$22 million of the settlement will be contributed to the Trust for the National Mall to help pay for the construction of the White House State Ballroom.
I hate everything so fucking much right now. I'm just so fucking tired of it being so god damned stupid and shitty day after day.
Same, it's pretty maddening. I want to stop hearing about stuff that's going to deteriorate my general health but at the same time I don't want to be blindsided by all the stuff that will have a legitimate impact on my life.
It's all so insanely stupid and I'm so tired of him getting away with all the bullshit without even trying. Feels like the whole government is just his condom puppets that say yes to his every whim and just allow him to fuck over the country
Not even just the government. These are basically payoffs from companies like Google to curry favor.
I'm so sick of these companies that sold themselves as making the world a better place for two fucking decades immediately just turning tail and deciding actually just paying off the king for better treatment positioning is better than democracy. It's all so short sighted and absolutely fuck-stupid.
start collecting names of people doing this and deal with them after this regime is gone
Or before it's gone, less judicially.
What, did you expect MBAs to be smart?
I mean, fair, but we're talking about Alphabet/Google/Youtube which was founded and run by two computer scientists until very recently. To my knowledge both Sergei Brin and Larry Page continue to be controlling shareholders, and while Page stepped down in 2019, Brin came back in 2023 to contribute to Google's AI efforts.
Just because they vote on some stuff once a year doesn't mean they control the company.
I guess my point is Google was shit long before this when those guys still ran the company. Hell, even Eric Schmidt was a former computer engineer.
Brin was even at Trump's inauguration along with current CEO Sundar Pinchai.
Yes.
If you want to feel worse, even if that whole $22 million went to funding the construction of a ballroom, thats barely only 10% of the 'cost.'
I don’t want to be on this stupid fucking planet anymore
I like this planet, I want them off it.
It's a way to secure bribes for the president. He files frivolous lawsuits and then shakes them down for settlements.
Even tech oligarchs allied to the regime do this, as we see here. It's not just the shakedown, it's also just a much easier way to pay him. Easier to explain than briefcases of cash or the very obvious money laundering that he tries to pretend is a real estate business.
Yup Google is about to be handed a DoD or DOJ contract for cloud.
Fucking Americans are so fucking stupid, just watching their country devolve into a fascist crime mob run by fucking clowns, sponsored by their favourite companies.
Beyond protesting i don't know of much else i can do here.
It's called civil DISOBEDIENCE. NOT protesting. BE DISOBEDIENT. Just do it CIVILY. It's always worked when ENOUGH people DISOBEY. NOT when they protest.
Protesting doesn't do much but make Billionaires laugh at the fact they convinced you history is full of successful protests. It's not. It's full of successful civil Disobedience.
It's just more dangerous than ever to do. But also worth it more than ever.
Protests behind police lines are just state sponsored venting sessions.
What does effective civil disobedience look like for the average worker?
Workplace resistance: Refusing to follow company policies that exploit workers or endanger others. For example, dock workers refuse working on ships carrying arms, warehouse workers slowing down production, or service workers collectively refusing to enforce discriminatory rules.
Withholding labor: Strikes are the most visible form, but even small coordinated actions like doing only what is contractually required, nothing extra, can be civil disobedience.
Supporting boycotts: Refusing to consume or sell products linked to oppression.
Community-based defiance: Helping neighbors resist evictions, sharing food outside of state regulated channels, or organizing mutual aid despite restrictions.
Symbolic defiance: Wearing or displaying political symbols at work or in public even when banned, as a way to disrupt the normalization of injustice.
Disrupt “business as usual". Don't let them use your labor to exploit others and ruin your future for their profits. Land another job offer and threaten to resign if oppressive decisions aren't reversed, and follow threw when they call your bluff.
Your labor is there lifeline, don't forget that.
I think your point to boycotting makes sense every other point only applies if I work for one of those major companies, I dont, my company respects the labor they have and provides us great compensation and stability, definitely not the norm within my the sector. So sure I'll be stopping using Google services as much but I can't withhold their labor and anything I do at my workplace will have zero effect on those companies.
I mean I'll be switching away from google services. Boycotts and strikes are the last remaining peaceful solutions
Cowards.
How in the hell can anyone successfully sue over an account on a video sharing site? Brick and mortar stores have the right to refuse service, why not online services? Or does Google just want a way to give Donald John Trump money without it looking as obvious?
Its about bribing them to keep contracts etc
What's a backbone?
Hope you're all ready to live the rest of your lives in a pseudo-Russia.
We're well on our way. Probably too far to stop it, to be honest.
Shit country. Shit populace.
Unfortunately, I think we're already there. They moved very quickly.
I wish I still used Google products so I could stop using them now
Open corruption and bribes is the name of the game for republicans and their tiny orange leader.
legalized bribery
*extortion
touché
Can you bend the knee so hard it breaks? Because that's what all those companies are doing...
If you're already using ublock to skip their ads, does boycotting YouTube help? Genuine question, on the one hand you're giving them metrics but on the other, you're using their resources without really giving them anything.
Boycotting helps but it has to be done on scale which almost never happens because people are spoiled and lazy. There has to be a huge momentum.
For me sadly all of the creators are there and i am hoping some of them jump to peertube or something
I maintain that american corporations should be beholden to the bill of rights. A random citizen can choose to ban people from their forum, but an "open forum" where they are exploiting their users, shouldn't have that luxury.
If it's an "open forum" or "the public square" as it's also been called, it should be owned and regulated by the government, not controlled by a for-profit corporation.
Either way, what you're suggesting is forcing corporations to provide a platform for fascism. That goes WAY beyond free speech protection and into compelling services/prohibiting moderation.
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