Pff somebody's billionaire forgot to shut down the opinion column.
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Chaired by a Baron, the Lord Paul Deighton, who also chairs the Heathrow airport and was involved in banking and the conservative governments of UK, handling part of the covid crisis for Boris, and being involved with the Pandora papers scandal.
The rest of the board has their own stories.
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I’m guessing people in US allies countries like the UK, even billionaires, realize how bad Trump will be for foreign relations. So while Musk and Besos will suck his dick because all of their shit is in the US, these guys aren’t so eager to play ball.
Primarily because all the billionaires outside of the US understand that the US leaving NATO (which imo will absolutely happen if Trump managed to gain a hold on power) would basically put them in existential danger from Russian expansionism, and potentially a full blown nuclear exchange + WW3 - because without us backstopping Europe, the Russians very well may be able to straight up saturation-strike most major European military bases, and just steamroll shit.
Don’t get me wrong - Russia is doing embarrassingly poorly against Ukraine, all things considered. But if the US becomes isolationist, Russia and China will likely take that to mean that it’s open season, and there really aren’t that many world powers outside of India that could credibly stand up to a full on combined onslaught from those two.
So not somebody’s billionaire but somebody’s group of billionaires.
Not the greatest background but certainly unsurprising for The Economist. Oh well, an endorsement is an endorsement.
Probably because they've always supported right wing ideology.
Wow such edge
My ballot had 3 options: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Write-ins are not allowed in Indiana.
Who should I have voted for?
Your choices were 3 flavors of right wing. Who you choose on your ballot is up to you.
I've been told for months now by people like yourself that no one should vote for Biden and then for Harris.
Now it's suddenly "it's up to you?"
No one should vote for them, but what you do is your business.
What does not voting at all achieve?
Who said anything about no vote?
Okay then, who should Hoosiers vote for? You said no one should vote for Harris.
That leaves Trump, Oliver and Kennedy.
Which of those three should no one vote for as well? Let's do a process of elimination here and take it step by step.
I assume Kennedy is not an option here since he dropped out already, but he's still on the ballot. Obviously, that's essentially not voting and you're suggesting that not voting is not a good choice.
So, that leaves Trump, the Republican and Oliver, the Libertarian.
Should no one vote for Trump?
No one should vote for Trump either. They are both garbage legislating for the benefit of the wealthy
Okay, so you think Hoosiers should vote for Oliver, the Libertarian? Because that's the only other option.
I know nothing about him, if he's anything like other libertarians he's garbage until proven otherwise
Well then we're back to not voting. Which you said not to do. You don't seem to have thought this through.
"I will never, ever, EVER explicitly make a claim for a course of action, because then you'll be able to refute my decision as stupid.
Instead I just want to hold my nose in the air over all of you sheeple and criticize and shame you for EVERY action, shaking my head and smirking like some kind of disingenous gaslighting machine. Happy Election Day!"
Congratulations on this important revelation, do you want a cookie?
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https://archive.is/20241031133151/https://www.economist.com/in-brief/2024/10/31/why-the-economist-endorses-kamala-harris
https://www.economist.com/in-brief/2024/10/31/why-the-economist-endorses-kamala-harris
Least biased, right 😂