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Hold him accountable or something, yall dont even have guard rails to protect american citizens and hold people in power accountable, america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible. Citizens rights? Fuq that shit xd
america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible
Unfortunately, this 100% true, and most people don't truly realize it. In 1919, Dodge sued Ford, claiming that Henry Ford was operating his company under policies that benefitted him and his workers more than they benefitted the shareholders. The court found for Dodge, and ever since, corporations have been enslaved by their Stock Price, and all company policies have to increase the stock price, no matter what. If they don't put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.
That forces companies to abuse and under-pay employees, and make immoral corporate decisions because serving the Stock Price is literally the ultimate objective of every corporation. More than a good product, more than quality control, more than utility to the consumer, more than being a moral company who cares about their employees, the Stock Price is literally the only thing that matters, because that's the law. Ultimately, the only product that any public corporation cares about, is its Stock.
If they don’t put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.
The thing that gets you sued is not doing what you say you're supposed to be doing. And that entirely depends on what it says in the corporate charter. A corporation is only obligated to maximize quarterly shareholder returns if they don't clearly state otherwise. And it's never been the stock price, it's been dividends (which drive the stock price). And you'll notice that quite a lot of software firms don't turn a profit for many years and pay no dividends. And yet they're not sued by shareholders, because they openly announced that that was what their strategy was.
How about go swimming off the beautiful Cuban coast, and get eaten by a school of sharks?
Alright that's the last straw, I've had enough news about tyrants today. I don't even believe in magic but I'm still gonna put a curse on every single one of these disgusting fascists and enabling fuckwits. Rot, bastards. All of them
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Vihhoo tihhkuvat akat, ukotkii eltaantunneet,
vajjoot mahollistajat, kansoo nii murhhanneet,
sikkailevvat raharikkoot, lapsiiki raeskanneet,
kaik nuo elonkehhee ryöveevät suatanan ahhneet;
lihat sulakee poies, suoletki määtkää,
täysiks visvoo piät ilikeet ja tyhymätkii,
kalluu nuo luut viel paha syöpäkkii,
kaik fasistihet työ elävält mättääntykkää;
puolest kaikkie heikompie, ny mie pistänkii vihoiks,
kirroon verellä, kirroon raualla,
kirroon sylellä ja suolalla,
peittelennii viel tuhhkasella,
mie kuritan mualimanpaskojia näen julumasti kostoks.
So what about Iran and or the Epstein files?
Ha ha!
It's funny because no one in a position of power will try and stop him and he will fucking kill us all for his vanity, or to escape narcissistic injury, or because he's bored...
Wait.. yeah, that's not funny. Can someone please take away grampas nuclear weapons and put him in a home/jail?
I'm so glad I listened to all the posters who said voting for the Democrats was voting for GENOCIDE. Boy we sure dodged a bullet there didn't we!
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
The reality is many democratic voters were simply not motivated to vote for an administration that was more interested in supporting a genocide than dealing with the riding cost of living. You can argue that’s stupid or irrational but that won’t affect how voters actually vote. You might as well be yelling at a brick wall. It won’t change anything.
The fact is that Biden, Kamala, and other high level members of the Democratic Party knew that supporting a genocide might cost them the election. They did it anyways. They cared more about Israel’s ability to bomb children than they cared about protecting the American people from a second Trump term. The blame lies entirely with them.
Ah, but it's not just those who voted this way. It's more those who actively supported this idea and were pushing for people not to vote because of it. We'll never have certainty about how much of an impact it made on the actual vote but I think any reasonable person would concede by this point that the consequences of the result they were advocating for have been much, much worse than just picking the lesser evil even if you believe that lesser evil allowed an unrestrained Israel to conduct genocide. I do think the facts contradict that claim anyway since we've seen Israel's actions rise to a whole another level after Trump has truly let the Netanyahu government loose but even if that wasn't the case there's a lot more harm being done both domestically and abroad in addition to that all continuing.
It's also not just the presidential election by the way, in a world where the House had been under Democratic control we'd probably have seen Trump limited in meaningful ways over the past year.
some small segment of vocal lefties
Most if not all of them were bots and right-wing trolls, operating with the objective of suppressing Democratic Party turnout. The remainder (if any) were just gullible.
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
Because then they'd have to confront the fact that there was whole list of popular (with everyone, not just the left) issues that the democrats where turning their noses up at, not just Kamala's promise to keep Joe's genocide going.
But it is funny how the anti-genocide folks are the ones they're blaming the most for their defeat. No one is hissing at people who wanted single-payer health care for instance. Totally a real winning strategy and not just another smear job paid for by AIPAC.
First finish with Iran, you Orange Ape
This is about shifting media attention away from Iran. When Miami gets shelled, then the Gulf becomes boring.
"The honor of taking Cuba" sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he's about to rape.
Well he does have experience
As long as we don't do anything about it he can indeed do whatever he wants
blockade is defined in the UN charter as an aggressive act of war. Any fallout from that would mean NATO has no duty to support the US.. in that conflict or any conflict continuing from it.
it’s in the definition of Agression Resolution (Re. 3314) and is considered an illegal act, and a war crime if it halts import of food and medicine.
Retaliating with commensurate and proportional force against a blockade is legally allowed by art. 51 of the UN Charter.
NATO has no duty to support the US anyway unless we're talking about an attack on the US which this isn't looking like any way you slice it.
I never thought I'd see the day when even childish Saturday morning cartoon villainy became this real.
This is his dementia talking, or more specifically, his frontotemporal dementia, a major symptom of which is that his brain no longer has efffective impulse control He lacks inhibition, much like you see in drunk people, and he's just acting on whatever idiotic thought pops into his head or gets mentioned to him
Trump seems to be speed-running the "overextend yourself militarily" part of the late stage in the collapse of empires.
Spoken like a true rapist.
When I was a kid I always dreamed of visiting the USA.
Now, I will only visit it once. To piss on Trump's grave when he dies.
How about you finish your current war you sad old bag of hamburgers.
“I do believe I’ll be the honor of – have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor,” said the president.
“Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah,” the president confirmed. “Taking Cuba.”
“I mean, whether I free it, or take it... I think I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth,” Trump said.
Wasn't he trying to make people forget about the Epstein files? Because jfc that isn't how you do it
Rapist gonna rape
Epstein files