The Republicans are making the frogs gay!
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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Why? Wtf is the point?
Quarterly profit
Although I’d still cast my stone back at the government. This is exactly one of the scenarios capitalism does not do well. We should have a government serving the needs of the population, not the corporations, that shapes the market so capitalism will use its short term incentives to achieve longer term societal good.
The problem is government failing to shape the markets capitalism operates in, government captured by corporate interests, government abuse of authority for personal enrichment rather than societal, government turning the tables on voters as a manipulator means to an end instead of the voice of the people to serve
Why does darth vader kill people...
The point is to remove any restrictions on business and industry, regardless of the harm it does to the people or the planet.
Money and power is all that these people hold sacred, and it’s impossible for them to ever have enough. I personally find it very amusing that Christians worship Trump when he’s the antithesis of their original savior.
A combination of being against everything the opposition is for as well as corporate profit.
Cruelty
For social policies? Yes.
For business regulation policies? No.
It's money, money now and money fast. Fuck the future, the now is profitable. That's what these people want. To these business owners the only thing that matters is "line go up each quarter". They don't care that in the future there won't be as many people to sell to because they've destroyed the environment and made everyone sick.
These people need some adjusting.
I mean you could extrapolate that to cruelty, fossile fuel businesses have know for decades the harm they are causing
Cruelty =/= psychopathy.
Cruelty implies the motive for the action is to inflict pain and suffering.
Industries like the fossil fuel business aren't extracting, refining, and selling those polluting fuel sources because they WANT to see the world burn. They just don't care that it does.
The world isn't a Saturday morning cartoon where the evil oil Barron laughs manically as he watches run-off flow into the rivers killing wildlife, rubbing his hands together with glee as he enjoys watching the world burn before him.
No, in the real world the evil oil executives sit around in a board room looking at spreadsheets discussing revenue, operating costs, and sales projections for the next quarter and are somewhere between stressed over deadlines and bored out of their minds, and just thinking about how they're going to spend their next bonus.
Assuming they’re joining those meetings in person instead of from their mansions/yachts/private jets now that they’re afraid of catching that blue shell
The world isn't a Saturday morning cartoon where the evil oil Barron laughs manically as he watches run-off flow into the rivers killing wildlife, rubbing his hands together with glee as he enjoys watching the world burn before him.
And yet.
I mean, a literal demented rapist is rolling back environmental protections.
It is cruel to have an indifference to suffering, suffering they are causing