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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” —Justice Louis Brandeis

With his $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has made clear his determination to dominate every facet of mass retailing, likely at the cost of massive layoffs in the $800 billion supermarket sector.
But this, if anything, understates the ambitions of America’s new ruling class, almost entirely based in San Francisco and Seattle, as it moves to take over industries from entertainment and transportation to energy and space exploration that once thrived and competed outside the reach of the oligarchy.

DrDonkeyLove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:31 am
In a way it helps explain why Trump took the votes of so many working class Dems. Poses an interesting time of change for Democrats. Are they still the party of the working class or have they become the party of the oligarchs and identity politics? (psssstttt, it's not the working people).

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, long the country’s most overtly progressive company, is now no longer progressive enough for progressives.

Over the weekend, “scores” of activists marched on Ben & Jerry’s Vermont factory, demanding that the company push for better wages and working conditions for migrant workers on Vermont’s dairy farms. Social justice warrior blogs excoriated the company for failing to live up to its own progressive rhetoric.

Apparently, two years ago, Ben & Jerry’s promised to take part in the “Milk With Dignity” program (weirdly, not “Dairy With Dignity,” which would have been catchier). The campaign asks major corporations that use milk in their food products to work to ensure migrant workers who help produce the milk are treated fairly.

But because Ben and Jerry are, at heart, dirty capitalists, they began negotiations with the organizations, to structure their commitment in such a way that it protected their bottom line. They also claimed to the Washington Post that they wanted to get real details on farm worker treatment from the migrants themselves, so that the agreement could be realistic.

DrDonkeyLove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:31 am
Much like the robber barons of a century ago, Musk, Schmidt, Zuckerberg, the Steyer brothers, Bezos & friends only have the best of intentions.

The wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attempted to evict 16 disabled residents from a group home facility when, as president of now-defunct Burlington College, she was trying to negotiate the multimillion-dollar acquisition of 33 acres of prime real estate and a building owned by the local Roman Catholic Diocese.

Judicial Watch obtained a letter from Jane Sanders to an attorney, Todd Centybear, who represented the group home at the time of the ill-fated transaction.

In the letter, Sanders expresses frustration that the disabled residents would not leave the premises.

“It is simply not fair to expect the College to continue to carry the burden of the expenses associated with housing both your population and ours until February 2012,” Jane Sanders wrote, according to Judicial Watch.

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:12 pmShe is what Bernie says Trump is.

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:30 pm A guy whose wife picks on the disabled isn't gonna make it out of the primary

dead man walking wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 3:38 pm

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:30 pm A guy whose wife picks on the disabled isn't gonna make it out of the primary

you mean like jump mocking the disabled reporter? yeah, that totally set him back.

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:12 pm

Judicial Watch obtained a letter from Jane Sanders to an attorney Todd Centybear, who represented the group home at the time of the ill-fated transaction.

dead man walking wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:56 pm the jane sanders fan club is not large, but the thing that seems to have got some bernie people pissed is his unexpected millionaire status (royalties from his book) and his new lakefront vacation home.

it's possible that jane's imitation of a capitalist will hurt bernie some, bit i have a hard time seeing a republican taking his seat.

if this moment of modest pain for bernie gets you hard, i don't want to spoil your fun. wank away.

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, long the country’s most overtly progressive company, is now no longer progressive enough for progressives.

Over the weekend, “scores” of activists marched on Ben & Jerry’s Vermont factory, demanding that the company push for better wages and working conditions for migrant workers on Vermont’s dairy farms. Social justice warrior blogs excoriated the company for failing to live up to its own progressive rhetoric.

Apparently, two years ago, Ben & Jerry’s promised to take part in the “Milk With Dignity” program (weirdly, not “Dairy With Dignity,” which would have been catchier). The campaign asks major corporations that use milk in their food products to work to ensure migrant workers who help produce the milk are treated fairly.

But because Ben and Jerry are, at heart, dirty capitalists, they began negotiations with the organizations, to structure their commitment in such a way that it protected their bottom line. They also claimed to the Washington Post that they wanted to get real details on farm worker treatment from the migrants themselves, so that the agreement could be realistic.

Cave Canem wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:55 pm I thought the original Ben and Jerry sold out to some corporation years ago.