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America has gone full third-world corrupt. I honestly don't know where this country is heading any longer.
Remember just 1 decade ago, people thought that the UK couldn't slide downward and yet here we are. No reason why it can't happen to America when the power is literally handed to crooks with no checks and balances.
> At the dawn of a second Donald Trump era, Mark Zuckerberg has been busy sucking up to a president who last year threatened him with life in prison.
I'm guessing most of the upvotes are schadenfreude and hoping that the lesson here is that is that he'll be no less pushed-around in the Trump term than he ever was in the Biden term?
The whole article is concerning. Somehow there is no protection from this. The government can attack and threaten people?
The protection against this was to not vote him back into office. We’ve done something very, very stupid, and many will suffer.
"The government" is a bunch of humans. If those humans do bad things, then no "I can't believe they would _____" indignation by outsiders, nor intervention by (say) Santa Claus, will somehow magically stop them.
Exactly this; nobody will save us but ourselves.
The government can do (literally) whatever a majority of voters are willing to encourage and/or accept.
In this case, this is precisely what Trump voters wanted, and what every non-voter said they were ok with.
No it can’t; there are rules, and there are the courts. However, in the US, the courts are at this point compromised to some extent, too.
Imagine being one of the richest men in history and still bending over to take it from a bunch of law school grads.
"Rich" != "Powerful", unless there is a strong state, which also believes that supporting the rich is in its own interests.
Zuck probably should have talked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vinogradov and a few other experts on that.
But when things seem to be going well, rich men are surrounded by greed-obsessed sycophants. Who aren't going mention such unhappy facts, even if they happen to be aware of them.