what is the actual reason then, and how can you tell people are revolting?
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ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Are you expecting corporations to tell you about it when they do?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The current situation started with Occupy speaking out about banking practices, when large corporations failed due to their own greed, and our governments just handed them money to save them from the consequences of their own decisions. That made it abundantly clear the entire economy is rigged against the average person. You can get a rough idea of what’s happening by paying attention to how the corporate media has been whipping people into a frenzy, working relentlessly to demonize certain demographics. It might be harder to see it these days, but the current state of the media is absolutely nothing like it was prior to 2008.
yokonzo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, kind of hard to cover up a shooting or bombing in a public office building, I can bet that if Google got attacked it would be all over the news
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except there was literally a shooting at Google Headquarters a few years ago and the news has done everything they can to memory-hole the event because it didn’t fit the outrage bait narratives they love to perpetuate.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How do those things actually accomplish anything against corporate interests though? One of the issues with corporations is that they have many layers of grunts in public facing places so that the people actually in charge are never even exposed to the public. The fact that people’s minds immediately go to the least effective, most self destructive, methods possible to oppose such systems is a symptom of corporate media controlling the narrative. Occupy represented an actual threat to their control, and that’s exactly why corporations have became intensely interested in divisive social issues ever since.