silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoMinnesota’s Biggest Companies Call for ‘De-escalation’ of Tensionswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1108arrow-down1external-linkMinnesota’s Biggest Companies Call for ‘De-escalation’ of Tensionswww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
These CEOs of these firms are largrly the same ones who lobbied to create the ICE we have now in exchange for tax breaks. 3M Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford is on the board of the Business Roundtable Hormel CEO Jeff Ettinger is on the executive board of the Meat Institute. Target belongs to the RATE coalition Allianz CEO Jasmine Jirele is on the board of the US Chamber of Commerce.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·edit-214 hours agoGeneral strikes work, and if you’re not in Minnesota this is basically a list of huge conglomerates not to buy from. It’s not even that they’re the ones fucking up. They’re just the only ones in our capitalist society with the political pressure to get shit done. We need to fix that, but to quote Heinlein: Of course the game is rigged, but if you never play you never win. Edit: Also, if you havent canceled prime yet they give a survey and you can say it’s due to their support of trump. You can’t trust name brand purchases due to fraud anymore, and the cheap stuff is on Temu/wish at 1/10th the price.
General strikes work, and if you’re not in Minnesota this is basically a list of huge conglomerates not to buy from.
It’s not even that they’re the ones fucking up. They’re just the only ones in our capitalist society with the political pressure to get shit done.
We need to fix that, but to quote Heinlein:
Edit:
Also, if you havent canceled prime yet they give a survey and you can say it’s due to their support of trump.
You can’t trust name brand purchases due to fraud anymore, and the cheap stuff is on Temu/wish at 1/10th the price.