Cambridge Analytica founder Robert Mercer, whose co Renaissance Tech owes $7+ billion in taxes thinks:— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) May 10, 2020
“society is upside down—that government helps the weak people get strong, and makes the strong people weak by taking their money away, through taxes.” https://t.co/8HDMwDkNBq pic.twitter.com/DrDY0dhLCG
One of Trump's largest funders in 2016, Robert Mercer has started donating to Trump 2020 with a $355K check to the Trump Victory committee https://t.co/M58ykDPA3Q— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) May 10, 2020
This important & terrifying article describes how tech/big data billionaire colleague of Mercer, Peter Thiel, was influenced by William Rees-Mogg's book The Sovereign Individual which describes how the “cognitive elite” will rise to power and influencehttps://t.co/RwfWWre4ti— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) May 10, 2020
These are dystopian times, as many in the Trump admin and GOP push policies that value some lives above others, they are backed by money & influence from people like Mercer & Thiel who have scary views on centralizing power among wealthy cognitive elitehttps://t.co/TEI3NfIdIo— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) May 10, 2020