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"pro-Trump billionaires" doesn't really seem accurate. They were billionaire Republican donors who didn't support Trump until he was the candidate.
It's just SBF funnelling big donor money into giving more power to the Professional–managerial class.
Why is the Professional-managerial class so unified on support for Israel?
Of course the leftist author can only look at this through a class lens and totally ignore the ethnic motivations to this unity between these Dem Pacs spending the vast majority of their money on democratic primaries, AIPAC, and "pro-Trump billionaires". They always have to say it's about class and "power to the Professional-managerial class" and remain willfully blind to the truth of the dual-loyalty of these Jews who spend enormous amounts of money and political influence to secure the standing of their ethnostate in American politics.
These groups aren't working together for their class interests. They are doing so for their ethnic interests and their loyalty to Israel.
I mean, look at this:
Even when a leftist does excellent work in doing research and connecting the dots, he's ultimately confronted with the hard limits on the Marxist lens of political analysis. When asking what these people: SBF, Mark Mellman, Jewish billionaires, and AIPAC have in common, his answer is that they are all "financial and political elites who protect the status quo." Come on, it's just too much. Really shows the hard limits of class reductionism that he can't see what he is clearly laying down in front of his own face.
Well, Bankman-Fried didn't do too well when it came to backing Carrick Flynn's campaign. I don't think that was intended to do down working-class candidates, I think they really did want to back an EA-adjacent/affiliated guy who would get into Congress and work on pandemic prevention. He did have more success backing other candidates, but it honestly does not read as anti-working class animus (chiefly because I don't think a Bay Area raised kid of Stanford professors, for all their utilitarianism and altruism, have the foggiest notion of what real working-class people are like).
This guy is just your standard champagne socialist who is all theory but has never worked anywhere but in offices for well-funded and well-off campaigners.
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They aren't. The BDS movement and hyperbolic whining about Isreal being an "Apartheid state" are also wholly products of the PMC
It just shows the uselessness of your model that both the Jewish lobby described in this article and BDS are simply "both wholly PMC." What good is your model if you are unable to differentiate between these influences? Everything is just PMC I guess, and there's no point to looking into other patterns of behavior other than class dynamics. That just leaves you with absurdity like the author of this article who is left pondering what these people have in common.
I am able to differentiate between these influences, it's just that neither of them is the sine qua non of PMC class membership.
To riff off of @DradisPing's post, the vegans who drink soy-milk might have some simmering feud with the vegans who drink oat-milk, and both might really hate the almond-milk drinkers, but as important as these differences my feel to those within the vegan community it's all likely to be dismissed as "stupid vegan infighting" by the normie ordering a cheeseburger at their local dive
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Because most people don't care that much about Israel - Palestine. Like how my concept of vegan includes both sides of the soy milk - oat milk conflict.
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Classes have major issues issues in common that bind them together. That does not mean they share the same opinion on all causes. Israel is a cause with conflicting opinions in the PMC previsely because it isn't a fully animating issue for the PMC. Hence the only reason you see a flaw in his model is you seem to posit anti-semetism /should/ be an animating issue.
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