QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Feb 17 2021, 22:46)
Poor thing
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Welcome to the new corporate puppet government. Same as the old corporate puppet government but more performatively woke.
Trump was 90s style corporatism as a reaction to Obama's global corporatism and now we have woke global corporatism as a reaction to him.
The difference is that 90s corporatism was still to an extent nationalist where corporations were loyal to the extent that they could get tax exemptions and subsidies or other national legal benefits.
Global corporatism was about exploiting global operations to avoid tax all together, avoid corporate social responsibility altogether and take advantage of how weak international governance actually is. Unfortunately this wasn't very popular and spawned the occupy movement. From the reaction to corporatism we also had far left movements also gain popularity.
Woke Global Corporatism; is as you said the same thing turned up to 11 but with performative wokeness to get people on social media to lobby against national interests for virtue points (likes) and get even more crony politicians, judges and officials into office. They are selling 'green new deals' and 'great resets' that at the very surface level sound left wing but in effect shift the ownership of equity upwards and give corporations authoritarian powers like never before. EG Nevada's plan to literally sell government powers to corporations.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Feb 17 2021, 22:46)
I can see how if one is of the "orange man bad" mentality, one's brain might not parse english correctly and instead jump to the "trumper == neo-nazi" conclusion, though. The words are in the same sentence, after all.
By the way, I do consider a lot of you cultists in that regard. I fully accept that I might also be one for my Stallmanite tendencies among other things, but I see a difference in that I genuinely think my beliefs can improve the human condition (quality of life for the average person).
There are low information voters on both sides that in pure neo-liberalism compress their political views to the most basic wedge issues; eg orange man bad and pwning libtards.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Feb 17 2021, 22:46)
inb4 abortion: it's not your baby, it's someone else's. Get over it. No one's forcing you to kill your baby, and if people want an abortion and can't get one legally they'll find a less safe way (coathangers, for instance). If you think that people should be imprisoned for stirring up their own uterus, then I hope you or your spouse never miscarry, for your sakes.
Not sure where the abortion topic came from. I generally support women's rights but where it gets more grey is compulsory child support and one sided child custody standards.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Feb 17 2021, 22:46)
It's funny how the people who supposedly champion personal liberty and choice are so opposed to it in this instance while simultaneously supporting things like "stand your ground" laws that allow murder if you can even feasibly claim self-defense (and aren't black).
My only opposition to abortion is more nuanced, eg its not a coincidence that most of planned parenthood's focus is on black neighborhoods. Also contraception is super easy.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Feb 17 2021, 22:46)
Also, focus group driven candidates are destroying america at least as much as lobbyists.
The problem is that they use focus groups to find wedge issues to get corporate cronies into government. Social media influencer politicians are pure cancer as well, as they flip flop based on whatever is trending and disregard having real values for likes.