One of the biggest disappointments of this era has been the cowardice of our business leaders in the face of fascist tyranny.
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I don't know why you'd be "disappointed" that suggests that you expected they'd do better. I never once thought they'd stand up for anything unless it made them more money.
jul 6, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
And their greediness. www.lapresse.ca/affaires/ent...
jul 6, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
Major business and Republican party seems to welcome facism as long as they are in the money.
jul 6, 2025, 10:42 am • 0 0 • view
That's because these business leaders are in on it.
jul 6, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
shareholders should sue the ORANGE TURD for $60 BILLION.
jul 6, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Paramount's new Yellowjackets spinoff, "Yellowexecutives".
jul 6, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
Paramount wants that business merger (tRump needs to approve it)to make more money!! Willing to sell their souls to get it!! The almighty dollar rules these people/ businesses, screw morals, the people, and our country!!!! Money comes first!!!
jul 6, 2025, 4:06 am • 8 0 • view
“business leaders” are exactly who piloted the ship into this catastrophe. capitalists’ ideology destroys everything including their families futures.
jul 6, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
It's not cowardice It's greed, which is even worse. Fascism and Capitalism are old lovers, after all. Every system has its dark partner, and Fascism is Capitalism's
jul 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
extortion-- sheer extortion
jul 6, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
How I ended, with the quickness, my subscription to Paramount+ *ahead* of the upcoming final season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I’ll wait until the season is over, the DVD/BluRay hits my Public Library, abd I check it out. #fuckyouParamount
jul 6, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Agree, no "leadership" in sight. On the other hand, maybe that is exactly what we should expect from people who have chosen to dedicate their lives to making as much money as possible without any concern about the impact of their actions on their communities or environment.
jul 6, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
In Bulgaria we have a major party leader calling live in the morning talkshow and given air time to beraate the political opponent in the studio, alongside crushing selfcensorship of the major tv networks. It took us about 10 yrs to ruin media in such a climate. You will get there, no worries.
jul 6, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view
Not only cowardice, but indifference. I'm an attorney. NOT ONE of my business clients is concerned that our govt is being overrun by fascists. Just like German businesses in 1933-45. "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
jul 6, 2025, 6:57 am • 4 0 • view
jul 6, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 0 • view
Paramount. FOOL.
jul 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
Disappointing, to be sure--but hardly surprising.
jul 6, 2025, 9:38 am • 1 1 • view
Unquestionably a bunch of pussies. The payout is alarming but not as alarming as the knowledge that anything they publish/print/screen in the future will be tainted by this capitulation and by their eagerness to please King Shit. Just one more fucking company I have to figure out how to boycott.
jul 6, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
Have there ever been any cases in history where the business class as a whole stood up to a domestic fascist takeover when the fascists occupied all the key high offices of the state?
jul 6, 2025, 4:18 am • 2 0 • view
This is what Capitalism comes to. They’re not cowering necessarily just to cower. They’re doing it because anti capitalist sentiment is growing and they need a strong arm to cement power for them. They’ll do anything to keep their money and businesses while the fascist does whatever he wants.
jul 6, 2025, 4:39 am • 1 0 • view
Good. This a ridiculous blackmail to get their merger to pass.
jul 6, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
This shouldn't be a surprise. Larry Ellison (Oracle) is leading the SkyDance merger with his son. Larry is a key partner in the $500B Stargate initiative that gives federal artificial intelligence infrastructure with vast capabilities; this is the oligarchy at work. kidscreen.com/2024/09/06/l...
jul 6, 2025, 4:09 am • 4 0 • view
More on this. The article describes David Ellison's desire to move bias toward right-leaning content. No surprise. This is media manipulation, plain and simple. nypost.com/2025/07/06/b...
jul 6, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, forgot about that one. We need a diagram to keep all these wacko creepy billionaires straight. Note how much they are enriching themselves at the public money trough.
