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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Corporate takeover of the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.

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ranmagender · 2 years

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Its rumored EA is being bought by Amazon and that its gonna be announced soon.

I hate Amazon. I hate mergers. I hate acquisitions. I hate consolidation. I hate oligopoly. I hate capitalism. I hate lax anti-trust laws. i hate corporations. i hate capitalism.

#capitalism #ea #i dont like ea but i hate this #gaming #video games #amazon #corporations #anti-trust laws #amazon luna

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demigoddessqueens · 7 months

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The writing strike having a tentative deal, the SAG still going strong, and the FTC is now suing Amazon??? 👍👍🙌🙌👏👏👏👏

#support the wga #i stand with the wga #wga strike #wga solidarity #wga strong #sag aftra #sag strike #sag aftra strike #sag after strong #sag afra strike #get fucked Jeff bezos!!#Amazon #ftc #the ftc #pro union #anti trust laws #union solidarity #union strong #support unions

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hussyknee · 9 months

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I need someone to explain the Banana Discourse on Twitter in small words. I might be wrong, but far it looks like an argument between

Western communists deciding the economic reorganization of South America towards "self-sufficiency" by taking away the USAmerican demand for bananas, and

White liberals insisting that South America is better off with the US buying bananas from them because collapsing the industry (somehow) would take away jobs.

Because boycotts totally work, nobody else eats bananas, those are the only two options, and South American people don't have any opinions about their own economy. Pick your imperialist.

Edit: Just found out the discourse is because "we must give up bananas for the good of South American socialism" lady brought up her cocaine habit as evidence that she wasn't moralizing pleasure. On being told that the cocaine trade fuels violent crime by drug cartels across South America, she tweeted:

The nightmares of bananas and cocaine production have nothing on the take industry by the hell nexus between white women and Tankies.

#i've deleted all the posts I've reblogged by that Marxist guy #also like...you realize you can talk about multinational corporations human rights violations #and the need for tighter regulations‚ anti-trust laws #and ecological conservation help #without making it all about whether US consumerism is good or bad right?? right???#anti communist #western leftists #tankies #imperialism #colonialism #american exceptionalism #ethnocentrism #twitter discourse #knee of huss

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planetoflovers · 4 months

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I think it’s so funny seeing Jason Todd stans try to rationalise extrajudicial murder. Like if you think Jason taking on the role of judge, jury and executioner is an adequate way of getting rid of crime good for you but I refuse to take that notion seriously

#like for all intents and purposes he’s basically a cop #I saw a post saying how gotham citizens see red hood as being more effective than batman and I had to restrain myself from responding #ppl did not trust batman when he first came unto the scene it’s only when they saw that he was working within the law and advocating for-#goons to give up crime and turn their lives around that ppl became less distrusting of him #imagine if Batman came onto the scene guns blazing and killing everyone he deemed to be a criminal the gcpd would have had him put down #dc comics #Jason Todd #anti jason todd

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vonehrenfest · 7 months

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DCxDP: Dead guys stick together

(A Batman 138 fix-it)

After Bizarro becomes King of Hell he watches the mortal world and is distraught to find that his brother/best friend/sorta father-figure has been hurt very badly and is calling out for help.

Distraught, he goes to another lord of the netherworld who he's heard has access to a portal (and subjects a bit more compatible with the act of helping someone). He asks King Phantom would he please please help him protect his brother/friend, and if he does Bizarro will owe him a favor and leave his realm alone.

When the inferno had initially breached the Ghost Zone Danny had thought he was going to have to deal with f*cking Trigon again, but as it turns out that guy's been replaced and the new guy is pretty nice. After a brief cosmic battle and a clearing of misunderstandings, Danny agrees to Bizarro’s request.

While Gotham's vigilante civil war continues on its rooftops, Jason is in a cell. He is trembling, practically catatonic again, and losing his mind. He’s seeing the flaming figure of a knight on horseback appear from the shadowy far wall of his room, like some kind of fairytale nightmare version of Batman. It takes a while for Jason to realize he’s talking.

“... part of the treaty between the King of Ghosts and King of Demons, Jason Todd: Prince of Demons has been granted special status and is henceforth a protected and honorary citizen of the Infinite Realms.”

Nightmare-Bruce touches his flaming sword on Jason’s shoulder and the unearthly fire instantly engulfs him. Relief washes through Jason, and it’s so strong he nearly drops asleep.

Bruce is apologetic when everything’s over and he realizes the mistakes he’s made... but nothing really changes. (It is a relief to Bruce that no one died or was permanently injured, Jason's condition resolved itself somehow, and Bruce is normal now so really everything is fixed or at least it will be fixed.)

Just like when Jason first came back from the dead, Bruce's response makes him hurt deeper than the physical torture itself. Jason is the one who died but Bruce acts like the ghost. Singleminded, possessive, stuck in time and blind to it; bound to repeat the same cycles again and again. Jason is the ghost but he's died multiple times now, and maybe that's kind of like living and maybe that means he can move on.

Dani and Bizarro become friends, and she gets Danny's friend Tucker to somehow set up a working Wi-Fi connection in hell so they can all play games together. (He’s not going to question it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal. They helped him and they’re good to Bizarro, that’s all that matters.)

