Good. Go fuck yourselves you pandering snippets of Satan’s foreskin. Let’s rock out with our - out in style.
Agreed, fickle corporations can fuck off. If your support depends on whether it’s profitable, it’s not real support. Support it because it’s the right thing to do.
They are not fickle. Companies are not people with core morals. They are buildings that get remodeled. 100% always and only about reducing cost, increasing profit and maintaining favor with the customer.
Corporations absolutely are people, at least according to Mitt Romney and SCOTUS.
It's like people still just do not understand that a corporations purpose is to make money. They quite literally can not be trusted to do anything but choose what they believe to be most profitable.
The People understand. Your statement is akin to publishing the secret recipe of boiled water
What you need to understand is that corrupt courts have given corporations people's rights which is all kinds of wrong
Then stop the nonsense of giving them people's rights and protections
Everyone understands corporations have no morals, but corrupt Murican courts keep granting them people's rights
You don't "opt out" when you're told you can't join in the first place.
Though Meta and Google have withdrawn of their own accord, a spokesperson for Mardi Gras said the companies would not now meet the festival’s criteria for partners.
That's not what happened.
They're preemptively pulling out, because they've deemed it better PR than being publicly refused for siding with fascism.
That’s the criteria? Are they trying to rely on Gov holidays only?
Whaaat capitalists only want my money?! Who would have guessed that?! /s
Never hear Microsoft's name. Nadella has to be the master of flying under the radar.
Microsoft at least appear to not be giving in as easily, as scummy a company as they are in various ways.
I'm not sure if they perceive that in the long run those that have got on their knees for Trump are going to lose any shred of credibility they may have had, or if this is a sincere belief on the part of Microsoft's leadership. Probably the former.
But then I'm surprised that Trump hasn't started attacking "nasty indian" Nadella. I would have thought they would want to ensure Microsoft is just as in line as the others. Or I suppose it's because Google has YouTube and Search which is valuable for propaganda. MS is business stuff in the main, so it would be the equivalent of attacking IBM which to the public would seem weird.
I just wonder if MS are in line but are just better at not telegraphing it publicly.
Probably because Nadella has a golden parachute. Forcing Microsoft to out them would be fine to Nadella
I wonder if it's power? Usually people with proper power aren't in the lime light, because if they are that power is typically short lived (usually by people who start feeling oppressed from it).
If I think of Microsoft having their OS plus their data centre holding OpenAI, many key websites, even OS running on military devices.
I just feel like they can just sit back, and keep raking in the cash.
That's beta AF
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