jul 6, 2025, 4:32 am • 1 1 • view
White Billionaires cowering is an astonishing level of acquiescence
jul 6, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
The settlement clears up any issues of Paramount’s sought-out merger with Skydance Media, which needs approval from the Trump administration. It was a quid pro quo. All the politicians and billionaires do it.
jul 6, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 1 • view
yes these are entities who have the money and power to stand up to him
jul 6, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They lead businesses. They will follow the money. Trump is stealing all the money ergo...
jul 6, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view
The sad history of fascism is that the industrialist are always behind it. Always.
jul 6, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It's good to know when Trump has barricaded himself in the White House surrounded by his personal ICE army.. 60 minutes will run a fluff piece called "Maybe a 3rd term?" Breathlessly extolling why Trump should stay in power..
jul 6, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly the same thing happened when the Nazis came to power. “It is not our job/responsibility to oppose the government, we are here to serve our shareholders”. Don’t expect help from those quarters.
jul 6, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
At this point, we've really got to start boycotting companies who bend the knee. I mean...yes, it's inconvenient, but, unless it's life and death, these self-serving cowards need to hear The People.
jul 6, 2025, 5:28 am • 25 2 • view
I never had a Paramount+ account and now I have no problem boycotting CBS.
jul 6, 2025, 7:31 am • 1 0 • view
I've cancelled the Washington Post, which I subscribed to for years. And I'm trying very hard not to buy anything at all from Amazon, but I can't find another source anywhere else for my odd-sized furnace filters.
jul 6, 2025, 6:25 am • 3 0 • view
NYT & WaPo are dead to me. (Former decades-long subscriber.) Same for LA Times. These once-respected publications sold their soul to the devil. Right-wing distortions & normalization of insanity, not just in opinion pieces but in news coverage. Bezos no longer runs Amazon, so there's that.
jul 6, 2025, 7:03 am • 2 0 • view
jul 6, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Why is this surprising? the liberal centrist capitalist class will always side with fascists when it comes to protecting their own class interests over everything else. It is the fish hook theory in action - at this point it is more than a theory, it is an observable scientific fact.
jul 6, 2025, 8:49 am • 1 0 • view
The far left should actually be drawn way up in the clouds. It could still just about work as a fish hook.
jul 6, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
BY LAW a CEO’s first responsibility is to the “fiscal wellbeing of their shareholders”. Meaning BY LAW they have to capitulate to the law, regardless of how corrupt it has become. This is what Neoliberalism has given us. What did anyone expect?? Capitalism breeds self-interest.
jul 6, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
No, that's a distorted description. Just to cite one example: Shareholders can overrule a CEO and decide that the long-term fiscal well-being of the company is best served by not capitulating to fascism.
jul 6, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
True - I didn’t say shareholders don’t have rights, bet let’s be honest, when have shareholders ever been asked to vote to make their profits secondary?? A CEO would VERY RARELY bring that to the table. When profit is first, EVERYTHING else is secondary. It’s pretty simple.
jul 6, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 6, 2025, 6:49 am • 1 2 • view
Yes absolutely Donnie acts like a mob boss and just keeps threatening people till that give in or this cult followers do the same 🤬 to keep on the good books with him or suffer 😡
jul 6, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Cowardice? Or complicity?
jul 6, 2025, 5:11 am • 0 0 • view
For something to be a disappointment you first need to find it surprising.
jul 6, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I held out hope they wouldn’t cave like ABC did. ☹️
jul 6, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
It would have been cheaper to just put out a contract.
jul 6, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
and makes their output untrustworthy, presuming it will promote 47's agenda in fear of being accused of "making him look bad" - not to mention any news outlet in their sphere. Just like capitulating law firms who are no longer trusted to work for their CLIENT if it opposes 47 47's anti-MIdas touch
jul 6, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
Agree.
jul 6, 2025, 10:27 am • 0 0 • view
When this is all over, remember this, because everyone will tell you they stood up against him. It's 1934 all over again.
jul 6, 2025, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
Haha haha haha dumbasses!
jul 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
The grifter taking even more money. Piece of shit.
jul 6, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
In all this "land of the free" country, there's only Harvard that's brave enough to fight.
