• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Because the “mistress” part is a distraction from circular financing, and smuggling GPUs to countries that shouldn’t have them. Including Russia, into Russian drones, used to attack civilian homes, which makes Jensen Huang a war criminal.

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    It wasn’t the ‘mistress’ part that bothered anyone. It was the ‘Spy’ and smuggling part that was what brought him down.

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    The scandal isn’t the cheating, it’s selling products to Chinese countries despite export restrictions, the cheating was just a vehicle for that. As heinous as it is, Trump’s paedophilia doesn’t have an impact on the global economy.

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      Except when he’s pressured by the Epstein class into starting a war with Iran and raising the cost of energy.

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    All the other billionaires are shocked and sickened by his inexplicable attraction to age appropriate women

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    It’s not about having a mistress. Huang is successfully controlling the narrative which is the actual shocker. Do people even realize Elon fucking Musk… exists?! You know, as in being a CEO of SpaceX and Tesla? The guy has more children with affairs than he attends board meetings and nobody ever cared.

    It was never about that at all for Huang but about illegally smuggling hardware into China, cozying up to Trump and the Democrats subsequently sweeping the midterms. He fears for a harsh sentence under a different president so he wants this to be over quickly and get a pardon. It’s blatantly obvious he controls the narrative to different affairs as soon as people start asking the actual questions and it’s painful to see people falling for it.

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      Is he though? Public opinion doesn’t really matter and he’s already been summoned to testify before Congress about it.

      Pretty sure the people that actually matter here are all about the illegal Chinese smuggling bit and not the sex.

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        Summoned to testify. How often do any of these investigations result in people going to jail? He’s rich af, so odds are nothing will happen to him.

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          Well, Congress has no ability to charge anyone with a crime. That’s the DOJ. And Congress has referred charges to the DOJ several times.

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          Yeah, that’s what I said?

          He’s actually in trouble because of the criminal stuff. Not because some idiots online think it’s because of the affairs.

          That was my point. Some dipshit twitter users aren’t actually affecting anything. He’s not “controlling the narrative” at all when he’s still facing a huge criminal shitstorm.

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    So obviously a lot of fools that can’t connect the obvious dots are going to say ALLEGED pedophile. Ok, fine. However, he is an adjudicated rapist. So you can say that in the U.S. being an actual rapist doesn’t bring down a president and have it be 100% undeniably true.

    The bar has been lowered. Severely. And the only way to raise that bar again is to bring justice to the rapist desecrating the office of the presidency.

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    I mean, we really ought to just never have a president again. Too much power concentrated in one place.

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      The problem is that we effectively haven’t had a congress for several decades now. They’re supposed to be the ones to check presidential power.

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      I think we’d be a lot better off if we had staggered nationwide elections for individual cabinet posts and let them run the country.

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      The US should have a leader who is technically the head of the country but whose powers are basically ceremonial. He should swear in the leader of the house, appoint certain high-ranking officials (on the consent of the house leader) and sign laws into effect. He could be the one sent to other countries as a representative of the USA, and he’d be welcomed with red carpets, etc. But, he couldn’t actually enter any negotiations or anything. He could even wear a military uniform to look extra cool.

      In short, the US should have a King.

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        There are plenty of parliamentary republics (Germany, Italy, Austria, India, Ireland, Israel) where the president has mostly ceremonial and representative duties

        No need to revert back to monarchy.

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          It’s safer though. These days “President” has a terrible connotation in the US. Freshen things up with a ceremonial king.

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    It’s quite simple really: Trump has made billionaires a ton of money and his paedophilia has no ill effect on it. Huang’s affairs have cost billionaires a ton of money.

    It’s never been about morals, just money

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    More so the smuggling of chips then the mistress. People are saying it’s the mistress to try and distract the public from the smuggling that makes up 20% of nvidia sales

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      Seeing as the Trump admin very likely knew about and tolerated the smuggling, it also seems to be a pretext as much as the Mistress or Spy angle.

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      Still, cheating on your spouse is more immoral than smuggling chips. And child rape is among the worse things a human can do to another.

      But only one of those matters in this country and it wasn’t even a crime until a couple of years ago.

      And that’s a fucking problem.

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        Ousting the CEO was a bottom dollar decision, not a morality decision. A corporation breaking US export control laws for ITAR technology has a much greater impact on investor bottom lines than any type of CEO sex scandal.

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      I’m not trying to say “won’t someone think of the children” here. I just think that’s worse than a honeypot.

      And it certainly doesn’t help that powerful people are waiting for this bubble to pop.

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    Ok, ez explain:

    Nations are social structures with often a prime leader

    Global Megacorps are demonic machine entities with no objective other than to engulf and consume to grow and it will replace any human at any position to continue performing its task. It is not checked or controlled by anybody and will kill and sabotage and destroy anything for even the littlest amount of growth until the planet is used up and humanity extinct and maybe not even stop then

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      We the people were supposed to be the bord of directors then they made corporations people and the people consumers.

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        No, “We the People” were never in charge. They convinced you that we were making choices, while keeping up the appearance of democracy. Then they lied about it when the oligarchs overruled us. They’ve just stopped pretending to care what we think.

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      I mean, we have laws that would’ve removed and jailed him, but half of the senate decided they prefer fascism.

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        Jailed? I’m not a proponent of the death penalty, but Trump has done like seven different treasonous things. America executes people over smaller shit than J6 all the time.

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        This is an interesting analogy. A good corporate board would be vetting the C-suite similar to how the Senate is supposed to vet cabinet appointments.

        There are definitely corporate boards (and senators) that fail to hold CEOs (and presidents) accountable.

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      Bingo. 6 of 10 had to agree in Jensen’s case. Impeaching Trump takes 285 of 535 people agreeing.

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      They’re def not ousting him from some morality. He broke embargo with China you’re 100% right.

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        The nono is having it plastered publically. If it’s an open secret within the industry, people in power don’t care because it doesn’t affect their power. It just becomes a lever to pull when you decide to oust someone from power.

        It’s one of those things where it’s always going to happen tolerated to a degree, with enforcement being selective both as a pragmatic necessity and as political leverage. It’s kind of the western equivalent of tax evasion in China where there’s a whole industry that’s allowed to exist for wealthy people, the government knows about it, but they’ll only crack down if it gets too excessive or when someone steps out of line.