• Clark@lemmy.ml
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    Why are big companies like Google and Microsoft supportive for leftists if leftists in the USA want to destroy capitalism? It’s weird.

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      Man could you imagine if we had Google/MS bucks behind us? Instead it’s like 30 people with $2 between us.

      Google and Microsoft do not support the left at all.

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        With all that money against leftists, leftists couldn’t race head to head with the right wing in the USA. So I don’t think they are against you either.

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          Leftists are not racing head to head with the right wing in the US Empire. The DNC and GOP are both right-wing, leftism is largely found in smaller parties like PSL.

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      They support liberalism, not leftism.

      They like making a big deal out of their tokenistic support of LGBT/BIPOC/etc, to distract from them trampling over workers rights.

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      These companies aren’t supporting the end of capitalism. They subsume and coopt socially progressive movements to better support their own profits. Capital does this with anything, it doesn’t care about what the message or movement is, which is why many companies are tuning back progressive messaging in the current social climate.

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      In addition to people differentiating between leftism and liberalism:

      Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…

      Communists are allowed to post on YouTube because YouTube gets ad revenue off of their content without meaningfully changing our ability to actually affect change, at least from YouTube’s perspective.