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Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
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this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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How does he go from this:
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to supporting Trump and Oregon republicans?
It does not compute
Corporations are psychopaths. They don't want you to be a republican, they just want your money to become more powerful. They say whatever you want to hear to get it.
He just used him to sell shoes.
Phil was no longer directly involved with the company when this ad campaign came out.
Easily. People as rich as he is, view people like you and I as a different class of humans (which we are) so the things they tell us to do (like "sacrificing everything") are not applicable to people from their own class (who sacrifice nothing, except us).
"Billions of you are probably going to die so that we can have everything we want, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make... and really, the planet will be better off with you gone anyway"
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