How can grassroots defeat fascism 2.0?

Guillermo 2022-10-28 07:34:12

Google's motto is "don't be evil"? Did it do it? So what about other companies that don't say no to evil?

After watching this documentary, I realized that the Fanta Orange I used to drink occasionally was originally exported to Nazi Germany by the Coca-Cola Company during World War II.

The punch card machine required for the massacre of Jews in Nazi Germany (there was no computer at that time, the punch card machine was used to record a large amount of data) recorded a large amount of personnel information. provided by IBM.

It is true that fascists kill countless

large companies and kill countless people, and the

difference between killing people without blood is that

the former is: I can shoot you at any time, and the
latter is: I am unhappy with you, and I drink chronic poison without your knowledge.

Irony The thing is, the latter can get legitimacy in a grand manner!

DDT, chemical plant sewage...

Fascists use lies to deceive the world, and big companies can control the media, control public opinion, and even control the government. Marketing! Branding!


Fascist 2.0?

Of course, the enumeration can go on

and on... So what about the situation in China?

What about the "public relations transaction" between a certain degree and a certain deer?

What about human rights violations in sweatshops?


When the media and the government become corporate puppets, can we fight it? Is the outlook bleak?

procession? demonstration? Gandhi-like "non-violent non-cooperation"?

This film has a lot to watch, the data and information are detailed and insightful, and it also interviewed public figures with social conscience such as Peter Drucker, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Milton Friedman.


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Extended Reading

The Corporation quotes

  • Narrator: In a world economy where information is filtered by global media corporations, keenly attuned to their powerful advertisers, who will defend the public's right to know? And what price must be paid to preserve our ability to make informed choices?

  • Steve Wilson: One of the first stories that Jane came up with was the revelation that most of the milk in the state of Florida and throughout most of the country was adulterated with the effects of bovine growth hormone.

    Jane Akre: With Monsanto, I didn't realise how effectively a corporation could work to get something on the marketplace. The levels of coordination they had to have. They had to get university professors into the fold. They had to get experts into the fold. They had to get reporters into the fold. They had to get the public into the fold and of course the FDA, let's not leave them out. They had to get the federal regulators convinced that this was a fine and safe product to get it onto the marketplace. And they did that, they did that very, very well. The federal government basically rubber stamped it before they put it on the marketplace. The longest test they did for human toxicity was 90 days on 30 rats. And then either Monsanto misreported the results to the FDA, or the FDA didn't bother to look in depth at Monsanto's own studies.

    Steve Wilson: The scientists within Health Canada looked very carefully at bovine growth hormone and come to very different conclusions than the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. did.