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This Is the Age of the Coward (www.theindex.media)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can't find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can't muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren't businesses making tough choices – they're paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

demonstrating that their much-touted values have all the staying power of a Snapchat message.

Does this author need help spelling "DUH?" Given that she managed to find her way to a keyboard, it seems impossible that she doesn't know corporate flags wave in whatever direction the current wind happens to be blowing. It makes perfect sense that the same companies that wrapped themselves in rainbows and Black Lives Matter banners are now kowtowing to nazis - unless she's dumb enough to think corporate gestures are ever sincere or genuine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

An author is writing to an audience, and surely you can't be surprised that there are larger-than-desired groups of people who actually do think corporations can act morally?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago

You're right, there are people who think corporations have morals, or that Donald Trump was sent by God to save us, or that the Earth is flat. That doesn't create a standard that praising such articles is the Right Thing and criticizing them is the Wrong Thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why attack one of the few journalist (?) author (?) actually calling the bullshit of corporations when the rest of them are just toeing the line and licking the boot?

This is literally why nobody cares about the common good, it's incredibly thankless

[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Because this thread is about this article by this author, and because people have been calling bullshit forever. Which makes them feel like they've actually done something when they haven't. "B-but it's raising awareness!" No it's not, it's just blowing off personal steam.

You know what's incredibly thankless? Caring enough about the common good to personally send out thousands of postcards urging Dems to vote, and seeing 10 million of them who voted for Biden in 2020 decide not to show the fuck up to vote for Harris in 2024. Because Genocide! Funny how nobody's talking about the ceasefire that took effect a couple days before Fuckface took office, which the Biden admin had been helping to negotiate during the election while pouty little shits were folding their arms and standing on their righteous moral pedestals and calling them nazis. Don't even try to lecture me about thankless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I always find it very telling when people get mad at those who decided that they couldn't stomach voting for genocide, instead of getting mad at the party that ran on a pro-genocide platform.