The Exigent Duality
Corporate Curated - 17:22 CST, 2/04/20 (Sniper)
I've been on the receiving end of tirades like this several times before. They're astonishing not only by how unhinged they are, but from the vantage point that the various authors were willing to pour so much energy and time into them, at the opportunity cost of all of the other things they could have been doing with their lives. Mind boggling.

Watching the Super Bowl really drove into focus for me just how corporation-dictated our lives are on a day-to-day basis. From the league itself, to the team-specific promotions, to the stadium design, to the brands of shoes and hats people were mandated to wear on the sidelines, to the deluge of commercials non-stop hammering social re-programming on a mass scale, to the very specific verbiage and language the punditry was allowed to use, to the television I was watching it on via the video card in my PC rendering it, to the clothes I was wearing, to the McDonalds I was eating-- every last aspect, a "Fahrenheit 451"-esque "experience", carefully curated by nothing but multi-billion dollar companies and board-room execs.

I don't fear corporations like I do governments: if I don't like a given company, at the end of the day I can simply choose to not buy their products or services, and there's not a darned thing they can do about it. But from an optional, entertainment perspective, they are impossible to side-step, as they've corporate-mergered into oblivion, and a tiny number of them have pretty much taken absolutely everything over. Take video games: look at this list of the "biggest games coming in 2020", and how crazy-conservative (compared to "triple-A" games from older platforms) they are aesthetically and mechanically-- then cross-reference the publisher revenue via Wikipedia, for each game. See the connection?

The biggest reason why these gigantic corporations exist is because they get billions of dollar's worth of protections ("corporate personhood"), first-access to newly-created Fed bucks at virtually zero percent interest, and even outright cash subsidies, where the CEOs actively compete with each other to see who can get more "crony capitalist" tax money. This kind of public-private "cooperation" as an economic system actually has a name: it's called "Fascism". And it's the system the United States employs, to an extreme degree.

Back to the DNC Iowa debacle and undoubted corruption, take a look at the picture of the two men in charge of the company: they both have weak jaw lines, unpronounced cheek bones, weak brow lines, plus soft, pale, woman-like skin-- especially in the case of the guy on the left. Notice their attraction to flannel and dorky hipster glasses. I'm guessing they have roughly equivalent "T" levels to the woman in the middle, which is probably a big reason why they are attracted to Leftism.