What a way to launch John Crapple.

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[–] 91 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.

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  • [–] 18 points 17 hours ago

    Hey hey hey,

    They stand up against unions

    They stand up against cheap, green energy

    They stand up against human rights

    They stand up against good working conditions

    They stand up against good and affordable medical care

    They stand up against required paid sick leave and maternity leave

    They stand up against regulations to not poison people or exploit people quite so much

    They stand up against anything that might slightly hurt short term profits.

    They pump tens or hundreds of billions at the government to "stand up to them". Just always, without exception, to pommel the working class and long term into the ground and sacrifice the long term for short term superficial gains.

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  • [–] 35 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Corporations control the government in the US. The government is bad because of corporations and neither are going to save you from either.

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  • [–] 11 points 22 hours ago

    Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That's the only real power we have against corporations.

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  • [–] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    Except Costco. They did stand up against the DEI bullshit and recently have expressly said they won't buy and distributed the imported beef. I assume there's more between those two points in time, I'm just not aware. One of the few out there doing good stuff.

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