jul 6, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
Yay for the shareholder lawsuit.
jul 6, 2025, 5:03 am • 1 0 • view
But the business leaders are loud ASF right now plotting against Zohran Mamdani in NY it's fcking disgusting 😡
jul 6, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
The fuck!?! Cowards!!
jul 6, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
They always do it. Throughout history, the elites of a society have thrown in their lot with whoever is the dominant power. Patriotism, loyalty, right and wrong tossed out in exchange for advantage and selfishness. Doesn’t matter whether the new rulers are from within or external invaders.
jul 6, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view
Is a shareholder suit really expected? I’d assume the shareholders were more interested in completing the Skydance merger. And $16M is pocket change.
jul 6, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
I've made this point repeatedly. It always seems to fall on deaf ears. As if "of course" Business doesn't care about anything but itself.
jul 6, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Many Irish families sided with the British for centuries. We still hold their names in shame and these board members will be remembered only in shame also
jul 6, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
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jul 6, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Biz leaders for four-decades-gawd-sake are major gears (PACs>Super PAC) in the fascist machine. They finally decide the cost/benefit of funding just MAGA better than all of congress for sake of “democracy” sham (esp after a Black man was voted prez!) White foot (feet) down!
jul 7, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
The same happened here in Germany during the Nazi regime. (Big) Business, at its core, only cares about business and the bottom line. Any progressive signaling is only an opportunistic veneer to maximize said bottom line.
jul 6, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 0 • view
And in a different political climate, the production lines that made the Pride color palette home decor set now produce gas for the … you know … We need to step away from the idea that money equals success because it only leads to pain and suffering. And an uninhabitable planet.
jul 6, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 0 • view
More folks need to boycott Paramount/CBS/etc. They chose. If you keep sending money to them when you have a choice not to, then you chose the same. Walmart is similar ... food deserts and all. You may not be able to choose elsewhere. But cable/streaming/movies? That's all up to you.
jul 6, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
You know George, you do not have to live in the United States, right. Nothing is stopping you from moving to another country.
jul 6, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
The Boards of the media companies should be fired for not understanding simple thing kids in schoolyard figure out quickly... give in to a bully, they keep taking and taking.
jul 6, 2025, 11:26 am • 1 0 • view
Because business leaders profit off of fascist tyranny.
jul 6, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
No business leaders exist
jul 6, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Capitalism is fine separated from government influence, but let it in and it makes us all slave to whatever currency it's operating with.
jul 6, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view
especially when its a lawsuit Paramount would easily have won
jul 6, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Business leaders don’t mind fascism. They have a partner in the American Fascist Party.
jul 6, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
Polite of you to call them "leaders"
jul 6, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
You can call the business leaders cowards. But it is not even close to true for the majorityof them. The truth is that the majority are gleeful giddy magas.
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
Trump will come for them. No worries.
jul 6, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 6, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 6, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
"There are strange unrecognized forms of prostitution, compared to which actual prostitution is a honest business ... " H. Böll
jul 6, 2025, 6:54 am • 1 0 • view
LARRY ELLISON SON- BILLIONAIRE CEO to SKYDANCE
jul 6, 2025, 10:02 am • 1 0 • view
That is definitely why. Ellison is a Trump supporter.
jul 6, 2025, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
Our business leaders are in on it. Look up “Dark Enlightenment.”
jul 6, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It's all about bribing with trump. CBS is looking at a deal that requires federal approval.
jul 6, 2025, 10:11 am • 0 0 • view
Ripping America off.
jul 6, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Business leaders will side with whoever allows them to exist .
jul 6, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
I’d say the biggest is the failure of the media.
jul 6, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
MAGA censors at all news outlets soon
jul 6, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Just so he’d have their merger approved, cowards
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
keep speaking truth George!!
jul 6, 2025, 4:04 am • 2 0 • view
Who cares about business leaders, or who was expecting any different from them. The real disappointment is public sector, which meekly obeys everything their superiors order. "Erase the entire progress of last few decades? No problem boss, at once".