Jason forges a fake identity for Dani. He might ask Babs to make a better one for her if she ever needs it but he doubts that's likely. He hasn’t had a living identity for years now after all, he’s an old hand at fake identities. Dani is delighted and starts attending school soon after.

Danny has good friends, and as far as Jason can tell plenty of reliable mentors in the ghost world. You wouldn’t think it, but Jason’s less worried about Danny in his role as a little godling than in his civilian life. He’s got too much on his plate- too much power yet not enough to actually resolve his real issues. Not enough to protect himself where he’s vulnerable.

The “Guys in White” that Danny likes to complain about are concerning. So is the fact that Danny’s lives with mad-scientist parents who are trying to hunt down his alternate identity. So is his ever grinding cold-war with the mayor of his town… And something else too that had been niggling at the back of Jason’s mind ever since he’d first gotten to talk to these kids.

One day Danny’s sister, Jazz asks to talk to him. He’s an adult she says. That’s true he replies. He’s capable of protecting himself and other people, she says. Well, he has the training and experience for it, he agrees. If things go wrong, would Jason let Danny or Dani stay with him- just until she becomes a legal adult? She asks. Jason’s... not the sort of person who should be taking kids in. Danny saved his life though. He won’t say no. He says of course.

Jason knew it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal.

The town doesn’t technically exist- there are no maps that include it and even satellite imaging is corrupted where Danny describes his hometown is supposed to be. There are no references to it on the internet that couldn’t be referring to a totally different Amity Park elsewhere, and judging by the problems they occasionally had on gaming nights and the odd offhand remarks Danny and his friends sometimes made, it was looking extremely likely that all communications between Amity Park and the outside were being heavily censored. Before Jason knew it he had started a full-on investigation on the GIW, Mayor Vlad Masters, former Mayor Montez, and Axion Labs.

Hope and fear lodges itself in Danny’s chest. Jason’s an adult and he’s actually going to help.

#Batman 138 #Context for anyone unfamiliar:#This is the issue wherein Bruce injects a device into Jason that releases fear toxin when his heart rate rises in order to make him docile #I was horrified so I wrote something like a fix-it scenario and then I got ahead of myself and wrote a whole thing.#comics Bruce is really different from the animated Bruce I grew up with :(#I just want Jason to be safe and not have to be alone #this arc can go straight into Danny Jason and babs/birds of prey bringing the anti ecto laws to the JL #one of the major problems Danny faces is that he has good friends and good ghost mentors but he doesn’t have any real world adults #he knows his parents will love him no matter what but it’s clear he doesn’t trust them #he prefers them not to know even though he has faith they’ll still live him #love him I mean #dpxdc #Jason Todd adopts Danny #danny adopts jason #Gotham Wars

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onlytiktoks · 1 month

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hoediaz · 2 years

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thinking about how buck was the only one trying to see the best in jonah, that he didn’t want to believe that jonah could be evil in the same episode where taylor not only instantly believed in jonah’s evilness but was fascinated by it, and how buck has been trying to see the best in taylor since the second he met her but taylor has only ever pointed out the worst in him.

#911 spoilers #anti taylor kelly #text posts copy and pasted from the gc #but i'm thinking!!!#about how buck and taylor think they're the same for different reasons but they aren't at all #thinking about how buck tried to see the best in jonah and jonah kidnapped his brother in law and one of his best friends #about how buck trusted taylor to keep her word and she broke it #about how bt started with buck not trusting her -- no comment -- and it's ending with buck trusting her and having that trust betrayed

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dipodiidae · 1 year

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honestly my main problem with ai art/writing is more that people are going to use it as an excuse to further devalue art and underpay creatives because an ai can do it for cheaper (not that people dont already have to undersell themselves to get commissions)

#also the scummy shit people are doing where theyre requesting art in someones specific style and using it to complete sketch comms instead #of getting a full commission from the artist #in the end for me it just comes down to “are small artists going to get fucked by this”#which is why i also dont trust some of the anti ai art crowd wanting to tighten copyright laws because that never benefits anyone but corps

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psychicbluebirdmiracle · 6 months

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Joaquin Castro calls for federal probe of Warner Bros. over handling of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ | The Hill

WOAH THIS HAS ME SO INTRIGUED

Highly recommend yall take a look at this this is interesting it's about dang time

Also this is honestly a really good analogy for the shelving movies for tax wrote offs

#maybe we can finally get some justice for lockwood & co as well #probably not but i like to hope #important #wb #warner bros #discovery #anti trust laws #coyote vs acme #looney tunes #warner bros discovery #ftc #the justice department #look at them considering doing something for once awwww

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Joe Biden and anti-trust laws

#tiktok #anti-trust laws #Monopoly #vulture capitalism #joe biden #capitalism is a scam #reagan was a terrible president #ronald reagan #reagan #doom scroll break #FTC #DOJ #microsoft #xbox #x box

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pkgam · 7 months

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Confirmation: Google Only cares about the Adverts and Money, Not users

There were some leaks in regards to the Google Antitrust case and it's nice to finally see this in writing with a section of it:

"One document the company unsuccessfully tried to keep behind closed doors — Judge Amit Mehta made it public — involved a Google vice president bragging about how “addictive” the search giant’s services are, comparing them to tobacco and illicit drugs.

