Guess Which Country The KKKoch Industries Won't Pull Out Of?

[Celerity]

When funding White Nationalism is your business, you don't cut ties with the movement's global leader.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/guess-which-country-the-kkkoch-industries



Over 450 companies have walked away from doing business in and with Russia since Vladimir Putin launched his disastrous war on Ukraine. Some of them, like McDonald's, have been more noticeable than others. Some of them, like Nestle, haven’t really walked away but at least pretended to for the sake of public appearances. A handful of companies, however, have decided to ride or die with Putin. You’ll be stunned, just stunned, to know that Koch Industries is among them.

It’s just about money, right?

Oh, for sure! After all, the Koch brothers Charles, 86, and David, dead and burning in hell, are libertarians. That means the most important thing to them is freedom. The freedom to earn unlimited amounts of money at the expense of the environment, people’s lives, morality, and basic human decency. That is why Koch Industries has refused to shut down its operations within Russia. Why do the right thing and lose money when you could not do that and keep the cash flowing? Of course, they say they’re doing it to support the workers but…are they really? The Washington Post sheds some light:



So, no, it’s not really about the workers. There is money at stake. And when your ideology is “mo’ money,” that’s really all that matters. But then again, that’s not really what libertarians are all about, are they? Libertarianism purports to be about freedom from government interference in the market and our lives so the best and brightest will naturally rise to the top. That’s the theory, anyway.

In practice, however, libertarianism accrues all of the power and wealth to those who already have power and wealth, which happens to be rich white men. It’s almost like libertarianism is less the ideology based on meritocracy it claims to be and more a trojan horse for white supremacy and feudalism. Amazingly, the most ardent fans of libertarianism are, can you guess?, White men. Surely a coincidence.



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[lame54]

1. I wish their dad pulled out

[PurgedVoter]

2. Sanction this Oligarch

This family has been agents for Russia for generations.

[LakeArenal]

3. Russians own Republican Wiskochson, Ron Johnson

the Fitzgeralds, Walker, Paul Ryan…..

[mwooldri]

4. Well Biden is kinda doing something about it.

More banks have been sanctioned and the Kocks can't invest any new money there. Those Russian glass plants will become isolated from the rest of the Kock empire. If the Koks did pull out, the Russky government would just take over. Float glass manufacturing is kind of an essential business - everyone needs windows.

Though it is a shame that a company my employer has contracted with for hauling their product won't be more forceful about denouncing pooty boy.

[Get Me Outta Here]

5. One Easy Way To Get Them Out

Just add Russia to this webpage, and, poof, they’re out, and Terrorist Russia is toast:
https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/

[mopinko]

6. sanction them.

good excuse to find a way to take a shot at those assholes.

[PA Democrat]

7. Fred Koch made his fortune building oil refineries for Stalin.

The Kochs have never had a problem doing business with murderous despots.

[7wo7rees]

8. This. Russia is where family fortune was started.