- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Trader Joeās, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumersāthe NLRB and FTCāare āunconstitutional.ā
Trader Joeās has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being āunconstitutional,ā following the lead of Elon Muskās SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations arenāt alone in attempting to protect their interests by undermining public institutions; Meta is also arguing in an ongoing lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is unconstitutional.
A legal expert told Motherboard that these companies are attempting to take advantage of what they believe is a friendly Supreme Courtājudges currently lean right by a six-to-three margināwhile they can.
Certain people are asking SOME of the right questions, but the actions allowing these narcissistic ass hats to run wild is certainly clear.
We need a solid change of guard in the US to wrestle us back from teetering on the edge of a true Corporatocracy, but I fear weāre kind of already there having seen whatās happening with all these companies just absorbing smaller entities at breakneck speed to remove competition, and little to no barriers to slow or stop them. Everyone is so quick to sellout instead of working hard to compete. Pretty sad.
bernie was literally the last hope we had to bring change, and guess what;
obama, clinton personally killed that potential progress
if anyone is to blame its fucking Obama and the DNC for demanding conservatism in the face of fascists.
Bill Clinton killed off any rejection of Reagan. The rest is the lack of any political structure beyond the state and corporations.
Iām afraid itās worse than that.
Basically after FDR died, for as imperfect as he wasā¦ all the objective good he did was slowly whittled away by members of both parties - simply at differing rates.
With Truman put in as his VP after the DNC suggested replacing FDRās first VP - Henry āI want to pass a civil rights bill in the 1940sā Wallace for their more ācentristā candidate, we dropped 2 atomic weapons on civilian cities.
Kennedy was the first real neoliberal in that he came from a dynastically wealthy family and successfully dropped the top marginal tax rate that FDR had helped set at 90% down to 60%ā¦ which helped create massive budget shortages about a decade later. LBJ got us into Vietnam. Carter was too nice to ever use the bully pulpit and also let his own personal Protestant work ethic dictate his own policy goals which he seemed to back with the idea that things like the oil crisis should be a burden that every day Americans shoulder rather than the massive giant multinational oil companies, and then after Reagan won 2x and Bush āmy family worked with the Nazisā Sr. won a term afterward, Clinton pivoted the last remaining New Deal democrats to a 3rd way where they abandoned the working class for a more palatable version of Republicanism.
Bernie really could have been a turning point, but instead all that has happened is the accelerating worsening of all our lives alternating between the hands of the ultra rich who only do it slowlyā¦ and the hands of increasingly fascistic nakedly monstrous ultra rich ghouls and their goons.
obama and clinton personallly interfered with, and prevented his being chosen by the DNC at the DNCs request in 2016.
obama the conservative prevented progress by enabling other conservative democrats to endorse the conservative hillary over bernie.
fuck obama
Lol. GPT much?
Let them amalgamate, because the new guard will be OK with seizing entities working against national interests and itāll just allow a entire sectors to fall immediately into government control to serve the people while billionaires cry.