Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to endorse anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination over the weekend. Dorsey retweeted a video of Kennedy sayin…
Business leaders have nothing in common with the rest of us, so why should we trust them to have our best interests in mind? Athletes, famous musicians, business leaders, celebrities all have one thing in common - money. They have much more of it than the vast majority of people and they generally want more of it.
Jack Dorsey doesn't want Democrats in power because they might "take his money", so he's promoting a fringe candidate to be a spoiler to Biden.
Because he has the ability to influence the public either with his reputation or his social media platform once it gets going. There's also a group of people who likely look up to him as someone who's fulfilled the American dream, starting at the bottom and becoming a billionaire and sadly far too many Americans believe if they were only given the chance that would be them too so they listen to this drivel.
It doesn't, and I doubt anyone reading this would agree.
But if you believe billionaires shouldn't have so much more influence, it's not a bad idea to emphasis the frequent moronic, out of touch decisions like this. At least Andrew Yang was an honest candidate.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to endorse anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination over the weekend.
Nah, Dorsey's always been a "libertarian" (read: Republican who wants to smoke weed) POS since he was a broke nobody. All that's changed is, if his stupid Blusky thing takes off, he'll have the power to make his idiocy our problem.
You mean the dude who's gunning for the Democratic presidential nomination and the other guy who's busy creating a Twitter alternative? They pretty much can affect public opinions, so people should at least be aware of the potential implications.
Talking more about the use of only initals. had to look him up. People only have as much influence as society will listen to them. And personally I don't give a shit about either of these guys. Just don't vote for him
I see the worst possible timeline is coalescing. Bigoted Florida Man / Orange Narcissist versus Anti-vax conspiracy theorist... all of them with ties to hate groups.
Meanwhile, Biden's been comfortably polling at 60%-plus, even when RFK jr was at the "height" of his popularity among Dems (which, again, was never particularly high).
I wouldn't worry about it. Plenty of other, more important things to worry about, lol.
I recommend the Conspirituality podcast for the most detailed non-hot take on RFK Jr. Cornell West said it best, "He needs to put down the crack pipe!"