Mark Cuban did some damage..I was face palming seeing him on the trail. I am not American, but Trump is like Covid so he’s bad for the planet.
Trump has however helped clear my head about stuff since it is outright fascism now. I used to feel it was too histrionic till Trump 2.0 to call out as corrupt and creepy the totally corrupt invasion of emerging technologies here in the Global South.
But after trump got reelected I don’t feel like a lame wannabe tech critic. Like these technology companies backed trump 2.0 fully as was clear from all of them being at the inauguration.
The US is basically a one party country but politics aside everywhere today the average person is also at odds with the corrupt billionaire class, leaders who fawn on them and a corrupt and unprincipled tech industry whose fake left of centre pretensions I didn’t buy in 2016 when everyone else pretended Google and Facebook are full of liberal techies.
Not being outright anti choice or homophobic or transphobic are not the same as liberal.
Those techies tend to be in denial.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187156/mark-cuban-harris-working-class
Would Mark Cuban Please Shut Up?
Kamala Harris’s worst campaign surrogate has worn out his welcome.
To whatever extent the 2024 election was a contest over who could raise the most money, it’s over. Kamala Harris won.
Through August, the Democratic presidential ticket raised $678 million and the Republican ticket raised $309 million, according to the most recent reports from the Federal Election Commission. Harris herself raised more money after she entered the race this past July than Donald Trump raised going all the way back to 2023. Throw in funds raised for Harris’s campaign by affiliated party committees, and Harris raised a reported $1 billion in just three months, which is more than Trump and his affiliated party committees raised all year. Trump still has a fundraising edge with billionaire-funded Super PACs, but even that may not last. No political candidate in America—possibly no political candidate anywhere—ever raised so much cash so quickly as Harris. Trump is visibly panicking about this (though not enough to dig into his own pocket, something the billionaire candidate hasn’t done since 2016).
Granted, winning the money race will get you only so far. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and various Super PACs raised twice as much as Trump in 2016, yet Trump won. Still, out-raising your opponent does confer one undeniable benefit. It frees you from having to worry what rich donors will think as you hone your campaign message during the home stretch.
Which brings us to the billionaire investor and Shark Tank cast member Mark Cuban. Cuban, according to Forbes, is worth $5.7 billion. He holds no formal position in Harris’s campaign, but he’s become Harris’s go-to surrogate on economic issues. In that capacity, Cuban tries to reassure his fellow plutocrats that Harris isn’t serious about addressing economic inequality. He is performing that service altogether too well.
“The feedback I’m getting,” Cuban told Politico even before Harris formally became a presidential candidate, “but certainly not confirmed by the VP, is she will be far more open to business, [artificial intelligence], crypto and government as a service. Changing the policies changes the message and lets everyone know she is in charge and open, literally, for business.”
= new reply since forum marked as read