@Daojoan

<< Tim Cook who is letting his company resume advertising on X despite its owner's public embrace of Nazism while donating to Trump's inauguration faster than you can say "courage" – his favorite word when removing headphone jacks, apparently less applicable when removing his backbone. >>

a great text!

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@Daojoan I think you have this backwards. Those megacorps never stood behind those values that they preached. They stood behind them because it made money. Years ago there was a comparison between russian and other social media accounts of those megacorps. Only in america and europe they changed the profile pic to the one with rainbow.

And now the cost of doing business will skyrocket if they keep the DEI and LGBT+ stuff.

@Daojoan
From the article:

"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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@Daojoan this was fantastic writing.

From a distance these guys seem invincible, but the signs of petty ego are everywhere. Most of us remember the days of Steve Jobs cult. Even just things like Bob Iger writing about moral leadership...every time this class opens their mouths in public it's to lionise themselves, but most of them know to keep it to business circles where flatterers live and honest people don't.

Keep calling them cowards, it's the best pain point we have to push back.

@Daojoan
They were never values, it was always only political correctness. Corporations have only one value, "make more money".

Political correctness got a new definition, so the tunes they are playing and the texts they are singing to the tunes have changed. And they had all the time from November to prepare new versions of the corporate guidance documents what is politically correct now.

@Daojoan You're a bit late to the party, America. The exact same thing happened in Europe 90 years ago. And to this day most corporations in Germany are suspiciously quiet about their history between 1933 and 1945.

Capitalists do not care about anything other than profit, they never have and they never will. They will say whatever makes them popular in the moment.

See also Cory Doctorow's latest post about premature anti-facists.

@Daojoan I don't think anyone ever believed Iger to be more than a money-grubbing scumbag.

Cook was a surprise. Openly gay CEO, philanthropist, long-term supporter of the Democrats, and...fascist supporter?

I guess you don't become a billionaire by having any ethics or morals to commit to.