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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Because the "mistress" part is a distraction from circular financing, and smuggling GPUs to countries that shouldn't have them. Including Russia, into Russian drones, used to attack civilian homes, which makes Jensen Huang a war criminal.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't the 'mistress' part that bothered anyone. It was the 'Spy' and smuggling part that was what brought him down.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Also the "customer"/"conflict-of-interest" part.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The scandal isn't the cheating, it's selling products to Chinese countries despite export restrictions, the cheating was just a vehicle for that. As heinous as it is, Trump's paedophilia doesn't have an impact on the global economy.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Except when he's pressured by the Epstein class into starting a war with Iran and raising the cost of energy.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Shareholders have more power than voters. And actually care about results.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 12 hours ago

Ok, ez explain:

Nations are social structures with often a prime leader

Global Megacorps are demonic machine entities with no objective other than to engulf and consume to grow and it will replace any human at any position to continue performing its task. It is not checked or controlled by anybody and will kill and sabotage and destroy anything for even the littlest amount of growth until the planet is used up and humanity extinct and maybe not even stop then

[–] danielsoto317@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The power the shareholders have on a company cannot be understated, and they get scared easily.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Trump has shareholders too. Russia, israel, the Epstein class...

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Those are stakeholders. It's a bit different.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

The ONE billionaire CEO who didn't go after kids.

(as far as we know.)

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

More so the smuggling of chips then the mistress. People are saying it's the mistress to try and distract the public from the smuggling that makes up 20% of nvidia sales

[–] MiguelPablo@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Seeing as the Trump admin very likely knew about and tolerated the smuggling, it also seems to be a pretext as much as the Mistress or Spy angle.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Still, cheating on your spouse is more immoral than smuggling chips. And child rape is among the worse things a human can do to another.

But only one of those matters in this country and it wasn't even a crime until a couple of years ago.

And that's a fucking problem.

[–] Duckingold@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Ousting the CEO was a bottom dollar decision, not a morality decision. A corporation breaking US export control laws for ITAR technology has a much greater impact on investor bottom lines than any type of CEO sex scandal.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

So obviously a lot of fools that can't connect the obvious dots are going to say ALLEGED pedophile. Ok, fine. However, he is an adjudicated rapist. So you can say that in the U.S. being an actual rapist doesn't bring down a president and have it be 100% undeniably true.

The bar has been lowered. Severely. And the only way to raise that bar again is to bring justice to the rapist desecrating the office of the presidency.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's not about having a mistress. Huang is successfully controlling the narrative which is the actual shocker. Do people even realize Elon fucking Musk... exists?! You know, as in being a CEO of SpaceX and Tesla? The guy has more children with affairs than he attends board meetings and nobody ever cared.

It was never about that at all for Huang but about illegally smuggling hardware into China, cozying up to Trump and the Democrats subsequently sweeping the midterms. He fears for a harsh sentence under a different president so he wants this to be over quickly and get a pardon. It's blatantly obvious he controls the narrative to different affairs as soon as people start asking the actual questions and it's painful to see people falling for it.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 285 points 1 day ago (7 children)

All the other billionaires are shocked and sickened by his inexplicable attraction to age appropriate women

[–] b3nsn0w@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

this happened in hungary too lol, orban and his gaggle of authoritarians tried to bury our then-candidate pm with a scandal that he's been having consensual sex with an adult woman

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, like not even an affair?

[–] b3nsn0w@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

nope, he got divorced like a year before his political debut and hasn't been married since. they haven't even accused him of cheating on another girlfriend or anything

The horror! I'd never say yes to consent!

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I mean, we really ought to just never have a president again. Too much power concentrated in one place.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The problem is that we effectively haven't had a congress for several decades now. They're supposed to be the ones to check presidential power.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think we'd be a lot better off if we had staggered nationwide elections for individual cabinet posts and let them run the country.

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[–] excral@feddit.org 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's quite simple really: Trump has made billionaires a ton of money and his paedophilia has no ill effect on it. Huang's affairs have cost billionaires a ton of money.

It's never been about morals, just money

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Because the circumstances of the CEO affair are inconvenient to the shareholders.

PS: Three! Three Hwang-mistresses so far, ah... ah... ah...

When it comes the Republican party here in the States, they only posture and clutch pearls only when a Democrat is scandalous. When Roy Moore and and Matt Gaetz were discovered preying on underage teens, they didn't even blink.

The Democratic party cuts into its own when there are sex scandals, even when it's grownup matters, like harassment of staffers or prior colleagues.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's not cheating on his wife that did in the CEO, it's cheating on his wife with an alleged spy while also possibly being involved with chip smuggling.

[–] papercrane@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

They’re def not ousting him from some morality. He broke embargo with China you’re 100% right.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (11 children)

The president doesn’t report to a board of directors

[–] Maiq@piefed.zip 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We the people were supposed to be the bord of directors then they made corporations people and the people consumers.

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

It's not that he has multiple mistresses. It's that his mistress is the head of a company in Singapore that popped up after graphics cards restrictions to China hit in 2023, and their only customer is Alibaba.

And that's what we know so far.

This is not to say it's worse than Trump's allegations, but this isn't just Huang having an extramarital affair.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

That and a lot of those chips ended up in Russian drones.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This is the real explanation. Huang's behavior has cost other rich people money. Trump's behavior has not. Simple

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[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Easy.

A CEO is accountable to shareholders. A president is accountable to no one (at least while in office, per SCOTUS).

Alternatively, the CEO affects investments; a president is the investment.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

Normally the CEO doesn't resign over a mistress, it's that this one happened to be a spy. Stocks dropped, people lose money, heads gotta roll

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

The CEO answers to the shareholders.

A second-term president answers to no one.

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