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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.

I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

(For reference: I am cishet, but have family & friends in the LGBTQ+ community and consider myself an ally.) Usually just lurk, but I feel you so badly.

I've been saying it forever as well. They're spending millions, to specifically target/advertise/appeal to the community... out of the goodness of their hearts? Right.

Then as soon as its "over", the facade drops and its on to the next big event/target market. Rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Haha absolutely, I'm also one of the people who always said all this rainbow and green washing is bullshit. As if they ever cared for anything.

Capitalism has no values, except for one: shareholder value. Yesterday they help sending people to concentration camps, today they help saving the world and increasing diversity, yeah, totally convincing.

There is one thing to rely on with capitalism - if you convince people you can make good money with it or it is good for the brand, they will jump onto it and squeeze the shit out of it. An abstract, amoral force, made from a large number of concrete shitty people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, in the past companies wouldn't be caught dead associating with LGBTQ+ people, let alone take their money. Now LGBTQ+ is acceptable enough for predatory advertising so...idk progress from like a fucked up capitalist perspective I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Rainbow line must go up

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Keep using uorigin for blocking as. Also use Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Switch to AdNauseam.

It clicks ads in addition to blocking them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I used newpipe for a long time, currently using a fork called pipepipe. I forgot why I switched lol

https://pipepipe.dev/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Probably for SponsorBlock.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They also allowed a pedo back on their platform

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Look at the latest executive order on "protecting children". They are planning for eugenics.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It's almost impressive how quickly the whole of the business world capitulated to Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

They didn't capitulate. They never fought. They just did what was the best shot at earning money and gaining ground at the time.

Don't ever expect moral based behavior in capitalism or geopolitics.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

It’s almost like their support for these issues was never genuine to begin with.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It's too hard to change anything, but only if it's progressive policies. Fascist policies can be implemented immediately.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

This is what's fucking shitty about this

Every company and every politician and every person who bends over so willingly IS THE PROBLEM

It's like they announce their regime and these idiots roll out the red carpets immediately ready be the first company to suck the government off

If they all stood their ground, it would buy more time

[–] [email protected] 57 points 12 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

If you don't use the strikeout, you can save millions of dollar on toner/ink from not printing out an extra word at a corpo that big. I think I deserve a promotion for that insight as well, well worth the extra money!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Slavishly Follow the Fascist Government's Lead

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

First reddit now youtube. Welcome to the tech broligarchy

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Man this whole anticipatory compliance with the fascist regime shit is fucking awful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

It's like Roko's Basilisk playing out in real time, except instead of building a malignant computer out of fear it's accelerating a fascist takeover.

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