• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    Fair point - but at the same time, in the US, as much as I wish it were not the case, outright seizure of corporate assets outside of flagrant criminal abuse is simply a non-starter. And even then, it often ends up being a non-starter. Sure, they may be forced into bankruptcy, but the government generally never does an actual takeover of a company, because tHaT’s cOMmUniSm. And there are a number of companies that deeply deserve to be taken into custody by the state, at either the federal or state level (PG&E immediately comes to mind).

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      22 days ago

      So your stance is ‘this is bad because other people wont go for it’ and ‘but also there are some other companies/organizations this should happen to’.

      … ?

      I say maybe the government ‘doing a communism’ in the colloquial, horrendously innacurate sense of the word, is infact exactly what we need.

      I don’t care that other people get the ick from this.

      I get the ick from corporations fiscally and environmentally raping us all to death.

      You want a New, New Deal?

      This is approximately what that would look like, at least a part of it.