The thing One of the things I hate about this shit is, it's hard to tell if these people are malicious, or retarded malicious and retarded.
Cancel culture is just the norm now, sadly. Free speech isn't. Is this companies just doing what's expected of them, companies being insufferable woke bastards, or some combination. Regardless, fuck 'em.
Also, I called this. Everyone's in on it, this is coming from NGOs and governments, as well as private (bad) actors. Russell Brand has been on the list for now, and they've finally sent the first wave of actual goons after poking at him with a stick for a while.
Here's (one of) the stupid fucking things. These companies are under no obligation to kick anyone off (except under rare circumstances where someone is actually barred by a court from accessing the internet, which I think is almost always bullshit anyway, unless they're actually in prison at the time) of their platforms. Russell Brand could actually be convicted of rape and sent to jail (he won't be), and Rumble could still say..."Well, his content isn't breaking any rules on our site.
Off-site rules are evil. Again, outside of specific circumstances. If I was a company, and someone was using their same persona on another platform, and he was actively advocating for people to go around raping people, or something, yeah, I can understand wanting to distance myself from that person. Other than that, if you're not breaking rules on my hypothetical site, I don't care. Convicts still have rights...much less a celebrity being accused by the media smear campaigns about shit that happened decades ago.
TL;DR: Companies pulling ads over this are prime bitches, and either hate or don't understand freedom and our country.
Eh, the phrase "useful idiots" get's thrown around a lot. And we know how invasive these pests are. Not trying to simp for companies, but point is, not all of them are necessarily actively woke. Some of it could be essentially HR nonsense, and not coming from the very top. Doesn't absolve them and, like I said, regardless of their reasons, their lack of standing up for basic American freedoms is to absolutely be condemned.
So, yes, the corporations deserve blame, absolutely. But I don't think they're the final ones pulling the strings. They're dancing to Blackrock/Vanguard/ESG/DIE/etc.'s tunes, and those organizations are dancing to tunes of even more shadowy players.
Again, not simping for them or anything, but they're playing within the current system, is my point. Which is what makes it so frustrating; the current system incentivizes (and incentives at the highest level of the corporate world are essentially compulsions) cancerous and anti-American actions.
The thingOne of the things I hate about this shit is, it's hard to tell if these people are malicious, orretardedmalicious and retarded.Cancel culture is just the norm now, sadly. Free speech isn't. Is this companies just doing what's expected of them, companies being insufferable woke bastards, or some combination. Regardless, fuck 'em.
Also, I called this. Everyone's in on it, this is coming from NGOs and governments, as well as private (bad) actors. Russell Brand has been on the list for now, and they've finally sent the first wave of actual goons after poking at him with a stick for a while.
Here's (one of) the stupid fucking things. These companies are under no obligation to kick anyone off (except under rare circumstances where someone is actually barred by a court from accessing the internet, which I think is almost always bullshit anyway, unless they're actually in prison at the time) of their platforms. Russell Brand could actually be convicted of rape and sent to jail (he won't be), and Rumble could still say..."Well, his content isn't breaking any rules on our site.
Off-site rules are evil. Again, outside of specific circumstances. If I was a company, and someone was using their same persona on another platform, and he was actively advocating for people to go around raping people, or something, yeah, I can understand wanting to distance myself from that person. Other than that, if you're not breaking rules on my hypothetical site, I don't care. Convicts still have rights...much less a celebrity being accused by the media smear campaigns about shit that happened decades ago.
TL;DR: Companies pulling ads over this are prime bitches, and either hate or don't understand freedom and our country.
The danger here is that the companies themselves might not even be the ones that are deciding to pull the ads, but the ad agencies themselves that are explicitly partisan
What would be forcing them to use those companies?
Ease of use for doing all the marketing activities at a much cheaper price
There is no competition with the oligarchs. Any that compete get purchased or put out of business.
Never assume anything that benefits leftists is anything but pure malice.
Eh, the phrase "useful idiots" get's thrown around a lot. And we know how invasive these pests are. Not trying to simp for companies, but point is, not all of them are necessarily actively woke. Some of it could be essentially HR nonsense, and not coming from the very top. Doesn't absolve them and, like I said, regardless of their reasons, their lack of standing up for basic American freedoms is to absolutely be condemned.
So, yes, the corporations deserve blame, absolutely. But I don't think they're the final ones pulling the strings. They're dancing to Blackrock/Vanguard/ESG/DIE/etc.'s tunes, and those organizations are dancing to tunes of even more shadowy players.
Again, not simping for them or anything, but they're playing within the current system, is my point. Which is what makes it so frustrating; the current system incentivizes (and incentives at the highest level of the corporate world are essentially compulsions) cancerous and anti-American actions.