This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other compan
Billionaire-backed advocacy group with Heritage Foundation ties will run a television ad starting Sunday that targets state lawmakers who have challenged Louisiana Governor's plan
A billionaire-backed advocacy group will run a television ad backing Gov. Jeff Landry's push for $94 million to help parents pay for private education.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61978975
The Club for Growth was founded in 1999 by Stephen Moore, Thomas L. Rhodes, and Richard Gilder. Stephen Moore worked at the Heritage Foundation from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014.
"You capture the Soviet Union --I'm going to capture the states."-Thomas Roe to fellow Heritage Foundation member Robert Krieble.
Attached: 3 images "You capture the Soviet Union --I'm going to capture the states."-Thomas Roe to fellow Heritage Foundation member Robert Krieble. Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992. TIL that Krieble funded the first of its kind Russian corporation for cooperation between Russia and ...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61837834
Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992.
Louisiana Governor's EO gets rid of job creation requirement for corporations receiving 80% tax abatement
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61309889
ITEP provides an 80% tax abatement for up to 10 years. This is supposed to be in exchange for job creation and economic investment in Louisiana. Except Landry removed the requirement for job creation back in Feb.
As Landry explains, "It is not about job creation. It is about capital investment."
To sweeten corporate welfare as an incentive to business, Landry is now giving businesses with existing ITEP contracts the ability to "opt-out" of previous requirements binding them in their current contracts.
So come to Louisiana, exploit whatever you need, benefit from corporate welfare and now you don't even have to create jobs to do it.
The Louisiana Comeback campaign created by [GNO Inc.](https://web.archive.org/web/20230321040815/h
Quick poster posting
Not sure if this is the right place to post this.
If I used something like this could I quickly glue down posters to telephone poles or wooden fences and escape?
Thinking about posting anti-corporate propaganda around my neighborhood, and want it to be quick and somewhat difficult to remove. Is this a good idea, both in execution and messaging?
Doctors don't want to accept Medicaid patients anymore
Attached: 1 image When you make up excuses to fire and get rid of doctors that already take Medicaid. Then claim one of the reasons Medicaid is unsustainable is bc you have to increase pay for doctors as an incentive bc "No doctors want to accept Medicaid patients"
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59911929
If Medicaid is unsustainable that means healthcare cuts.
When you're looking for where you should be making healthcare cuts what makes the most logical sense to you?
At least having a discussion about how these administrative salaries and positions are actually justified?
Or
•Slash and burn policy eliminating doctors that were already accepting Medicaid
•Reducing care offered to patients so that the patients will then indeed become less healthy, rely on emergency services and require more costly care in the long run
•Claiming Medicaid is unsustainable bc "no doctors want to accept Medicaid patients."
If you abruptly eliminate all the doctors that do accept Medicaid and then claim you need to increase the Medicaid budget to incentivise doctors in order to get them to accept Medicaid patients, then yes, by default it becomes easy to make the argument that no doctors in your hospital "want to accept Medicaid."
When we talk about Medicaid becoming unsustainable why don't we hear about hospital expenses and CEO salaries?
Attached: 2 images When we talk about why Medicaid is becoming unsustainable due to increasing healthcare costs, why don't we ever hear Republicans or Democrats mention salaries for hospital CEOs? Here are the 2023 salaries for the CEO, President, and COO of the largest chain of hospitals in Louis...
Even if you live in the most liberal blue state, you should be aware you have a Heritage Foundation affiliate pushing their policies at your state level.
Attached: 1 image YSK that the State Policy Network (SPN) is a Heritage Foundation spinoff with "freedom centers" in all 50 states pushing the same policy while hiding behind claims of small government and transparency. There are now 16 DOGE taskforces in the U.S. and SPN appears to be getting pr...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59677728
The State Policy Network (SPN) is a network of conservative and "libertarian" think tanks hiding behind claims of transparency and small government while all promoting the same White House policies across all 50 states.
I won't link it here, but they are very easy to find. To find out who is pushing these policies in your state, you can go to their homepage and scroll down to their convenient drop down list to search for members by each state.
If you want to avoid going to their website, there's a good chance you can just find one near you by typing the name of your state + "policy institute" in a search engine.
These people are really not the most creative and the names and logos used by these network affiliates are nearly identical across several states.
As of March 2025, most are pushing the same copy paste messages, praising Musk and DOGE for doing such a great job cutting through ::insert:: "red tape" "bure
I made a flow chart to explain all the corporate corruption behind the anti-vax/anti-science movement if anyone is interested in learning more. It's a lot. And it gets worse.
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Tracking state level DOGE taskforces
Updating the list of existing state level DOGE inspired task forces. As of 2/26/25 there are 7 state level and 1 county level that I am aware of. While some have picked less conspicuous official names such as “Red Tape Relief” and “Fiscal Responsibility Program,” all were announced
Does anyone know of any communities that might be helpful for creating a shared place to track the "small government" DOGE taskforces that are popping up all over the country?
I've been piecing together what I can and my state has really gone off the rails with this. I'd really like to find a place to collaborate with others and collect evidence of how these supposedly small government actions are using the same playbook as the D.C. DOGE to aid some of the most powerful individuals and biggest corporations in the U.S.
BP's shareholders want it to make money, not climate policy - BBC News
The oil and gas producer faces criticism for its shift away from green energy, but many support it.
Amazon-owned platform says “costly” historical archives don’t drive “engagement.”…
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8301808
NetEase has released a statement following the shock Marvel Rivals layoffs last night.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/22836760
Philadelphia General Strike (1910) On this day in 1910, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (RTC) fired 173 union members, resulting in a series of escalating labor actions that culminated in a...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25773825
Philadelphia General Strike (1910)
Sat Feb 19, 1910
Image: Workers and supporters gather before a meeting on February 2nd, 1910, as the tensions between the Rapid Transit Company and workers increased. From the Library of Congress [philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/]
On this day in 1910, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (RTC) fired 173 union members, resulting in a series of escalating labor actions that culminated in a general strike.
RTC fired the workers "for the good of the service" and hired replacement workers from New York City. Immediately after the firings, the union leadership ordered the strike, taking their respective trolley cars off the streets effective at 1:00 that afternoon.
During the
Last November you might recall that Wired released an excellent report documenting how it was trivial to buy the sensitive and detailed movement data of U.S. military and intelligence workers as th…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22171852
from the zero-accountability dept
