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posted 2 years ago by CulturalPhilistine on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +117Score on mirror )
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BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
2 years ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / +6Score on mirror ) 2 children
People generally think any merger of government and corperate power is corperatism and fascism, but in corperatism the government controls the corperations and requires they operate for the good of the nation. And the nation is, of course, the people.

We live under the other type of merger, a corperatocracy, where the big banks and other major corperations use lobbying to control the government and turn the country into an economic zone for transnational elites to loot. And now western governments are actively working to destroy and replace their own people.
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Vlad_The_Impaler on scored.co
2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Good answer but I am unconvinced that government operates in subjugation to corporate power.

I remember Obama and Eric Holder kept shaking down oil companies and completely hosed BP and raided Associated Press. Government can raid and audit and leverage corporations heavily with IRS and EPA and other regulatory agencies and put up so much red and yellow tape that lobbyism won't matter.

If government wants to shut you down they send armed police who will escalate and escalate and escalate to the point of deadly force.

For example, if you did not require customers to put on masks in your own business then the government could show up and shut your business down and force you to close. If you refused then they would keep escalating the conflict to deadly violence. If you absolutely held your ground and stood guard of your restaurant and kept telling them to fuck off they would try to grab you and arrest you and if you said no you do not have the right then they would claim you are resisting arrest and the ZOGBOTS reach for their guns, kill you then say they thought it was their taser.

What keeps both corporations and government in check is the Federal Reserve Bank which is a private mafia banking cartel of lying satanic jews.
BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
I was counting banks as corperations, since that's how they're legally organized. But I can see how you'd count them separately, since investment banks own the bulk of corperate America.
HimmlerWasRight88 on scored.co
2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
It's not banks. It's the media and institutions like universities and schools. This is what runs the nation, because they decide the culture. You can argue that financial institutions such as Blackrock also have an enormous power due to them controlling the stock market. However what they can do is limited by the culture that was set up by universities, schools, and media. For example ESG came *after* climate change was accepted as a fact, not before.

Banks have very little power. Even the Fed. What power does the Fed have? People who think banks or the Fed are in charge is because they don't truly understand how these institutions work.
BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
You underestimate the power of monetary policy, but it's not an either/or question either, not when you consider the common thread running through the upper levels of the media, banks, universities, think tanks etc. We're just talking about different faces of tribe, after all.
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