jul 6, 2025, 4:10 am • 1 0 • view
Corruption has become so normal for this administration. He personally benefits, by tens of millions of dollars, from being President. 40 million for a Melania documentary, about 100 million in 'settlements'. It's horrifying
jul 6, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
Not wanting too be sued by likelt a corrupt court, don't give the rapist money, disgusting, shits in the face of his victims.
jul 6, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
It's a bribe. Pay off the dear leader, and he won't interfere with your profiting by helping to sell his bullshit. Just don't get in my way?
jul 6, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, make bowing to TACO more expensive and devastating!
jul 6, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
Another disappointment is how few American based celebrities with massive fan followings are not using that advantage to educate them; stand up and speak out everything wrong with their govt. There are still folks who have no clue how bad it will get. Get out to mobilize with their fellow citizens.
jul 6, 2025, 4:44 am • 1 0 • view
You called them leaders and they are not.
jul 6, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view
Sadly George business “leaders” are among the most cowardly people you will meet. They are only tough to subordinates. They bring in consultants to do the “tough” stuff like “ lowering headcount” to enrich themselves and to tell you they “need” to make the shareholders happy.
jul 6, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of our “business leaders” are nepo babies who never had to work a day in their lives and never had to worry about fixing anything. Their lives don’t teach them anything other than selfishness.
jul 6, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view
Cowardice by many has been foundation for what is now being built and what is being allowed to be torn down.
jul 6, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
"Disappointed that the tiger didn’t protect us from its cub" No offence but for people supposed to enjoy it so much, Americans don’t understand anything about capitalism (and how it invariably devolves into fascism).
jul 6, 2025, 10:34 am • 1 0 • view
CBS was the only one of the old big three that I still watched. Now I have to say goodbye to it and some of my favorite TV series. 👋 Including Colbert. Bummer.
jul 6, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
If that was a worthy lawsuit then all the democrats can sue fox and make billions
jul 6, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
Context is important. Paramount+ was in the middle of a sale for months before Trump came along to extort them by sending the FCC after them. It is unfortunate they settled but the real problem remains corrupt SCOTUS/FOTUS and now the DOJ leadership.
jul 6, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
…or even the cowardice of our business leaders to support responsible, governing politicians who can take care of the economy like adults. The greedy cowardice isn’t even practical or reality based anymore. Look at Target getting rid of DEI. Their customers hated it and they lost money.
jul 6, 2025, 7:14 am • 1 0 • view
Business leaders brought us here. The owner class will always prefer authoritarian dystopia to a free working class. They want control and power gaps, not what's best for everyone and themselves.
jul 6, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
Check history and I think you’ll find that business leaders in Germany profited from Hitler’s regime, while it lasted.
jul 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
You spelled "complicity" wrong.
jul 6, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
And isn't it coincidental that of all the major networks, only CBS covered the orange buffoon's Evita-inspired speech from the balcony.
jul 6, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen! Given up on them! Huge disappointment!
jul 6, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
Can someone buy Star Trek back from them please 😢
jul 6, 2025, 5:13 am • 1 0 • view
Do you know got much executives at German companies made in the 1930s? They cared about one thing: profits.
jul 6, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Good, he can send the check directly to E. Jean Carroll, so he can start paying what he owes HER.
jul 6, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
J.F.C. is there any frivolous absolute bullshit lawsuit this disgusting asshole cant get away with? I guess when you have as much money as these mega corporations do $16 million is like 16 cents---its fucking deplorable on an epically disgusting scale.
jul 6, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely This capitulation is absolute cowardice.
jul 6, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Ever network crops and cuts there stuff! Specially fuax propaganda !
jul 6, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
Those business leaders, would not be where they are without the people.
jul 6, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view
No surprise, business always follows power & money. It was the same in WWI + WWII.
jul 6, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
How about a shareholder dump?
