• aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I was initially suspicious after just reading the headline. But after reading the article, I am… slightly less suspicious.

    She isn’t an heiress in the sense that most people would think of the term. That is, she wasn’t born into the family and has never been involved with the “family business.” Rather, she married a Walton heir who died, and she inherited her wealth from him.

    All I’m saying is that, wealth and surname not withstanding, she could be a decent person with decent motives.

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      I get it.

      But I’ll say this, any billionaire that ACTUALLY cared about progressive causes could make huge strides by simply funding grassroot movements, instead of whatever the fuck this ad is supposed to do.

      It wouldn’t even cost that much, just pump money into youtube creators and organisers and you’ll actually make a difference.

      Republicans are winning because they are winning the propaganda game, becuase they are well funded by the Kochs, Musks and other billionaire assholes

      Until they do they all this stuff is just bullshit.

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        It’s remarkably cheap for a billionaire to do this shit. Bezos bought wapo for $250M

        It’d frankly be dead cheap for a billionaire to setup and run a progressive newspaper and/or fund a hundred YouTube progressives and progressive politicians.

        Heck, they could setup and operate a general union fund and support union campaigns and union relief funds. They could indefinitely support striking workforce. Doing that just once would completely change how companies interact with unions.

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      … I mean, that’s a lot of money and a lot of homeless people around her. And she is getting richer each year from the company that pays poverty wages.