Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge
#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution
corporations
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
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How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy
The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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People don't understand what corporations are
A corp is a legal contract They are entirely creations of govt. Corps exist for the good of the public. WHY ELSE would a democracy allow them?
Corps are not sentient entities. They do not "do" anything. Executives do.
Shareholders do not "own" a corp, they have a claim on its assets in a bankruptcy. (Often after lenders.)
You can't punish a corp. A fine only takes shareholder money. PUNISH EXECUTIVES for corp harms!
A subtoot: corporations, and corporate(-like) behavior, are political. Anyone claiming that corporate-like work is apolitical--work that includes business-friendly software development whether it occurs within the walls of a corporate entity or not--is either naive or deliberately obfuscating reality.
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
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All you Anarcho- #communists or Uber- #socialists or self righteous whatevers who live in countries with a #parliamentary system that allows you to vote for your impotent fringe party WHICH WILL NEVER RULE YOUR COUNTRY, how nice for you. We don't have that luxury (privilege) in the #US. Our system could be better, but not by demolishing it and hoping something idyllic grows out of the ashes. That is a fucking ridiculous pipe dream. If the US quasi- #democracy crumbles completely, it will be replaced by all those #corporations you hate so much, and they will have the US #military at their disposal, and you will be fucked. The ONLY way the USA gets better is by the US #electorate making educated choices. Our system is designed to change slowly, as it should be. It is people who want everything now who are holding us back. Even the best of the Left understand that. Listen to #Mamdani, #OcasioCortez, #Sanders et al. They learned how the system works instead of staying home and whining.
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[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
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I have further expanded the https://www.maga-collaborators.net website.
It now tracks #colleges and #universities in addition to #law firms and other #corporations that are #collaborating, #capitulating, or #resisting the #Trump #regime.
Please share this link to help spread the word! I'll be adding to and upgrading this website regularly moving forward.
And please send tips to help fill in the gaps in the data to the email address listed on the website.
me - corporations are not fair.
users - true that.
me - U.S. corporations are not fair.
users - I'll just take this political, call you a communist and spread bad stories about you.
If you ever hear bad talk about us on mastodon, then this might be a reason. (our .social account got deleted for no reason and some pro-EU accounts ghost us, also no idea why)
If you want to double check on our opinion, please just ask us directly! We're pretty straight forward.
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The #Senate has passed #Trump’s tax cut & spending bill, sending it to #House for final passage
The #legislation extends trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the #wealthy & #corporations from Trump’s first term & implements new campaign promises, while spending billions on #immigration, cutting millions of people from #Medicaid & #FoodStamps, & increasing the #NationalDebt by trillions.
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
The #CongressionalBlackCaucus on Tuesday called on major #corporations across the #US, including those that previously expressed support for #VotingRights & #RacialJustice, to oppose #redistricting efforts by #Republican led states that seek to eliminate majority-#Black US #House districts.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #election #RepresentationMatters #BlackCaucus #Congress #JohnLewis #VotingRightsAct #VRA
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-black-caucus-voting-rights-corporations-a8a89bcc64ba1b074289c1ee606485fc
This is what he’s talking about when he says he’s cut taxes:
#Trump Has Allowed #Corporations to Skirt at Least $40 Billion in #Taxes
#TaxHavens became more appealing after Trump signed an order over a year ago to withdraw the #US from an international effort to end such schemes.
#law #plutocracy #criminal #billionaires #TaxDodging #TaxShelters #CorporateTax #business #economy #IRS #SEC
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/economy/offshore-tax-havens-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mFA.sFke.xRS1hemEGeWv&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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it happened to my veterinary clinic. has it happened at yours? big vet corp (not a music subgenre) is buying up local vets & jacking up the prices, increasing the debt burden on already-struggling people who love their companions.
new reforms would cap vet charges. this is an opportunity to kneecap the corporate vet lobby. please, sign the petition.
#health #corporations #dogsOfMastodon #catsOfMastodon
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-pet-care-affordable?
This week's comic on the enshittification of flying
#corporations #consumers #transportation #travel #cartoon #comic #flying
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