• MidnightPocket [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The rhetoric of “supporting” companies that are rooted in the pursuit of profit and typically are only a few degrees removed from outright subsidizing right-wing terror across the globe is hilarious

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          ‘Some of the most charitable people on earth’ (citation needed) are massive genocidal adult children. They overwhelmingly supported invading Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Palestine. They even venerate people who participate in those actions as soldiers, i.e. in the most direct way possible.

          These people are not ‘misguided’. They are bloodthirsty monsters who deny their crimes.

                • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  They are the most caring and generous person I know

                  So, they are nice to you and their friends, so that means it’s okay for them to get rich off of heinous exploitation of most of the world and colonialism. Got it.
                  So very ‘charitable’. /s

                  He never pays taxes because he donates all he can afford

                  So, he uses the system set up for them to pay less in taxes than the people they exploit. And to use that system, they just pay to charities that are useless for anything other than their own PR and what is effectively legalised tax fraud.

                  He rents homes at a loss for families

                  Even if we are to believe this and that he is not immiserating his tenants, he still doesn’t live at a loss in general, meaning that he is making the rest of society poorer.
                  And that’s even ignoring his relations to labour and to the means of production.

                  He turns dilapidated schools into affordable elderly apartments

                  So, he is destroying schools and children’s access to education so that some wealthy rich people could get yet more housing for themselves?

                  You have not investigated these matters much.

                • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Also, ask that friend of yours if he thinks that Pissrael should exist or not.
                  Chances are, they are in favour of Pissrael’s continued existence, which means support for the genocide efforts past, present, and future, no return of homes and land from Pissraeli settler-colonists to the Palestinian families that they were stolen from, and no justice in this regard in general.