They did a really good job on ads. Don’t look up how much they spent just on fooling the population.

A Simpsons meme saying Won’t somebody please think of the billionaires?
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[–] 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

All of that, that the bill isn’t perfect, and there might be loopholes, and it’s hard to actually figure out what “assets” are, and on and on. Never mind the fact that any starting point would be better than nothing.

I mean even fucking Planned Parenthood came out against it [1], which is profoundly disappointing.

Sergey Brin alone supposedly spent at least $100 million to defeat it [2]. The motherfuckers even funded three different poison pill props to neutralize it. Pretty much every tactic they could use they did. Newsome and Becerra being against it didn’t help either.

1: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/planned-parenthood-billionaire-tax-california-22336650.php

2: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Surprisingly level headed response from Jensen Huang. 5% is a drop in the bucket for these billionaires and they act like it's going to impoverish them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    He's a decent guy, or he was, before he put himself in bad company. NVIDIA has never done layoffs.

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