I know some people are boycotting US businesses during the current administration, but the same mindset has ripple effects here in the EU. In other words: stay vigilant!
Corporations are not our friend. They love money above all. And they constently need to make more money. And. And more. How much money is enough? More.
As “woke” has died in the U.S., the spiritual guide of the western world (🤮), companies are fast to follow their lead.
Honestly it is quite bizarre that despite everything people still believe capitalism can save us, when it is evident that it can only kill us and while it is at it will take most life on earth with it.
Time to wake the fuck up and kill capitalism.
Capitalism was a failed experiment that should have ended in the 1920s but it served certain people well to keep it going, so they popped it up, rather than letting it die. So now we have this stupid hybrid system where it’s capitalism, but only until capitalism fails. Then suddenly it’s socialism time, but only for businesses, until they feel like they can cope again.
Exactly. It’s not capitalism, it’s crony capitalism that sucks. Big business and government in cooperation is bad for us all. Truly free markets will still produce dickhead corporations, but competition allows good businesses to compete and give consumers better options.
Idc, doc, capitalism in general necessitates cronyism – because capitalism dictates that profit goes before people.
Which has time and time again shown to be a dick to people.
Maybe. But like democracy being a terrible system, it’s still better than the alternatives.
Eh, I feel like horizontal decentralised planning would work better, where people tell what their needs are and the day-to-day administration (which is tasked with exclusively doing that task, and cannot increase its power) then does so.
For example, take a small town somewhere. It has no bus stops, schools, or such.
Under capitalism, flight would continue; the doctor leaves, and even the grocery store too; and we get a ghost town eventually.
Under central planning or a mixed-market economy, the flight would mostly be halted. But this comes at the cost of a lack of input and choice. It is up to the central committees whether the town can continue to exist, or not.
Under decentralised planning such as in anarchocommunism, however, people give their direct input to what they need, and in return the administration must act accordingly. Thus a bus stop might be built; a school, and so on.
It’s megacorporations that rule law and decide, we are since years back in a hyper capitalist suicid extinction event. Those who do the bidding of any megacorp today are cells of a demonic post human entity and wish upon humanity death. Surely somehow we can wake people back, land on Earth again, travel and eat without carbon dioxide so that the taiga can avoid being set ablaze in a few years and our doom sealed to forever. We have to stop avoiding the speciecide class war culture that decides fantastic and impossible idioms that you must follow, like eat milk and meat to grow or that you must give up your values to a hypnosis machine or several, or maybe if only you give the firm more than the required wake hours so that you can buy a fucking insane metal monstrosity to travel inside that weighs several tonnes, because it is safer apparently to accelerate a several ton air conditioning human payload missile to hundreds of kilometers per hour and then measure how many second that took as the variable that should stimulated your geniala slightly more, than to travel together with strangers coated in god knows what pathogens? We cannot help but form a mass psychosis ever since media trained zealots are allowed to serve children corporate propaganda on a regular basis. No lobbyists that serve nature, or humanity are allowed in the death chambers high command. Only the most vile homicide designers on the planet are psycopathic and dominant enough to work actively on the slaughter of our entire species yet nobody rise from the sofa to stop them as if that was the plan all along; to just lobotomize the cattle so the machine gets it easier with the grinding of swaths of human collectives, cultures being unmade and live on as bonemeal for the ultimate end of their offspring, no say in life or death equal.
I agree. I think our biggest fuck up is thinking we own the place and do whatever without any consequences. Disgusting.
And I think a big part of the problem is the psychology of group behaviour compared to individual behaviour. We can be far less moral in groups, by compartmentalising morality onto “someone else” in the group. I’m not sure that any other system can help us address that aspect of group psychology.
Humans being social animals surely does play a big factor into controlling us, thats for sure.
While this is true of public companies privately held companies have more flexibility.
If the Kristiansens wanted to they could direct the firm to be more inclusive. In this case it’s not “the company” making the choice, it’s the Kristiansen family and you can point directly to their need for money.
It’s a sort of anti Brussels effect, I suppose: When fascism has infected the US, it starts spreading everywhere else, too.
My response to this is always…Putin really needs to die
After which someone worse will take his place and continue the same shit
What Russia needs is a fucking revolution full 1917 style where they murder the shit out of all oligarchs and setup a functional democracy
You think the bolsheviks should try again?
Maybe the second time it’ll work?
No. like I said, Russia needs to become an actual representative democracy. Nobody needs one extremist dictatorship replaced by another
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“and then it got worse”
This isn’t going anywhere. Climate change will make sure of that.
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More astroturfed than homemade, but yeah. I mean Hitler cited Ford as an inspiration and gave him an award in 1940 something. It’s been gross for a long time.
pootin Thinks otherwise.
While the US always had fascists, they have been embolstered by Russian propaganda, and people who aren’t fascists have been brainwashed into thinking it isn’t worse than using pronouns.
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In the context of power and money, absolutely. Although the fascism is being generated beyond the US too: fossil fuel companies are considered to be the main proponents of disinformation to destroy social cohesion against minorities, for example.
