(For reference: I am cishet, but have family & friends in the LGBTQ+ community and consider myself an ally.) Usually just lurk, but I feel you so badly.

I've been saying it forever as well. They're spending millions, to specifically target/advertise/appeal to the community... out of the goodness of their hearts? Right.

Then as soon as its "over", the facade drops and its on to the next big event/target market. Rinse and repeat.

I mean, in the past companies wouldn't be caught dead associating with LGBTQ+ people, let alone take their money. Now LGBTQ+ is acceptable enough for predatory advertising so...idk progress from like a fucked up capitalist perspective I guess?

Haha absolutely, I'm also one of the people who always said all this rainbow and green washing is bullshit. As if they ever cared for anything.

Capitalism has no values, except for one: shareholder value. Yesterday they help sending people to concentration camps, today they help saving the world and increasing diversity, yeah, totally convincing.

There is one thing to rely on with capitalism - if you convince people you can make good money with it or it is good for the brand, they will jump onto it and squeeze the shit out of it. An abstract, amoral force, made from a large number of concrete shitty people.

And newpipe on Android.

It’s almost like their support for these issues was never genuine to begin with.

It's too hard to change anything, but only if it's progressive policies. Fascist policies can be implemented immediately.

They didn't capitulate. They never fought. They just did what was the best shot at earning money and gaining ground at the time.

Don't ever expect moral based behavior in capitalism or geopolitics.

This is what's fucking shitty about this

Every company and every politician and every person who bends over so willingly IS THE PROBLEM

It's like they announce their regime and these idiots roll out the red carpets immediately ready be the first company to suck the government off

If they all stood their ground, it would buy more time

Slavishly Follow the Fascist Government's Lead

If you don't use the strikeout, you can save millions of dollar on toner/ink from not printing out an extra word at a corpo that big. I think I deserve a promotion for that insight as well, well worth the extra money!

It's like Roko's Basilisk playing out in real time, except instead of building a malignant computer out of fear it's accelerating a fascist takeover.