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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, sure, except they keep supporting him. So their concern means jack shit, quite obviously.

[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If the top 25 CEOs came out and said "We are going on general strike until Trump is impeached"

This is probably 8 to 15 million American households.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

No, its 25 americans.

The professional slumlord is in no way Maoist, hes kinda the antithesis of it.

Also they did the meme . . . again

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Source article:

https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/behind-closed-doors-ceos-say-trump-is-bad-for-business-and-its-time-to-make-america-into-america-again/

It's honestly a fascinating read. It's fundamentally a PR piece, but the details (especially if you read between the lines) provide some interesting insights about how American oligarchs want to be viewed.

Difficult to make any educated speculation without direct access to the event (this is a PR piece first and foremost), but I get the impression there is an attempt to hedge their bets and avoid a scenario (even if it is low probability at this point) where they will have to go down with the ship.

Nearly three-quarters of CEOs surveyed said they were confident that U.S. free-market capitalism can compete with China’s socialist market economy in the global AI contest, and they expressed a near-unanimous discontent as the Trump administration has veered away from the capitalist system.

This is a particularly funny quote. America is not a free market model and China does not have a socialist market economy. Both are state capitalist countries with China being more centralised via the CCP and America allowing a measure decentralisation for oligarchs.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get the impression there is an attempt to hedge their bets and avoid a scenario (even if it is low probability at this point) where they will have to go down with the ship.

There is precedent for that. The industrialists of the Famous Country in the 1930s had the same qualms about the Famous Leader and his Famous Party. But they liked the promise to rein in the Socialists and trade unions.

Spoiler: it didn't end well for them

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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 37 points 1 week ago
[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The solution is of course to suck his dick even harder.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We allowed greed above all to be the fundamental basis of our economic system. Obviously, the most immoral of all criminals, sociopaths, and psychopaths prospered.

Now, most of our business and political leadership lack any virtues whatsoever. Everything and everyone can be sacrificed, as long as it's for profit.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

US "preacher":

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (46 children)

Ok I can see a comparison to the cultural revolution, especially with the attacks against academics. But the landlord president is most certainly not a maoist

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

He's definitely not ideologically a maoist (partially because he has no ideology beyond power and narcissism), but personality wise he shares a tendency to reject expertise, believe he knows best, and cause disasters out of stubborn narcissistic stupidity.

Although his death count is still 1/50 of that of Mao.

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[–] F_State@midwest.social 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tycoons looked at a dude with a terrible business record who's first term in office was a dumpster fire, and was clearly suffering from dementia on top of not being very bright to begin with and said "Yes, we want more of that"

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

They just were supporting both sides without paying attention.

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They know that Trump is an idiot. But they know they can take advantage of an idiot. It's working for them. It worked when Bush was in office. It worked when Reagan was in Office and the other Bush.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

I think that only applies to a couple of them like Peter Thiel and Musk. For others, it's been a neutral or negative experience and bound to get worse.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

What a bunch of greed oriented pussies! They got us into this mess and skulk away instead of helping to fix it.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Maoist"? lol

So, is Trump gonna order executions of landlords now?

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

If that happens he has my utmost support. I would buy 5 overpriced maga huts in a heartbeat

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Media really trying to get that red scare stuff to get people to dislike Trump. You got this and then there's Harris calling Trump a commie.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

If they make them into communists then they can beat them and continue doing capitalism instead of admitting that conservative ideologies are all backwards nonsense that have never been proven to work outside of interactions made up by people who are consistently wrong about everything.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The problem being that for many people (including my own ex, apparently, both to my and my kid's utter shock), authoritarianism and communism/socialism are synonyms. For those folks who got fed the propaganda and had no real reason or desire to question it, that's the characterization that works the best to communicate the threat.

For reference, an actual conversation:
"Man, Trump is going to make the U.S. a full-blown communist country"
[Me and Kid: Mouth agape, silence for about 5 seconds]: "I'm sorry, WHAT?"
"Yeah, you know, communist, like Russia was with Stalin".
"...do you not know what communism is?"
"Yes, it's when there's an authoritarian dictator."
"No, that's authoritarianism."
"Oh. I've never heard of that before."

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, I'm writing a thesis right now about actual Maoism, and like... Really? That's the phrase they chose?

Words used to fucking mean something!

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[–] wheelsbot7@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

They're trying EVERYTHING to avoid Nazi comparisons.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm fucking tired of these insider anonymites wringing their hands and nothing changing, just shut the fuck up or be fully transparent with this. Take a meaningful stand and stop ass-covering so you can say I was against this the whole time when everything collapses.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

That's just it they publicly suck his dick and leak stuff about being against him so they cover their asses. So they can say I didn't support him. Couldn't these assholes say we are moving their headquarters out of America. But they won't cause America is the biggest market and line must go up.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

How are Western oligarchs so good at seeing something bad happen and concluding this is not us, this is what people from there do!

No its you. Learn to introspect..

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Americans: Americanly do something american

Famed Yale Business Guru: What are we, a bunch of Chinamen?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

They paid for it. Do they have buyers remorse already? It'd be a good thing if the resulting shitstorm consumes them all.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CEO Whisperer sounds like the tagline of someone in !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

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