jul 6, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Shocking & disgusting!🤦🏻♀️ #FDJT🖕🤬🖕
jul 6, 2025, 4:02 am • 2 0 • view
you can say that again
jul 6, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
The USA is kaput ... no more democracy (not that it was sound anyway with gerrymandering and voter suppression commonplace) ... but courts, congress and now corporations bowing down to #TheOrangeMenace dictator ... how long before US citizens are disappeared to #AlligatorAuschwitz !!
jul 6, 2025, 4:15 am • 2 0 • view
They're not here to be brave, they're here to make money. Every valuable profession has been infiltrated by money grubbing cowards, even - maybe especially - journalism.
jul 6, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not cowardice, it's what will make them the most money.
jul 6, 2025, 9:07 am • 1 0 • view
They choose the lesser evil: if their clients (us) would made the boycott they deserve in the face of such a bending towards the Regime, then they would pretend to have values...
jul 6, 2025, 4:09 am • 1 0 • view
They will regret their cowardess
jul 6, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
Yep they are all weak and pointless. We knew that tho.
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
They're just trying to avoid tension at the country club 🙄
jul 6, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Bezos/butt-kisser/WashPost Zuck/traitor/Meta Cook/muzzled/Apple All of Wall St.
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 1 0 • view
It’s f’ing RIDICULOUS!!!
jul 6, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
It’s all about the money or sex. Every. Single. Time.
jul 6, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
No George, the biggest disappointment is how spineless liberals are to fight a real fight. Always waiting on someone else to save them. Every bitch ass liberal I talk to says they are "waiting" for something big to happen. There was no big thing when the Nazis took power. It was subtle.
jul 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
It is not their role to be brave, is it?
jul 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
Trump sues in his sleep. How many suits has he filed that turned to 💩?
jul 6, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
If I were a Paramount subscriber I wouldn’t be any longer.
jul 6, 2025, 5:06 am • 2 0 • view
For me it’s the cowardice of elected politicians, most of whom have more money than their constituents even dream of having, and they are still willing to debase themselves for more.
jul 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe someday Paramount will make a film about The Greatest Grifter Ever Told. An alternative title could be: The Power of Presidential Extortion.
jul 6, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
What did you expect????😕
jul 6, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
💯 Organizations like the Business Roundtable or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce could’ve leveraged strength in numbers and chose not to.
jul 6, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. We're going to cancel Paramount as soon as we can.
jul 6, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
i see no reason business leaders of today shoukd behave any differently than business leaders of 1930’s and 40’s germany. greed really does seem to trump all.
jul 6, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s because they profit off of it
jul 6, 2025, 4:05 am • 6 0 • view
They're trying to complete a merger or sale & the lawsuit was impinging on that happening.
jul 6, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, real patriots deserving of our loyalty.
jul 6, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view
Must suck to know paramount puts on the best shows: Ghosts and Star Trek.
jul 6, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
Shocking
jul 6, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
Corporations have no souls, so we shouldn't expect them to have morals either.
jul 6, 2025, 4:03 am • 6 0 • view
Because…wait for it…corporations are not people snd money is not free speech.
jul 6, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
cowards
jul 6, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
Good heavens! I already boycott movies with fascist leads and directors etc.. Now I've got to avoid entire studios? Just as well. I've got a big stack of banned books awaiting my attention.
jul 6, 2025, 4:55 pm • 3 0 • view
i mean... fascism is extreme capitalism. why would CEOs stand up to tyranny when they could suck its dick and hope for the best instead?? were you under the impression these guys had half a brain enough to see past the trap?
jul 6, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
Cowardice and greed.
jul 6, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. And we the people WON'T FORGET IT!!
jul 6, 2025, 9:18 am • 3 0 • view
When we're finally thru this horrible test of our country, they must all appropriately shamed in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee...
jul 6, 2025, 4:04 am • 13 0 • view
What makes you think that this is something you will get "through"? And how?
jul 6, 2025, 4:06 am • 7 0 • view
Revolution, Slavery, Civil War, World War, Trump 1...we've been thru worse than Drumpf and his band of incels can throw at us. I'm half black, optimism is in the DNA...