The executive, Michael Roszak, said that means Google is free to “mostly ignore the demand side” — i.e., consumers — in favor of “the supply side of advertisers, ad formats, and sales.” "

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Well well well... I wonder what all those naysayers/fanboys that blindly said Google listens and is trying to make the world a better place have to say now. I mean this is pretty sickening stuff. Like being proud of creating an addiction like alcohol and/or tobacco?... No wonder they want to keep this trial as secretive as possible: Because it'll make them look really bad. But I have a strong hunch we'll be seeing more leaks as time goes on. ;)

In any case, I for one am glad that I seen it long ago and only use the bare minimum of their stuff. I also don't adopt anything new (I use the term "new" loosely too because a lot of it is copies/buyouts) that they make because we all know they'll just shut it down later anyway. So I wonder if a lot of people picked up on that because they are no longer getting the widespread support for stuff like they used to. Or maybe people are tired of their crappy services in general and just use the bare minimum as well. Hard to say because there can be a lot of reasons. All I know is that their new stuff doesn't last long because of a lack of adoption and being unable to make profits. Which is good! Bad companies don't deserve to make money.

I guess if you still have to use their "services" and want to try and give them feedback on how to change things for the better, you've gotta throw in something that relates it with money so it has the best chance of not going in the proverbial paper shredder. But even then it's not guaranteed of course as they'll do whatever benefits "them" and not the users they claim to care about publicly while boasting about creating addictions privately.

Please spread the word on this. The more people who see them for who they are the better.

Your thoughts?

Thanks for reading and have a good one!

#google #antitrust #anti #trust #big #tech #user #users #feedback #trial #case #lawsuit #law #suit #consumer #consumers #anticompetitive #competitive #monopoly

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halchron · 8 months

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the mini history lesson I just learned after looking up stuff for tetchou's backstory is crazy

#✧ ━ ooc.#learned all about the rise of democracy and civil rights in japan and the feminist movement just now #very neat learning about the stages leading up to all this #especially pre and post ww2 #anyways the real tetchou was a part of advocating for democracy and he was actually born in a samurai family and all that #and I guess he was incarcerated for challenging the free press laws at the time which from what I gathered is just cenorship #of anti government publications / things that could “endanger public order and state security” which just means pro democratic stuff #I'll prob have to research it a bit more but trust this will be a part of bsd tetchou's backstory too

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1900scartoons · 10 months

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The Receivership Idea

July 14th, 1907

Policeman Kellogg pushes Harriman toward a 'receiver', a very whiskered man with a key to a jail cell.

The caption reads "Mr. Kellogg would place Mr. Harriman in the hands of a receiver."

Kellogg was a U.S. Prosecutor, who hoped to place government supervisors to regulate the trusts.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/6526/rec/194

#charles bartholomew #political cartoon #e.h. harriman #Frank Kellogg #anti trust law #american history #railroads

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hussyknee · 6 months

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#—is what we shall say as we unsubscribe from both #remember to boycott the House of Mouse friends #it's one of the most effective ways to protest for Palestine #also just make these fucks lose money until someone pushes an anti trust law through #because this amount of monopoly is frankly scary #we cannot become slaves of the Mouse it practically runs on DOD propaganda #eat the rich #capitalism #Twitter #funny tweets #laugh tag #crack #entertainment news #Disney #Hulu #TV shows #knee of huss

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rowanthestrange · 1 year

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probably a good time to state that I am fully committed to the creation of peace between russia and ukraine, and by peace i mean russia getting the fuck out of all the land they’re attempting to steal, returning all the children and others they’ve ‘repatriated’, providing all the funds necessary to rebuild everything including the half of ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure they’ve destroyed, and if i could magically give every ukranian a laser rifle to ensure that peace, so that russia never think of setting their jackboots across that line or any other country’s ever again, i absolutely fucking would

#and if you want to argue with me #no you don’t #i re-heally promise you that you don’t #there are horrors going on that you don’t know #and don’t need to #cus i unfortunately do #and you can trust me #the only way this ends is with russia stepping the hell back #because ok ’war is always evil’ lot you give them ukraine why not #i’ll indulge you #you’ve now given them a border with poland #the world’s /already tried/ giving into russia with crimea in 2014 #and guess what happened #they came back #would you feel the same if it was giving them finland?#are those people more real?#if people getting killed;tortured;r’d #is too much to really grasp - which is genuinely fair #do you want those people living under those anti lgbt+ laws?#don’t give in to russian propoganda #and american diabolism #just cus biden thinks defending ukraine is good don’t mean it’s bad #in haste to remember the usa can be evil don’t think it always is #and therefore the other side must be the good guys or have a point #the only way there will be real peace #is for russia to sit back down #it’s all anyone wants #i promise no-one thinks nuclear war’ll be good for the economy #/everyone/ is working for peace here except russia #which is working for people to no longer fight against them

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