• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Fuck that guy and his cheap PR stunt.

    That’s about $50 per employee, for a company with $2.3 billion annual revenue and the CEO worth between $500 million and $2 billion.

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    Nothing of substance will change until the ultra wealthy fear the loss of their wealth and life. Those are the only two things they care about.

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    Protests do work… when the people on the receiving end of that message understand that ignoring them is a mortal liability.

    Protests stop working when they accomplish nothing and fail to escalate.

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    21 hours ago

    Remember, we wouldn’t be seeing this much half-assed astroturfing if the No Kings protests weren’t working.

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      I don’t know why people have such a hard time with the idea of a diversity of tactics.

      If you don’t think marches or whatever are effective, that’s fine. Do your own thing. But constantly shitting on what other people are doing really isn’t helpful.

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      “We know it’s working if people criticize it” is a great metric to use if you want to be fucking useless

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      Looks like I’m (EU) not up to date with how they’re working.
      Can you list maybe some of the concrete things it has achieved from your demands?
      Now I write this I realize, IDK what their demands are.

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    This sounds like someone wants other people to be violent for their mission. Protests do work people don’t know how to utilize them

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      The purpose of non-violent protests is us telling them “We’re being civil trying to get things done, if you ignore us for too long, we won’t stay civil.” It is NOTHING without the possibility of violence being a next step. When people started unionizing they’d drag out those running the business from their homes and harm them. They then started listening to them when they were being non-violent.

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      7 hours ago

      thanks Bernie.
      Let them do their Sunday walk harder for a few years so they can even vote harder next time

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      18 hours ago

      And he’s the CEO of a burger chain, not actively denying healthcare to millions for profit. $50 bonuses for everyone is pretty decent, imo.