• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    Literally just saying "the only proper way to exercise power is to be extremely rich"

    Also, the idea of a Woke Bain Capital is pretty funny. Just buying out all the most ghoulish corps to strip them for parts

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    94
    15 days ago

    It's astonishing rrealizing how much of American political thought is just this intense kayfabe of presenting a real political system while rigidly upholding the status quo at all costs.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      Now the anti union propaganda makes more sense. Because if you don’t want to be part of a union or be “at the table,” then they’ll make you believe that you won’t benefit at all from negotiations, thus it’s a waste of money and time. In reality even if you’re at the table, you’re relegated to a second thought.

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
    hexbear
    76
    15 days ago

    Investor activism is such a long and drawn out process and you are telling zoomers with no fucking money to pool together all their resources and compete against fucking Blackrock or Bain Capital?

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        13
        15 days ago

        And the willingness of the federal government to just do whatever the fuck it wants, violently, on the rare occasions someone "beats it" on paper.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    hexbear
    72
    15 days ago

    Imo instead of protesting Israel the students should purchase Israel more bombs so the country feels like it owes them something

    • Meh [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      33
      15 days ago

      Hello, I would like to buy one Israel, please. I'm shutting it down

  • TheDoctor [he/him, she/her]
    hexbear
    67
    15 days ago

    “Hello my fellow investors. I know we all want to make money, but have considered doing something significantly less profitable like not selling weapons?”

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    Voting power is proportional to shares owned aka how much money you have. The market cap of Lockheed Martin is $110B. Where are the students going to get the literal multi-10s-of-billions of dollars to acquire an activist-size stake? Like holy fuck this is so unbelievably stupid.

  • Greenleaf [he/him]
    hexbear
    61
    15 days ago

    Us communists should pool our money together, buy every stock on the stock market, then hand the companies over to the workers. Instant socialism! It’s brilliant, why didn’t we think of this before.

  • SubstantialNothingness [none/use name]
    hexbear
    53
    15 days ago

    Northrop has a market cap of 69.491B, Boeing 110B, and Lockheed 111B.

    Millennials have under 10% of wealth among generations in the US, and I can't even find data for Gen Z but these protesters are students mostly fresh out of high school. They don't have anywhere near the necessary amount of wealth, even if they pooled every penny that every one of them owns.

    These people are either not speaking in good faith, or are superbly incompetent. But that surprises no one, I'm sure.

    • NuraShiny [any]
      hexbear
      27
      15 days ago

      Ah come on, what can 290.491 billion dollars cost? Twenty dollars?

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    15 days ago

    Lmao the sheer out of touch ness on so many levels.

    "If you don't like a company, buy it!" Levels of stupid.

    Gotta love that these are the morons that gets to be professors in a capitalist system. Truly only the best teaching the next generation how to be stupid.

  • nasezero [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    46
    15 days ago

    Bit idea: blaming libs for not putting all of their money into the stock market when Biden loses

    "I see you spent $8 on a blue checkmark, when you could have spent that on a fractional share of Amazon stock and used your voting weight to give Biden a guest appearance on season 4 of The Boys smuglord "

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      15 days ago

      But he was already the main villain of season 3, libs were just completely oblivious to how Soldier Boy was a cross between brandon and hunter while chuds understand that Homelander is trump-drenched but they think him being portrayed as a fascist superman who kills people is based

  • Washburn [she/her]
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    15 days ago

    Do you know what happened to the rabbit who tried to change the wolf from the inside?

    It got digested.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
    hexbear
    37
    15 days ago

    The brainworms are so dense this professor turned into anti-Brer Rabbit:

    smuglord "You know what the wolf would really hate? If we were to throw a bunch of vegetables and seasoning into boiling water, then skin ourselves and jump in as well! lol, that wolf will never see it coming"