jul 6, 2025, 4:53 am • 7 0 • view
Yeah it's disappointing, but is it surprising? History has shown that business and autocracy tend to work well together.
jul 7, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view
How to utterly devalue a business in one fell swoop...
jul 6, 2025, 7:37 am • 0 0 • view
Incorrect. It’s the loss of the once noble journalist integrity that wouldn’t partake in politically based character assassination.
jul 6, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
He is a winner...he is winning in all fronts and the GOP is cheering on....The rich loves him.
jul 6, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
Disappointing, because one always holds out hope, but not in the least bit surprising, because one is, after all, not blind to reality.
jul 6, 2025, 7:38 am • 0 0 • view
Not surprised but still disappointed
jul 6, 2025, 4:03 am • 3 0 • view
When Paramount did not immediately respond with "Screw you, see you in court.", I canceled my Paramount+ subscription. Sorry George, I will have to find somewhere besides Paramount÷ and Pluto to watch you on OG Star Trek.
jul 6, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Fascism is corporatism on steroids. Basically the opposite of every flavor of socialism.
jul 6, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Also known as a backhanded BRIBE added to the boycott list
jul 6, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
Money is important to live. Lots of money is nice to have. Extraordinarily amounts of money will absolutely corrupt men and women who are complacent about human life. We must take care of our children and our parents and grandparents. We must take care of the sick and the poor.
jul 6, 2025, 5:00 am • 1 0 • view
money is the most ridiculous invention humans ever made. it is worthless. no other species on 🌍 needs money to live, why should we? it is a conditional concept and brings 99 problems to this world.
jul 6, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
You are so right…why do we need…
jul 6, 2025, 5:10 am • 1 0 • view
I canceled paramount. I will cancel all cowards😉
jul 6, 2025, 1:53 pm • 3 0 • view
It's part of the system. IBM gave data logistics support for the Holocaust. Allianz insured concentration camps. Volkswagen built the people's car for the Fuhrer's pleasure. Businesses are inherently NOT driven by morality.
jul 6, 2025, 7:57 am • 0 0 • view
He uses mafioso tactics. He is making valid threats, has bribed them, or has had his thugs hurt them, their families, or property. Check the trades from LA May (iirc) ‘79 to see how long he has gotten away with just that.
jul 6, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems to be the new era we are in. Can no longer see media companies as news agencies. Journalistic standards have been sacrificed in favor of ratings and revenue! Unfortunately educational theory, standards & independent thinking are close behind!
jul 6, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 6, 2025, 4:02 am • 21 0 • view
As someone who usually bitches about the noise pollution (& the stress fireworks cause vets, ppl with sensitivity issues, and animals) I was beyond shocked that what normally sounds like a war zone outside my place was silent last night AND tonight. First time it's ever happened. No fireworks. None.
jul 6, 2025, 4:33 am • 4 0 • view
If I had a US flag I would've flipped it. I do not have one, and I'm NOT buying one. So instead I flew a Union Jack on the 4th.
jul 6, 2025, 4:24 am • 11 0 • view
Oh, shade!! Well done, very well played.
jul 6, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
Damn I should do this next year. I usually put up a whole flag display out front of my home with over 30 flags but not this year (I’ll still do it on 9/11 as I have every year since 2002) but using the Union Jack is petty & pettiness speaks to my soul.
jul 6, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It was more out of practicality...since I'm not giving money to any company that produces US flags. And it was the best statement I could possibly make on July 4.
jul 7, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
It was still brilliant.
jul 7, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed we should. How can we ever hope to move forward when we haven’t learned anything? 1. Billionaires bad. 2. Corruption bad. 3. Nazis bad. 4. Techno-fascist bros bad. 5. Creepy think tank dudes bad. 6. Putin pulling strings bad …
jul 6, 2025, 4:30 am • 1 0 • view
And could someone please explain how our people going over Russia for “meetings” then coming back & doing anti-American things is not treason?
jul 6, 2025, 4:30 am • 1 0 • view
is it cowardice? Or is it collaboration?
