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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by add-sub-mul-div on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:37PM (#45622951)
The best I can gather quickly is that this guy was a Democrat donor in the 2010s, then turned into a Trumper more recently, and now he's walking back the Trumping due to backlash? Am I reading it correctly that he's just empty/beliefless and sucks up to whoever has more power at a given time?
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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by xbar on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:41PM (#45622980)
Do you remember his Dalai Lama billboard?

I'm certain it was sincere reverence.

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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by netsharc on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:55PM (#45623093)
Seems like the lack of values and "flexibility" is what's required to be a billionaire. Remember who was at the front row of Trump's Inauguration II? Musk, Bezos, Zuck...
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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by _--__--__ on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:52PM (#45623068)
He's never been a 'Trumper', at least not publicly. He got into a very public spat with the Harris campaign over failed attempts to set up an interview in his role as the owner of Time magazine, and seems to have soured on the Dem Party establishment since.
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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by schmichael on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:06PM (#45623197)
> Benioff said he “avidly supported President Trump”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/124475145.cms

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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by add-sub-mul-div on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:33PM (#45623389)
Wow I guess David is no longer the worst Benioff, for fucking up Game of Thrones.
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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by saubeidl on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:55PM (#45623090)
So another oligarch who got his ego hurt and lashed out and started associating with the far-right, just like the rest of them.
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Re:Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is neede... by gaul_bladder on Saturday October 18, 2025 @02:08PM (#45629265)
They are weaselly/spineless at heart, but more worryingly, I believe they all just see Trump as a vessel for their own rise to power.
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