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Sacred Peak

this is gross virtue signalling... I never asked for this garbage nor do I need or want to see it. 🤮

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

when BLM was the thing, the google assholes put a top bar on every page of https://go.dev/pkg saying black lives matter

still, namecheap has a huge thing about ukraine at the top

bolt ridesharing service startup screen has a heart with ukraine colours

makes me not want to use any of these things... thankfully the go dev page stopped that, and i use namecheap but that thing makes me want to not use it, and bolt was useless on this island anyway so i just stopped using it once i got away from the noisy hot south side

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Sacred Peak 1y ago

yeah this stuff sadly is about money and advertising, but people jump on these bandwagons.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i mean, obviously they must have been paid to do this tho

Sacred Peak 1y ago

if you virtue signal to a group, it can elicit purchases. if it wasn't like this then they wouldn't bother.

the old saying 'money makes the world go round' (in this case fiat) is true

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it's advertising of another kind, there's no way that the executives who call the shots don't get some kind of benefit from this somewhere in the picture

corrupt people don't move without lubrication

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i mean, it doesn't always work, either, think of the bud light fiasco

more than likely, the execs who called to have this shit done were paid off

it has almost destroyed the company but the execs are not feeling that, just all the poor buggers whose jobs are now basically all but gone, if not already they have been fired

Sacred Peak 1y ago

they get bonuses

and back room handshakes and deals, of course

that's how all this stuff moves along

and the clones buy into it without ever knowing because they'd rather not know.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

right, so it's got two parts:

1. the NPCs are more likely to choose the product that wears their brand

2. the people who profit from increasing division in society drive the wedge deeper and create new anchors to trigger robotic reactions from the NPCs, and trolling the rest of us, who see it as obvious manipulation, creating a sense of fear at being dominated... like the same deal with the covid thing, increasing the contrast between the in group and the out group and terrorising the out group