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(2,362 posts)actors we usually see.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,052 posts)Little Poot the Toot is going down.
Magoo48
(4,659 posts)History reveals that movements by mothers are often quite powerful.
jmbar2
(4,828 posts)PatrickforB
(14,514 posts)they went in of ~ 1,000 soldiers.
THERE ARE ONLY TEN MEN LEFT IN HIS REGIMENT, if this woman can be believed.
That is a casualty rate of 99%. Pretting effing grim, if you are a Russian soldier.
They have already reputedly had 7,000+ killed, which is more than we lost in the two forever wars. I saw a comparative the other day, maybe on here, and it said we lost that many when we stormed Iwo Jima against heavy Japanese resistance. They are literally falling like bowling pins.
War is stupid.
Putin is a disgusting criminal (and Biden hit it on the head when he called the a-hole a 'war criminal' because he IS).
If we want the world peace Zelinsky spoke of yesterday morning, then we need to force changes in corporate charters away from shareholder primacy to a stakeholder approach. For those of you who have read my little soapbox on this before, bear with me.
In 1919, the Dodge Brothers, who were shareholders in Ford Motor Company sued Henry Ford on the basis that raising the wages of his factory workers to the point where they could afford to buy the cars they produced deprived them of profits to which they were 'entitled' as shareholders. They WON that suit in a Michigan Supreme Court ruling and the doctrine of Shareholder Primacy was born.
It has hardened since then, to the point where 'the market' rewards CEOS who engage in sociopathic behavior. We often get called 'snowflakes' when we say our system holds profits over people, but this is a true statement. Profit is king, and people are nothing. Every. Single. Time.
Think - if you are CEO of a publicly held company, the first thing you're going to do is bust the union. Then, you will drive wages and benefits down, and steal the pension fund if you can. You will compromise on worker safety and cut costs at the expense of good working conditions.
You will downsize the packaging of your products and charge the same amount. If people are hurt by your product sometimes, you will decide, based on shareholder profits, if it is more 'cost effective' to just pay the claims of the people who are maimed or killed from your product, versus recalling the product and fixing the problem. Seriously. Most of you can cite at least several examples of this behavior off the top of your heads.
And the environment? LOL. You will foul it whenever you can get away with it, and if you get caught, or screw up in some other way, you will run to the 'gummint' for a bailout at the expense of taxpayers, but you'll pocket any and all profits. You won't pay any taxes, either, if you can find loopholes. Corporations only pay in 6.8% of the government's tax revenue, while individual taxpayers foot 86% of the bill. This is how you want it.
Finally, you will fund campaigns for as many Republican legislators as you can, because what could be a better investment in keeping this policy just the way you like it? You will also 'earn' millions per year because of a tax loophole that allows corporations to deduct much of your 'compensation.'
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE NOW, PEOPLE. It is.
And until we force changes to corporate charters to a stakeholder approach that holds workers, consumers and the environment on an equal footing with shareholders, we will continue to have the problems we do. And the corruption we have.
I know this is an esoteric point, or so you may think. You may believe the average 'Murikan cannot understand such a complicated thing, and that's just what the oligarchs want you to continue thinking.
I say this because we have a military industrial complex (MIC) that is driven VERY MUCH by shareholder profits, with patriotism a distant second place. This MIC will NEVER, EVER allow the UN to have the power it should have, or allow Zelinsky's world peace organization to form. It would, after all, be BAD for PROFITS.
erronis
(14,941 posts)I don't think I've run across your writings before.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Of the son.......he looks 15 years old.
Oh, god this war is hurting everyone.
It's as if Shorty Putin is having a toddler's temper tantrum only he is doing it with bombs and other people's lives. If I can't have what I want then everyone, my own citizens included, are going to suffer for it......waah, waah, waah. This is crazy.