[jp_nc]

Thats because of the calculation:

- Endorse Harris and Trump wins, Trump will seek revenge on Bezos and Amazon (he tried this in the first term)

- Endorse Trump and Harris wins, Harris will not act outside the bounds of a normal government official

This is capitulation to the perceived threats of a Trump presidency and is very bad.

[elihu]

This sounds like "obeying in advance", a phenomenon that Timothy Snyder wrote about in On Tyranny, 20 lessons from the 20th Century.

https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

Helpfully, the relevant quote I was thinking of is directly on the books website:

> Do not obey in advance.

> Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

(The quote on the website goes on with several pages of examples.)

[nomdep]

> Harris will not act outside the bounds of a normal government official

California has even blocked SpaceX because they don't like the politics of Musk (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-11/la-me-sp...) so I would say is risky to expect any of the two (or its followers) not seeking revenge.

[metabagel]

The California Coastal Commission is rather (in)famously powerful. This is kind of a special case.

[ywvcbk]

Presumably you have to draw a line somewhere, though? There is not liking someone's political views and there is not liking someone's attempts to undermine the whole country by (possibly purposefully) selling it to Russia etc.