• RampageDon@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Can we start naming all these billionaires. I feel like the media is constantly saying billionaire this billionaire that. How many of them can there actually be. Let’s start getting names so we can see the 5 or so people who get to decide how they want to fuck everything up.

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      6 months ago

      From the article:

      “Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows.”

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        6 months ago

        It names some. But the article continues and talks about more people in the chat without naming them.

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          6 months ago

          I hear Bill Ackman’s name far too little for as often as I have his paid opinions appear in front of my eyeballs. I’m not sure if he has pressured Adams directly as per this article, but I know he has been pulling strings with university admins.

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          6 months ago

          Those are likely the people whose names are in the text chat log. The rest were smart enough not to write anything down (although transcription is a thing too).