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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

The average public policy professor

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The average public policy professor

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Literally just saying “the only proper way to exercise power is to be extremely rich”

    Also, the idea of a Woke Bain Capital is pretty funny. Just buying out all the most ghoulish corps to strip them for parts

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s astonishing rrealizing how much of American political thought is just this intense kayfabe of presenting a real political system while rigidly upholding the status quo at all costs.

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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    A logical extension of lesser evilism and “if you aren’t at the table you’re on the menu” ideology tbh

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Now the anti union propaganda makes more sense. Because if you don’t want to be part of a union or be “at the table,” then they’ll make you believe that you won’t benefit at all from negotiations, thus it’s a waste of money and time. In reality even if you’re at the table, you’re relegated to a second thought.

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Investor activism is such a long and drawn out process and you are telling zoomers with no fucking money to pool together all their resources and compete against fucking Blackrock or Bain Capital?

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      And the military budget of the federal government.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        And the willingness of the federal government to just do whatever the fuck it wants, violently, on the rare occasions someone “beats it” on paper.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Imo instead of protesting Israel the students should purchase Israel more bombs so the country feels like it owes them something

    • Meh [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Hello, I would like to buy one Israel, please. I’m shutting it down

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    “Hello my fellow investors. I know we all want to make money, but have considered doing something significantly less profitable like not selling weapons?”

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    Voting power is proportional to shares owned aka how much money you have. The market cap of Lockheed Martin is $110B. Where are the students going to get the literal multi-10s-of-billions of dollars to acquire an activist-size stake? Like holy fuck this is so unbelievably stupid.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Where are the students going to get the literal multi-10s-of-billions of dollars to acquire an activist-size stake?

      Bake sale?

      • Wolfman86 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        They could just ask their mums and dads?

  • Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Us communists should pool our money together, buy every stock on the stock market, then hand the companies over to the workers. Instant socialism! It’s brilliant, why didn’t we think of this before.

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    • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.net
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      Ah come on, what can 290.491 billion dollars cost? Twenty dollars?

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  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    How about instead we get the list of people who own the most shares and

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    Bit idea: blaming libs for not putting all of their money into the stock market when Biden loses

    "I see you spent $8 on a blue checkmark, when you could have spent that on a fractional share of Amazon stock and used your voting weight to give Biden a guest appearance on season 4 of The Boys smuglord "

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      But he was already the main villain of season 3, libs were just completely oblivious to how Soldier Boy was a cross between brandon and hunter while chuds understand that Homelander is trump-drenched but they think him being portrayed as a fascist superman who kills people is based

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    Do you know what happened to the rabbit who tried to change the wolf from the inside?

    It got digested.

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    The brainworms are so dense this professor turned into anti-Brer Rabbit:

    smuglord “You know what the wolf would really hate? If we were to throw a bunch of vegetables and seasoning into boiling water, then skin ourselves and jump in as well! lol, that wolf will never see it coming”

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