Yep, if history is any guide, Democrats, if they ever get back in power, will want to look forward, not back. They’ve done that with Nixon, Reagan, the GFC, torture, Trump’s whole ass coup, …

It just means that the exact same characters will just try again.

Yeah, can’t really joke about executions in the street.

Big issue with the state of politics, comedians are basically relegated to just reading the news because it’s already a satire.

I mean, the thing is that a donation to philanthropy is tax deductible, so even if you control the charity 100%, it counts. Instead of paying taxes, you’re just paying yourself. And once it’s in that charity, you can use that money for any charitable cause, even if that cause benefits the non-charitable side of your portfolio. This means that you can

• pay for your own PR
• use the charity money to buy a bunch of medicine to eradicate some disease, while you have investments in the pharma company that will provide said medicine
• donate to academia to steer research goals and then become a early investor in any spinoff companies that result from that
• donate to a charity run by a politician/other rich person to curry favour

It’s not a coincidence he’s become richer despite ‘donating his wealth’.

Just shows that the idea that Bill Gates was one of the good ones was just PR. There are no good billionaires.

Yeah, it really depends on whether he can do it parallel or in series.

I guess if Hitler was allowed to design a car, Musk didn’t want to be left behind.

The FBI murdered their leadership, for one.