Down With Corporations?

[Chiara Francesco]

[img]http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss140/jmjtcarmelite/downwithcorporations.jpg[/img]

[MIKolbe]

idgi

[Selah]

lol

[cmaD2006]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1318016600' post='2317578']idgi[/quote]

duh. Just duh.

[BG45]

I laughed. So much.

It reminded me of this pic:
[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/308995_285426998134952_114517875225866_1156692_1879043807_n.jpg[/img]

[Winchester]

Totally the same thing.

[BG45]

You mean two groups of protesters who are utilizing products and services provided by what they claim to despise being pointed out by text and arrows?

[Winchester]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1318024558' post='2317668']
You mean two groups of protesters who are utilizing products and services provided by what they claim to despise being pointed out by text and arrows?
[/quote]
I missed the part where Eddie Bauer made people buy bags under penalty of law.

Edited October 7, 2011 by Winchester

[BG45]

[quote name='Winchester' timestamp='1318024795' post='2317669']
I missed the part where Steve Jobs made people buy iphones under penalty of law.
[/quote]

It's okay, I missed the part where [url="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/15/income-tax-why-70-million-americans-dont-pay-uncle-sam-a-dime/"]70 million Americans[/url] and most large [url="http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html"]corporations [/url]actually paid taxes under penalty of law also.

[Winchester]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1318025062' post='2317670']

It's okay, I missed the part where [url="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/15/income-tax-why-70-million-americans-dont-pay-uncle-sam-a-dime/"]70 million Americans[/url] and most large [url="http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html"]corporations [/url]actually paid taxes under penalty of law also.
[/quote]
Those who oppose higher taxes also often oppose corporatism. Probably not the people in the picture you put up, though. Those people are probably unaware of the level of collusion between government and business. They probably think Republicans support capitalism.

You don't seem to get that I oppose our current system.

[BG45]

No I get that. I'm just treating this thread as lame as it deserves to be treated between Chiara's image and my own.

[Winchester]

Very well. You win, [i]this time.[/i]

[Era Might]

Because slaveowners own our shovels, our crops, and our land, we have to support slaveowners? That's what I got out of that picture.

IMO the only way out of slavery and greed is to start building personal and local alternatives and living a scaled existence (as much as we can while we're slaves). Break dependence on the slaveowners.

Edited October 8, 2011 by Era Might

[BG45]

I thought it was more of a draw Winnie.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1318079981' post='2317953']
Because slaveowners own our shovels, our crops, and our land, we have to support slaveowners? That's what I got out of that picture.

IMO the only way out of slavery and greed is to start building personal and local alternatives and living a scaled existence (as much as we can while we're slaves). Break dependence on the slaveowners.
[/quote]
Then you need to move out into the wilderness cut down your own trees and build your own iron forge to build your own tools (not sure where you'd get the original tools for cutting wood, etc. - wouldn't want to purchase from capitalist slaveowners - supposed you'd have to make them chipped flint, cave-man style), grow all your own crops and raise your own livestock, then hand stitch all your own clothes, and prepare and cook all your food from your own crops.

Many preach independence from capitalist "slavery," but very, very few practice. Much easier I suppose to protest comfortably from air-conditioned offices on laptops bought from evil capitalist slave-drivers, and demand that the government intervene on behalf of internet would-be radicals everywhere.