Here's a great example of #Leftist politics being incredibly myopic.
#Corporate#Pride is nonsense, sure. However, the critique of it is wildly off base.
#Corporations are no people. They are, basically, #AI. They respond only to incentives. The reason they are promoting pride in the first place is to make money.
So, one way they make money is with good #PR. They are trying to spend money to buy good will.
These actions have positive knock on effects. It normalizes being #Queer in a way that is incredibly broad. So, it is a positive for #LGBTQ people.
They naturally get criticism from conservatives, but the cost is worth it to them for the good will.
Then come along people who are the exact target of the ads in the first place complaining about the exact same ads.
The result is predictable. Over and over again I see people this year saying the lack of pride merch, ads, etc from corporations this year is chilling.
What the fuck did you think was going to happen? It's a corporation, and it responds entirely and only to incentives. That means it should be praised for anything positive it does and critiqued for anything negative it does.
Expecting a corporation to celebrate pride "because it's right" is a fundamental category error, as is expecting a corporation to be consistent with its policies. Corporations aren't moral agents, they are machines which are naturally incentivized to maximize evil.
#Inflation soared under President #Biden in 2021 & 2022, as the #economy emerged from the #pandemic recession [that began under Trump]. Its causes were complex, including snarled #SupplyChains, stimulative policies by the #FederalReserve &, to a degree, federal fiscal policies incl’ing #Covid relief bills signed by #Trump &…Biden.
What #Republicans call “Bidenflation” has become one of the president’s biggest liabilities in his rematch w/ #Trump. In response, #Biden has sought to simultaneously cheer #progress in #stabilizing or bringing down #prices — #growth has slowed sharply from a yr ago — while acknowledging the pain #voters still feel in their pocketbooks.
Biden has also attacked #corporations for pricing practices in certain sectors such as meatpacking, snack foods, concert tickets & gasoline.
"What are we to make of the fact that Trump can be re-elected, that the Supreme Court is full of reactionary fanatics, and Congress isn't acting on the will of the American people? For starters, we have a political system that acts like a dam, blocking the 'main stream' of where this country is today. …
Our political system has been rigged by corporate lobbyists, lawmakers, and judges to hold public office hostage to big money—intentionally excluding the working-class majority from its rightful place at America’s policy table."
#POTUS Biden will champion a new Microsoft #Artificial Intelligence investment in #Wisconsin on Wedn — showcasing the failed #economic commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a #job-rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.
Wielding a golden shovel, #Trump touted the #Foxconn flat-panel display factory as evidence of a broad #manufacturing revival stirred by his 2017 TaxCut which rewarded the [#wealthy & #corporations] & #tariffs on imported steel. “You know, 18 months ago this was a field, & now it’s one of the most advanced places of any kind you’ll see anywhere in the world. It’s incredible,” Trump crowed.
“As far as I'm concerned, corporations who use advertising and marketing dollars to pound their chests about their trendy brand purpose cause-du-jour, but employ legions of lawyers to avoid the true cost of improving society are nothing but scum.” The Ad Contrarian #tax#corporations#taxcorporations
Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum offer a list of 50 prominent corporations that have donated $23,273,400 to campaigns and PACs of election deniers since January 6, 2021. "Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft."
Privately-managed giant corporations are very bad for society. Such giant entities should not be managed by a few people, for the benefit of a few people, because they affect everyone.
They should be managed by society, for the good of society.
#POTUS Biden on Mon called for major new spending initiatives to lower costs for #healthcare, #ChildCare & #housing & enough new taxes on the wealthy & major corporations to pay for those proposals & also shave $3 trillion off the #NationalDebt over the next decade.