This taste of sick in your mouth is the taste of fascism

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    If you know any progressive or leftist that supports companies like Apple, Microsoft, or OpenAI, this is the video to show them. It’s important to ask the tough question of “What would a company have to do to lose you as a consumer?” Another relevant topic I think that’s important and ties into this is Hank Green’s latest video on Electricity costs (Electricity is About to be Like Housing), the future and purchasing of energy stocks, and what the tech companies have to gain or lose in the sector.

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      not to mention all the ai bullshit is offloading it’s power costs into the people connected to the grid. literal leches

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    How about the other industries? Do the weapons manufacturers and oil companies do the same?

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      Trump cozies up to Big Tech specifically because their corporate surveillance network can be co-opted to turbocharge the fascist dictatorship he’s putting in place, and also because he needs their resources for his crypto scams.

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        The backdoors have been there for years without dinners. The CEOs are not stupid. If we see it as a humiliation then they won’t feel honored.

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          The backdoors have been there for years without dinners.

          Yes of course. Corruption and sucking up to the powers that be is nothing new.

          What’s new - at least in the United States - is the willingness of those ultra-rich sycophants to perform the Dear Leader song-and-dance publicly without any shame. It’s really quite nauseating to watch.

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    Where are the other world leaders? Where are the rest of our politicians? Where are the journalists? Where are the general strikes? Where are the weekly protests? Where are the sit-ins, the occupy movement.

    Where’s is the pushback?

    They are the minority. We are the majority. Let’s act like it.

    Fuck the division by race, creed, age, sexual preference. It’s a class war, and there’s too many of us for them to win.

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    If I can’t wear a t shirt and tell people that genuinely suck to fuck the fuck off, why the hell would I want to be a billionaire? If billions can’t get me out of a suit and get my lips out of peoples asses what is the glamor in money?

  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Not really disproving my view that execs are basically the easiest member of a corporation to replace with an AI. Tell an AI to suck up to Trump and randomly lay off workers to “improve efficiency” and you’re golden.