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Wow.
He's basically threatening to "buy" them out of office with his billionare friend's money if they even question his picks.
What's the word I'm looking for... Nepotism? That doesn't seem to cover it.
If you need an -ism' try cronyism
Corrupt. The word is corrupt.
Also fascist.
Random aside, but I did not get a notification for your reply.
...Why? This happens a lot to me, and I thought it was a quirk with users on other Lemmy domains, but we're both on .world.
Yeah, that happens to me too. I haven’t noticed a pattern or indicator as to why though.
This is the first time I've caught it without clearing my notifications. Is there any way to ping the devs about this? Maybe I'll look for an issue on Lemmy's git...
And I just realized how awesome it is that I can do that vs. Reddit or any other social media where tickets are a black hole.
Way better, for sure. Let me know if you get an answer.
As an addendum, I got a notification from this above message, so it's not like we're bugged/blocked specifically from each others.
Same.
Hmm, one guy... at the top... threatens other government officials if he doesn't get exactly what he wants...
Coming up empty. 😐
Yeah...
All I can think of is my cheap groceries
And how you won't see cheap groceries again?
That was sarcasm
Cronyism?