Yeah, these guys went after Exxon a few months ago. Well, technically it was a fund backed by the California pensions, but BlackRock and Vanguard got on board and had an unbeatable voting bloc.
Passive funds should not be allowed to vote. It’s fucking ridiculous. Between BR, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity you basically have a voting bloc that can do whatever the fuck they want to big corporations.
The thing about ESG is it mashed together a bunch of unrelated shit and then tries to create some sort of score for a company. Companies have very little ability to materially move the needle on environmental shit (e.g. if you’re Coke you’re gonna use a fuckton of plastic and oil moving product around for the foreseeable future) so they are going really hard into the “social” component of ESG. For that to have an effect, they must continue to push a narrative about how awful it is for non-whites, gays, women, etc. and show how committed to social change they are. It’s a helluva lot of easier for a company with a massive environmental impact like Coke, Amazon, GM, The Southern Company or UPS to do that than change their business in a way that makes it environmentally friendly.
I had a commie prof in college who was actually a pretty brilliant guy (though I disagreed with him on a lot). He made us read Noam Chomsky, another commie/near commie. Chomsky developed a theory in the ‘80’s called “The Propaganda Model” where he laid out several of the points this guy made in the video.
You guys should look up the propaganda model. The US mass media makes much more sense when you have that framework for thinking about it. We need more Americans to wake up to it. I seriously thought it was preposterous when I first heard it but I dusted off my Chomsky book from college not long ago and was thinking “holy fucking shit” as I read through it.
It lays out the model and then goes into a few specific examples of the MSM creating “worthy and unworthy victims” and a detailed discussion of “legitimate versus meaningless” elections on the basis of whether US interests were able to rig the election or not. The book is from 1988 and could be rewritten today using modern examples because it’s so on point.
People under 40 or 45 have no clue how bad the major cities were prior to the enactment of the crime bill in the early ‘90’s. I am not a fan of Biden or Bill Clinton but that bill is massively responsible for making American cities decent places (with the exception of certain neighborhoods). The leftists are going to return us to that era where the cities are uninhabitable for decent people.
Amen and awomen, xir. The modern totalitarian left might actually be worse than the Maude Flanders archetype from the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.
I remember watching those peoples’ power wane and then being horrified as it was clear the Tipper Gore/Hillary faction was ushering in a new “wrap the kids in bubble wrap” mentality that every minivan driving soccer mom bought into hook, line and sinker.
There’s a school of thought that the lack of actual gore in violent movies contributes to violence because kids grow up seeing that shit and don’t realize how fucking awful stabbing or shooting someone actually is. Hard to prove one way or the other, but it’s an interesting theory.
My son watched some green lantern content and is interested in green lantern now. I want to get him some comic books to work on his reading. I conduct due diligence before buying him anything and was going to buy him some old comics (I don’t want to buy new because I know these companies are all woke as shit). In researching green lantern there seem to be many stretches of wokeness creeping into the arc.
Does anyone have suggestions for a run of green lantern that is cheap and not full of bullshit? I don’t know shit about comics.
You can’t control what others do, but you can control what you do. Some things can’t be boycotted, like when your electric company doles $10 million to BLM.
Live your life by a simple rule - try your hardest not to give money to people who hate you.
I haven’t bought an EA game since Madden 25. I canceled Amazon in January and haven’t used it or been to Whole Foods since then. I used Gillette razors since they sent me a free razor in the ‘90’s but switched when they went woke and stopped buying Tide, Charmin and Bounty as well when they went woke. I quit religiously watching NFL in 2016 or thereabouts.
There are some things that are unavoidable, but there are plenty you can control.
I lived in NYC about 20 years ago. My brother was friends with this Jamaican lady who had a decent face and a massive bubble butt. I went to their office one night after work and we walked like six blocks to get drinks.
I’m not a prude or anything but the things I heard men (none white or Asian) say to this woman were unconscionable. My mother would smother me with a pillow if she saw me talk to a woman that way. And trust me, it wasn’t like a random one off thing for this lady, it was like every 30 feet.
She had a big mouth to return volleys, too. One guy was asking “why you walking with them white boys?” And she immediately dropped “white boys have jobs and aren’t sitting on a stoop yelling at women all day - you should try it sometime.”
A dowry was paid by a bride’s father. It was a token of gratitude and resource sharing, plus it severed the woman’s interest in her father’s estate because at common law a woman couldn’t own property. It wasn’t some simp buying a woman.
It’s an attempt to create a level of self government and control. I suspect the theory is “hey, we blast any asset that Hamas uses and eventually people will weed out Hamas.” Given the propaganda techniques in use I think it is unlikely to work.
“With no one who had ancestry from high altitudes or harsh northern climates, nor anyone who had heard Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the group did not anticipate the change in weather that rolled in the final week of September. When the first snow hit in October the group ceased communication with the outside world. A concerned friend then called the National Guard. The Guard passed over the space in a helicopter and noticed a base camp full of nothing but dead bodies clenching iPhones.”
I don’t agree with the guy’s politics, but his model is pretty good at explaining why the mass media is utter shit.