Executives at Anduril and Palantir, crypto industry advocates, and investors giving through AIPAC helped fund the Democratic leader preparing to become speaker.

His donor list includes controversial figures like Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and his COO Matthew Grimm, who together spent nearly $150,000 boosting Jeffries’ fundraising committees. Some might recognize Anduril as the AI weapons tech corporation co-founded by Palmer Luckey, a tech billionaire whose recent projects include a company working on genetically enhanced dogs for military purposes.

Another controversial donor includes Mehdi Allhassani, current head of government affairs at the AI surveillance company Palantir, from whom Jeffries received $44,300 this election cycle.

Jeffries also has the backing of cryptocurrency advocacy groups and investment executives at firms including Bain Capital, DE Shaw, and Renaissance Technologies, Sludge reports.

  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Is that what the whole russian bot thing was about? People thinking I was being an agent provocateur? Or whatever the equivalent is for non-violent behavior? Agent décourager?

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Eh, there was evidence that Russia was utilizing bot farms across social media networks to interfere with elections. However, the vast majority of that was happening in 2016.

      Since then liberals have utilized it as an excuse to shield themselves from any form of criticism, even in cases where people explained their reasoning, or on platforms like lemmy where it would be silly for a Russian agency to spend time and resources.

      • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
        56·
        2 days ago

        This was mostly me being incredulous that people didn’t bother checking my user profile if they thought I was misrepresenting myself as american.

        • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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          2 days ago

          So you admit you are a foreign actor trying to do a mind terrorism against the democratic party! 🥳 We found them! We found the foreigners responsible for Kamala losing. Guys we don’t have to change after all, third way politics is totally here to stay forever.

          • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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            2 days ago

            So you admit you are a foreign actor trying to

            LMAO omg I saw this portion pop up on my phone and was really concerned for this person who seemed to think that anyone who criticized the states were like…paid trouble makers.