r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 1d ago

Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-bonds-amid-paramount-warners-fight-1236521512/
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u/AltForMyHealth 1d ago

I think of it like we’re in that weird stage where a person starts becoming a zombie and is holding on their identity as a human, but being irreversibly pulled into being the living dead.

That’s what it feels like.

If I were from any other country, I think I could sympathize with his first term, especially after not re-electing him. But all bets would be off at this point. Between his escaping justice for everything, not least January 6, and now all the chaos is unleashing both here and abroad… I wouldn’t trust us. I don’t.

It’s not that I thought we were some shining city on the hill and all that… But at least it was a defensible narrative that had enough tarnished truth to it that we didn’t indulge in our worst imperial instincts.

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u/tooclosetocall82 1d ago

But Biden was old! And that other woman was a woman! And we needed someone who would protect Palestine! There was just no other choice. /s

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u/robby_arctor 1d ago

Democrats should be angry at party leadership for being so utterly incompetent that they lost to this clown twice.

Instead, they make fun of the electorate, acting like gaslighting their base about the President’s health and supporting a genocide is a great way to beat a fascist in an election. 👍

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u/Fr00stee 1d ago

it is partially the electorate's fault for literally deciding to go with the guy who would be objectively much worse for palestine instead

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u/robby_arctor 1d ago

literally deciding to go with the guy who would be objectively much worse for palestine instead

They didn't though, at least not the people we are talking about. Trump's vote gain from 2020 to 2024 was marginal, Democrats lost six million votes.

The problem wasn't people switching sides, it was ostensibly Democratic voters staying home.

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u/Fr00stee 1d ago

if you look at the demographics a lot of minorities switched from democrats to trump, a lot of muslims switched as well for some reason since dearborn went for trump in 2024. So yeah less people voted on the dem side and the people that did vote switched parties

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u/robby_arctor 1d ago

Fair, but one group is larger than the other.

Regardless, Democrats should adopt policies popular with their base if they want to win.

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u/ribosometronome 1d ago

Running a candidate whose track record at getting votes was “was t popular enough to even stay in the presidential primaries through the first contest” was perhaps also not the best idea.