThreadSky

premnsikka.bsky.social • 65 days ago

First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK.

We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system.

Backlash is long overdue.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-jeff-bezos-trump-donation-mark-zuckerberg-meta-b2663871.html

Comments

itiswhatitisnt.bsky.social•65 days ago

This should be criminalised; Musk and people like him are attempting to buy out the democratic process.

bristolsocialist.bsky.social•64 days ago

To be fair, American politics has been bought and sold to rich people and organisations for a long time... it's just more in your face now

itiswhatitisnt.bsky.social•64 days ago

Oh, one hundred percent, although its not like our politics in the UK has been a picture of honest democratic action basically ever. I just don't want them making it even worse!

bristolsocialist.bsky.social•64 days ago

Oh, definitely and it's crazy how difficult it trying to push for more transparency

itiswhatitisnt.bsky.social•64 days ago

Like punching fog. And yet, sometimes it works! 🤞

steveofwilton.bsky.social•64 days ago

Attempting?

murieston.bsky.social•64 days ago

So first I remove my FaceBook account and then I stop using Amazon. If enough of us do that it should cost these organisations enough for them to think more carefully about their political donations in the future. As for Musk, my Twitter account is gone and a Tesla was never on the list.

turn-left.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sociopathic robber barons getting ready to feast at the trough of the treasury’s coffers.

just-michelle.bsky.social•65 days ago

frenchie.bsky.social•64 days ago

We need to have donors money tightening up here ( and in Europe) . This is nuts!

mrbrixton71.bsky.social•64 days ago

The light in the tunnel is that these men will be just dead at some point in the next 40 years and my children will not really hear of them, just the next 'rich' guy or girl and these men won't count

I don't wish them any ill will, but they will be dead & the world spins away.....

greenguy1973.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's time I think

jamesbottomley.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well President Musk does deserve a good inauguration.

coatescan.bsky.social•65 days ago

I have no problem boycotting Amazon (the others are a no brainer). Even if it weren’t for this, the evident disregard for staff both in HQ & logistics is amplified at this time of year, and brings out the absolute worst in humanity. Because they told us we need ‘things’ and we deserve them TOMORROW!

droolian.bsky.social•64 days ago

I haven't used amataxdodger in years, i try to use small businesses and sellers on e-bay but every now and then a 'parasite' seller appears on there. (charges a little extra but buys from amazon and sends to you as a gift). They always get negative feedback

reelpresidentmusk.bsky.social•65 days ago

Zuckerberg and Bezos are lightweights. $277m is the going rate for the Presidency!

charlieparish.bsky.social•64 days ago

Makes me feel physically sick!

pearls.bsky.social•64 days ago

📌

emucr.bsky.social•64 days ago

Horrendously rich individuals, with massive egos, trying to pander to a low-intellect narcissist.
What could possibly go wrong?

abudhabidude.bsky.social•62 days ago

Our politics have nothing to do with Muskkk. To use language he might relate to, he needs to keep his filthy foreign hands out of things that have absolutely nothing to do with him and which he has zero right to interfere with. Fuck Muskkk.

naughtymarietta.bsky.social•64 days ago

We're only pawns if we allow them to be. Their purchases don't put them on the left side of the ledger.

savvy14.bsky.social•64 days ago

No Man should have that much wealth that they can manipulate countries.
Time the tide started to change, help the needy not the dictators.

skullkidtermina.bsky.social•65 days ago

But he already got him something! Donated his newspaper

westerns.bsky.social•64 days ago

Boycott Facebook
Boycott X
Boycott Tesla
Boycott Amazon

Let's not make these rich bastards any more rich or powerful

steveofwilton.bsky.social•64 days ago

Don't forget Koch Industries who make your paper towels, tissues, and toilet paper.

colinchatburn.bsky.social•64 days ago

Lets hope the attendees are made up of 3 billionaires. And thats it. Trump hopes for a big gig. It should be tiny

trevm12.bsky.social•64 days ago

With such heavy American involvement/interference in other country's affairs, how long before the bullets fly?!

petethehat.bsky.social•64 days ago

Could it mean he’ll pay for the music, this time?

suegenevanana.bsky.social•65 days ago

It’s an inauguration for 4 years, not a Coronation!

pauldstevens.bsky.social•64 days ago

I’m not so sure. Trump threw a tantrum to end all tantrums last time he lost. With no further opportunities to run he could conceivably dig his heels in again (to put it mildly). He’d be ejected eventually, but not without a fight: perhaps a literal one.

dean5150.bsky.social•64 days ago

The worry there is the word eventually ...

gillmh.bsky.social•64 days ago

I'm thinking the same. Even if he dies within the next four years, there's bound to be another madman waiting in the wings.

beachsocialist.bsky.social•65 days ago

Yet

dext57.bsky.social•64 days ago

Frightening isn't it

sihay.bsky.social•64 days ago

Vile people!

markkarlhughes.bsky.social•64 days ago

there is nothing NEW about this.

auntieshirley.bsky.social•65 days ago

Trump has no intention of leaving power. He is creating a Russian style dictatorship

dbstiner.bsky.social•64 days ago

So very true. This is so much worse than the late 1800’s gilded age

johntonks.bsky.social•65 days ago

Meanwhile Starmer twiddles his banjo as Britain burns

djt1million.bsky.social•65 days ago

All courtiers jostling for the attention of the orange emperor.

None of this is going to end well. The only glimmer of hope is that they will all end up fighting like rats in a sack with each other or wasting time on vendettas, slowing down the pace of any major changes Trump tries to bring in