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Capitalists are incapable of thinking beyond the end of the current quarter
I hate to open up this particular can of worms, but if you're a "staunch capitalist," why the hell are you here of all places?
Sounds like they are an "someday ill have enough money to have my boot on their throats instead" capitalist, i.e a helpful fool.
I only wish I could have come up with something more dismissive in the moment
They're a troll, and you're falling for it.
The very sad thing is that I don't think this absolute fool isn't a troll at all. I think they mean what they say, which is undeniably worse
Nah, I do think they're just saying whatever will get a rise out of people.
Either way, the only winning move is to ignore them.
Is your username a Dr. Strangelove reference? Love that movie
It is indeed.
Yee-haw!
Can you explain? What “here” are we all at that capitalists should know they aren’t welcome at?
In my opinion I don't think some of the things you're saying show good understanding of capitalism. I'm not saying this to offend or belittle.
Tbf they didn’t say they’re a good capitalist, just a staunch one.
Is this even thinking in this quarter? It just feels like a mistake.
Edit:to be clear the suspension feels like a mistake.
Goodhart's Law in action
I think they thought they could get away with it, like when they fired Colbert. Maybe Colbert worked because it was a year away?
In case anyone hasn't seen this, I'm posting it again. Here is what Kimmel did that was so wrong. He showed trump completely not care about kirk's death.
Starts at about 2 minutes.
Video of monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk
That's how liberalism transforms into fascism. Eventually the dictator bites the hand that feeds him, and the short-sighted business folks are shocked.
Colbert was given most of a season to carry on and all involved had a long time to figure out options, and there weren't explicit overt threats from government. "How bad could it be if they are letting him keep saying everything he wants for months?". Also people looking to to throw money at South Park which was been gloves off against Trump.
Kimmel was sudden and with direct specific threats from the government during such a contentuous time.
Target did the same thing. They pissed off both sides and have been hurting for quite a while now.
I am out of the loop (by which I mean hi from Europe), what did target do?
Target was a big proponent of DEI and LGBTQ+. It was part of the brand and hiring practices. Then, after the orange plauge was inaugurated, they switched their tune. Tgey dropped all their DEI policies and all LGBTQ marketing.
They are down 50% this year.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TGT/
Target was showing its true colors long before getting rid of DEI practices. Like at one point they had a gay pride line that really just felt like grift then some people took offense to it and they put it all on clearance and moved it to a remote corner of the store. This was soon after unveiling it, not after it sat there a while. Its no wonder they acted the way they did. They just saw liberals and progressives as a way to profit. People got tired of the grift with no real championship towards better attitudes and practices to minorities and boycotted them hard.
Voting with our wallets seems to be the only voting that is actually effective lately. Hopefully, people will continue to vote against these types of business practices.
Disney could have just looked at Target as an example of exactly why they shouldn't have done this.
That's exactly what happened to Bud Light. Bigots hated that BL was partnering with a filthy trans person, and when they caved to the pressure everyone else said "fuck you" but the bigots didn't all come back. It's kind of like Target as well. Present this image of being for the minorities, and then caving under the smallest amount of pressure pissing off everyone.
It's definitely opportunistic backpedalling, but it's a good sign of sorts: We've proven that, if we can punish them financially, they'll do the right thing. For the wrong reasons, obviously, but in these times, I'll take what we can get.
They think all the people will return. I'm planning to not resume the service unless Iger and the board of directors changes.
FCC threatened to take their licence. They'll force Kimmel to say "we don't know if he was maga" or something and everything continues on eggshells.
The FCC doesn't license network afaik, they license stations (eg nexstar) which pressured the network.
We have no values except for that which we think in the moment will make us the most money, and we hope the customers agree
They were thinking of all of the dollars they just got from the centrists who renewed their subscriptions because victory fascism defeated! But im probably being too cynical about it