• context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    3 months ago

    ugh, he goes on to say that what makes them not capitalist is their willingness to work with the government to obtain profits. a true capitalist knows that working with the government is bad, so the problem is that wall street and big businesses are run by "corporatists" instead of ideologically committed capitalists who shun ill gotten government profits.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      People who define corporatism as a separate entity from capitalism ought to be shot into the sun.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      There is no such thing as ill gotten profits under capitalism. If someone gives you free money with zero consequences if you misuse it, you would have to be an utter idiot to not take it. It’s why the same people complaining about crony capitalism made an LLC in 2020 and got a bunch of PPP loans and never had to pay them back.

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        3 months ago

        kubrick-stare true capitalists care about the source of their profits!

        margaret-thatcher money is fungible, you nitwit! no we dont!

    • homhom9000 [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Would be hilarious if this picked up on the right and they all decoupled themselves from the government to prove they're the real capitalist. Too bad ben doesn't seem to have that much influence anymore.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        They did try that libertarian township but they couldn't agree on garbage disposal and were invaded by bears.

        The bears won.

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        3 months ago

        his funding is from fracking billionaires, mainly, so their goal is to gut the epa and environmental regulations generally. i guess he has enough of an audience to keep funding him, but i wonder if they've started pulling tighter on the purse strings lately.

        • ryepunk [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          They probably could be profitable without their sugar daddy. But they would have to make serious cutbacks, like they couldn't pay all the talent millions of dollars a year. It would actually have to worry about staff as well, they couldn't just rely on overpaying people for a year before they quit in disgust at being a part of such a heinous organization that is basically against everyone except extreme right wing religious positions.

          So basically daily wire would implode without the buckets of cash they are handed. Oh also they couldn't afford to buy shit loads of ad space across all of social media if they were limited by subscriber donations. Which means they couldn't find more people watch because meema isn't seeing ad clips on Facebook video anymore.

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        Too bad Ben doesn't seem to have much influence even more

        Why do you say this? All of these culture warrior ghouls are backed by some of the richest people in America

        • homhom9000 [she/her]
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          3 months ago

          Not monetary influence but cultural. A lot of his base became more radical and moved on to something else so he's just a drop in the whole sphere.

    • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/ben-shapiro-4983988403

      PPP Loans were what then?

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      I wonder what his opinion is on zionist real estate companies selling land being conquered by the government Israeli military