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This Is the Age of the Coward (www.theindex.media)

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“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can't find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can't muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren't businesses making tough choices – they're paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

These aren’t businesses making tough choices – they’re paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”

How desperate to hide from reality can someone be??

These are the most powerful people on the planet making perfectly reasonable decisions for their own benefit, because that's literally the only thing they've ever cared about.

The idea that corporations and the people who run them should be "brave" and stand up against the very system that enables them to exist, or somehow give a single fuck about society at large, otherwise they're "cowards" (and not simply self serving oppressors) is so far beyond absurd, it's actually enraging at this point.

[–] PlantDadManGuy 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

While I disagree with the usual joke that says "corporations are people," I do think they represent the people who run them. In modern USA, our big companies are infinitely more powerful than our government, and it seems like SOME of them should be putting up a fight, standing up for their queer employees, Hispanic customers or at least the Palestinian family members of the board. Literally no one with real power is opposing this fascist takeover, and it fucking disgusts me. Companies are jumping at the chance to appease orange Hitler, and all struck down their gay pride policies before even being ordered or threatened. I guess somehow I was naive enough to hope that Starbucks or Patagonia or Target would pretend to resist the erasure of queer people, or even just push the oppressors into a courtroom before kneeling down to lick their spray tanned boots. This is America. Land of the cowards.

[–] OrteilGenou 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry what's the joke about 'corporations are people'?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Mitt Romney was a corporate raider before getting into politics. He ran for US president in the 2012 campaign, and in 2011 he told some hecklers that "corporations are people, my friend" and it's been clowned on ever since, even though the government treats it as true when it benefits corporations.

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