Party A - "I demand you provide me with money and sinecures for my allies" Party B - <looks nervously> "Sure" Ben Winegard - "Party A is in Party B's pocket"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @benwinegard
Let's not be naïve. Merely because they donate to the revolution doesn't mean that the revolution will spare them. How does that old line go, "The Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with?" Well he'll also contribute to the party that will expropriate him.
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Replying to @aephax @benwinegard
Of course not. But even more than not sparing him - getting extorted by or trying to stay on the good side of the revolution isn't controlling the revolution. Tony Soprano shakes down the merchants in a town in his territory - obviously the merchants don't control the NJ mob.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @benwinegard
Extortion is exactly the metaphor I had in mind for a follow-up.
#WokeCapital is never going to learn that millions donated to#BlackLivesMatter
won't save their stores getting smashed & looted or their employees getting struggle sessioned in a corporate climate of woke terror.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
There's also an element of principal agent problem; wokeists would rather get woke credit that goes to them personally rather than earn money for the corp that goes to the shareholders. Look at the situation around coinbase where the CEO took a radical step of focusing on profit
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