While I’m 100% in favor of diversity and inclusion, I think there was a bit of a fever over it in corporate land over the last several years. I also don’t think it actually amounted to a whole lot. I’m not one of those people who got sick of hearing about it, or complained about it, but I’m also not sorry to see most of it go. It doesn’t mean discrimination is back on the menu. It’s hard to describe how much performative crap was happening. Just doing cartwheels to show how inclusive we are. We literally had sensitivity training that told us to stop using the phrase “long time no see,” because some might construe it as a mocking imitation of a Native American stereotype speech. I mean seriously, you can’t tell me it’s either THAT or FASCISM with nothing between.
Grand. That means this thing will probably be a real product within a decade. 😩
Not buying from companies that bow to MAGA racism.
Also, I’m still waiting for bricks made from recycled plastic rather than new oil.
I am not trying to invalidate your comment, but saying that is like trying to boycott goods and services from China.
I haven’t heard of China having DEI programs, so I doubt MAGA racism is part of US-China trade talks.
Fucking cowards.
Another company that doesn’t need to, cow-towing to the cowardly cunt in the White House. Or is it the kitsch Gold House now?
Omg 😂😂😂 ive been calling it the gold leaf house recently
Profits before ethics.
Shame, I expected better of them.
LEGO: No guns
STAR WARS: These are blasters
LEGO: OK. Give us the money.
Oriental Expedition had guns. Pistols and rifles.
The Pirate theme had guns.
Exo-Force was literally riddled with guns.
Indians Jones…
The “No Guns!” rule is more like a loose suggestion.
My understanding was that it was a “no modern weapons” thing. That is, pre-1900 weapons were “acceptable”, hence why the pirates and wild west sets could have guns, but the police sets do not. To my (absolutely non-expert) knowledge, Indiana Jones sets only had revolvers, a pre-1900 technology. As I recall, there was a bit of controversy when they released the Sopwith Camel (a WWI-era fighter plane, i.e. post-1900) set with machine guns on it.
The Star Wars sets have fantasy weapons, not real modern weapons. Why that or a revolver should be seen as meaningfully different from a modern gun is, evidently, left as an exercise for the consumer. In any case, clearly the stricture has been relaxed over the years.
They also release DC and Marvel sets with guns. Sure, the super villains have fantasy weapons, but the goons have pistols and uzis.
It’s a weird and arbitrary line to draw anyways, if they really do at the 1900s. Bullet go swoosh and person dead. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cowboy rifle.
It’s also weird they’re fine with swords, maces, warhammers, spears, crossbows, and pole-arms since they’re literal weapons made for murder, dismemberment, gutting, and otherwise turning a human into human’t.
It’s funny with Bionicle back in 2001 because you have this warrior of fire with a flaming sword that is described as being able to lay waste and cause devastation at an impressive scale, but nope. Oh no. That’s not a weapon, that’s a “Toa tool”.
Then 2006 came along and even Bionicles were given straight up guns.
Lego’s had guns and other weapons since waaaay before they started making Star Wars sets.
I think they’ve reached the point of being a huge corporation where they no longer have any morals beyond whatever makes them money. They sell pride sets when acceptance is profitable, and now they’re cool with giving JK Rowling money to hurt trans people if it means they’ll see a few bucks from it.
Accenture is an Irish consultancy firm that did the same.
Is it actually an Irish company, or just one of those Irish companies in the same way Apple is an Irish company?
It’s a global conglomerate
You’re right: https://diversity.com/post/accenture-dei-rollback-2025
It’s a similar timeline too (~2025). I honestly think it’s very pathetic of them to stoop so low for the “Yankee dollar” (or any other trade relationship).
The oligarchy transcends borders
That’s what they are doing. I am amazed that no one from outside has yet pointed finger and warned about Heritage Foundation’s attempt to influence Europe. They want to see the world burn, literally.
Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organisation and should be treated as such.
money is fungible
Really Denmark?
If they suddenly care what Americans think they should just go ahead and rename the system “legos”.
😂
They didn’t change. They just don’t pretend any more.
Fuck Lego. What does the k’nex annual report say?
K’nex appear to be owned by “Basic Fun!”, a U.S. company. Unlike LEGO I can’t find any social obligations that they’ve committed to in the past. https://www.basicfun.com/about/
That’s a great article. I didn’t know there were so many alternatives (eight in that article).
Welp, fuck Lego too I guess. I hope at least some of their fans vote with their wallet and choose new hobbies a little less supportive of fascism.
As if I could afford any to begin with.
That would be assuming most corporations care about idealogies.
LEGO would sell their toys in Nazi countries simply to make money. Like any other corp, that’s the one and only thing that matters.
Anyway, knock-off LEGO has become just as good as the real thing these days, but significantly cheaper to buy. Perhaps better, since knock-offs often have colours LEGO doesn’t.
Yes, I’m sure the Chinese companies that create those are much better when it comes to human rights and diversity.
I didn’t say that. When did I say that? XD
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Give it a couple more years and they’ll be making Noah’s Ark and Golgotha play sets. Oligarchs have no shame about virtue signaling to whoever holds the brass ring.
Noah’s Ark
I think that would be cool.
I’d prefer a Marx revolution set.
