• toiletobserver@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Profiteering is the wrong word.

    Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

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        3 hours ago

        Using their position of political power to advertise a business which directly benefits them. It is plainly not part of the duties of the office. Same reason good presidents put their financial affairs in a blind trust for the duration of of their term.

  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money

    its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it

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      3 hours ago

      The goal is to not let them take their fucking money and run. Because then it would be real… So you come up with a new idea, a better idea, a NEW STOCK.

      IYKYK 😂

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    2 hours ago

    Y’all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can’t buy this.

    It’s a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.