• Clark@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Why are big companies like Google and Microsoft supportive for leftists if leftists in the USA want to destroy capitalism? It’s weird.

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      They support liberalism, not leftism.

      They like making a big deal out of their tokenistic support of LGBT/BIPOC/etc, to distract from them trampling over workers rights.

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        They support liberalism

        No they don’t. They only support making money and cornering markets for themselves. They’ll take corporate socialism and using the law to crush opinions. The idea that they “support” anything ideological is utterly wrong.

        Anticipating somebody’s response:

        Exactly. You just described liberalism.

        No I didn’t. Corporations have no ideology. It’s pure warfare and there are no rules or values beyond making money for themselves, not on any larger societal scale. They’re just algorithms for increasing profit.

        to distract from them trampling over workers rights.

        100% yes

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      Man could you imagine if we had Google/MS bucks behind us? Instead it’s like 30 people with $2 between us.

      Google and Microsoft do not support the left at all.

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        With all that money against leftists, leftists couldn’t race head to head with the right wing in the USA. So I don’t think they are against you either.

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        Because they all support diversity, equity, woke etc, which are leftist movements in the USA. They advertise for positions always stating these movements. Why do you think they support the right wing?

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          Corporations support whichever way the wind is blowing. They don’t care about ethics, they care about money.

          For a long time in the western world, diversity was considered good PR, so that’s what they did. It builds up as corporations compete with each other to be the most diverse, the most as you might call it ‘woke’.

          Now since the wind in the US is blowing the other way, some western corporations are following suit, some will follow the EU’s lead and keep diversity but at a lower level.

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      They support identity politics to keep people at each others’ throats (divide and conquer by identity) while cloaking themselves in empty rhetoric (nominal “support”) that makes them look moral but accomplishes nothing beyond identity-division.

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        That makes sense but I have always related them with the USA leftists as they support LGBT, woke, Palestine supporters. Just one time Microsoft supported Israel for a very short period but other than that… But what you say wasn’t something I considered. I will keep it in mind

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      They aren’t. Your question has no valid answer because the assumption it presupposes is false.