If there's no dancing, it's not my revolution.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    This is the perfect combination of cringe, art and education to make it blow up among zoomers.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You can revolve if you want to

    You can leave your bourgeois behind

    But if you don't dance and if you don't dance

    You're no comrade of mine

    synth riffs

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They were kinda 1 hit wonders, honestly it's the only song by "Men Without Hats" I am familiar with

        • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          "The Men Who Wear Many Hats" did, however, produce a zombie video game and some very funny smut. Worth checking out.

  • BGDelirium [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Gives new credence to

    YOU CAN'T LAST MORE THAN 5 SECONDS

    I had to close it. Too cringe

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Okay weird dancing aside she has a good point, blackrock is having it's reputation laundered by neoliberals who're trying to hide from people who they really are and what they're up to. I see commercials for them all the time on CNN

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    2 months ago

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      8 days ago

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  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not very good information. Blackrock and Vanguard (and State Street, who manage the SPY index fund) dominate the index fund market, so they "own" a significant chunk of every tradable company, but that backs shares of ETFs and mutual funds which are actually owned by others. If I had to guess, I think most of the truly wealthy probably don't own much via index funds and mutual funds. Index funds and mutual funds probably skew to 401ks. The real assholes concentrate their ownership on a few things, rather than all companies equally, so they can get control of companies. Still most stock is owned by a small number of people and I think most shares of index funds are owned by a small number of people, and our obsession with post hoc justifications for the highest possible return to capital benefit a pretty small number of people immensely and you're probably not one of them.

    • ValpoYAFF [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that was my problem with the video too. However, it is worth noting that even though an individual might own a share of an exchange-traded mutual fund, they almost never receive any voting power. This isn't surprising, because it's basically like owning a fraction of a fraction of a share. What is worth wondering, however, is who gets the vote. Imo Blackrock and Vanguard do - it's not like they're secretly and evilly controlling the world's economy, but they do certainly tend to vote in the interests of their shares not dropping in value.

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Well, I sure can't sort all this nonsense out. Maybe God can? We can send this free marketplace of ideas over to Them.

      • WhatsonAir [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Ey, you the Stalin guy?

        Nations are bullshit, they ought not to exist, but countries and nations are confining political entities that still hold material power and it isn't that each actor in national borders plays a trick on us, it is just that their interests often, but not always align.

    • culpritus [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Huh? Do you know anything about free trade neoliberalism? Capital is unrestricted by nations in the 'free world'. That's the point as I understood it.