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I like that many people here have speculated that Bezos simply wants to avoid the ire of a possible Trump administration. This is very charitable, so much so that it ignores another reasonable guess a person could make based off of the same objective information that we all have — that this action is an endorsement, and the person that chose to endorse a candidate did so because he wants them to win.

On one hand you can imagine that Bezos somehow wants a Harris presidency but doesn’t want to appear that way out of fear, but that sounds more fantastical and wishful than “The guy whose company is currently trying to wholesale eliminate the National Labor Relations Board(1) likes Trump’s policies and wants him to win”, especially when you think about what’s going on with the other guy(2) that’s trying to destroy the NLRB.

Sometimes when people indicate they want something to happen it is because they want that thing to happen.

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-joins-companies-ar...

2

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-leaps-into-the-meme-history-bo...

parent jrflowers 2 years ago

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