Broke-Ass Stuart:You're just as appalled as I am that 12.6 million people are unemployed, yet the wealth of billionaires grew over $10 trillion so far during the pandemic. That's too big of a number for us to fathom so let me write that out: $10,000,000,000,000. That is SOOO many fucking zeros. The richest motherfuckers in the world are getting unfathomably richer while the rest of us suffer.
And many of the companies owned or invested in by these people get massive corporate welfare from the government resulting in humongous subsidies. This means YOUR tax dollars are helping fund companies that already make billions of dollars. We should all be sharpening our guillotines right now. [...]
Whole Foods: Whole Foods is owned by Amazon, a company who spent several years paying $0 in federal taxes. Since you can't really "borrow" from an internet retailer, your next best option is to do so from their brick and mortar location. That means healthy and organic borrowings for you and your family! Don't feel bad, Amazon has received $2,379,871,238 in government subsidies.
Safeway: Safeway's parent company, Cerberus Capital Management has received $156,378,705 in government subsidies. Amongst their many holdings is the gun manufacturer Remington Arms, who has itself received $68,900,000 in subsidies. So yeah...gross.
Nike: You know what will help expedite your "borrowing" ventures? Some fresh new running shoes! Nike has been the recipient of $2,094,781,049 in government subsidies. Instead of shaming poor people for buying Nikes, we should be be shaming Nike for making billions of dollars while being on corporate welfare.
[...and more...]
How is Walmart not on the top 100 list? Aren't their employees on food stamps?
Wow, that's a dead ringer for Scarlett Johansson, I had to double-check to confirm it wasn't actually her; it's from unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/ivyPnM08Inc
And, as if to justify the above, the CEO of Whole Foods just said that the US doesn't need universal healthcare because - in his opinion - poor American health and diet is each citizen's own goddamn fault.
This is the same fucker who denies climate change and has made it his goal in life to bust unions. No wonder Bezos loves him so much.
So the subject of "germ theory denial" came up on Twitter the other day, and it turns out it's still wildly popular among a lot of "alt-medicine" woo-slingers.
When I started working at WF in 2003, I was informed that the #1 selling product in "Health and Body" was oscillococcinum, a fake remedy for flu.
Snake Oil: the only thing that changes is the label.