jul 6, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
It's collusion.
jul 6, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
Personally I'm of the opinion that collusion makes it sound like corporations are not proudly open about ushering in fascism. And the record tends to show that they make no attempt to hide their support for Trump and the GOP.
jul 6, 2025, 4:40 am • 2 0 • view
We have scarcity of leaders especially in the silent majority. We see huge protests but I fond them optics as none is seen after. This authoritative govt has huge rich funders who have waited for this to happen.
jul 6, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
Just cancelled my subscription
jul 6, 2025, 10:46 am • 1 0 • view
they only care about the money in their pockets, potential or otherwise. their behavior lately has been to be expected.
jul 6, 2025, 8:16 am • 2 0 • view
How do these companies get to be so successful with such cowards at the helm?
jul 6, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Is it cowardice or willing compliant capitulation?
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 3 1 • view
His ludicrous victory gives his regime legitimacy..
jul 6, 2025, 4:56 am • 1 0 • view
Don’t American businesses have a history of this. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Henry Ford do business with the Nazis??
jul 6, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
it's a CAPITULATION BUT EVEN MORE PATHETIC IS THAT ITS A QUID PRO QUO..REDSTONE GIVES PISSHEAD 16 MILLION OF SOMEONE ELSES MONEY..SO PARAMOUNT CAN BUY SKYDANCE AND MAKE SHARI can add to her billions..🤮
jul 6, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
It’s a $16m extortion to guarantee a merger will happen. This administration makes the grift of others look like peanuts
jul 6, 2025, 1:09 pm • 4 1 • view
and the cowardice of corporate media is the worst!
jul 6, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Business leaders have always been opportunists of the first class.
jul 6, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
Huge disappointment of epic proportions.
jul 6, 2025, 4:38 am • 9 1 • view
Business leaders benefit from fascism. History tells us that. They will realize their grave mistake too late.
jul 6, 2025, 6:22 am • 1 0 • view
The US isn't a Christian country, it's a greed country. As long as folks gets what they want they will validate the selfishness as morally acceptable. Once you recognize that the only thing important to everyone is material wealth only then you may finally find the strength to change and do good.
jul 6, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
I don't need to tell you which historical equivalent this brings to mind.
jul 6, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
I would also add that the flip side of the coin for the biggest disappointments of this era has been the advocacy, support, and promotion of our business leaders in the face of fascist tyranny.
jul 6, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
jul 8, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Something similar might be described in William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Chapter 6 The Last Days of the Republic, or 7 The Nazification of Germany. But who knows - Americans can be a real pain in the ass. 😶
jul 6, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
Is this really surprising? Still? After all the evidence accumulated over decades? Its just business. And this is the cost of doing business in the Trump era. To assign any kind of morality to capitalism is a horrible mistake.
jul 6, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
"Shareholder suit expected" I'm really glad to see that. Rake those coward over the coals!
jul 6, 2025, 4:34 am • 1 0 • view
disappointed mostly because it was predictable ... we were hoping for better but no one should have ever thought they would give up power or money ... no one ever does
jul 6, 2025, 8:22 am • 0 0 • view
Trump using Hitler style tactics to control the media. "Make them pay or make them bleed"
jul 6, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Business by its nature and fiduciary duty will deal with the devil.
jul 6, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
1st ABC....2nd CBS.....next NBC? I remember the days when the 3 major networks had integrity and were a source of trusted news....I guess not since 2015.....and the King decided to run.
jul 6, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
They are driven by greed.
jul 6, 2025, 5:36 am • 0 0 • view
Cowardice isn't the right word. They're simply doing what a corporation in a greed based capitalistic system does...do whatever is necessary to increase profits for the shareholders no matter what.
jul 6, 2025, 4:12 am • 1 0 • view
When the people take back our country, watch as these same businesses try to say: "Hey we were with you the whole time".
jul 6, 2025, 9:53 am • 0 0 • view
It’s not cowardice. Fascism is good for business. At least in the short-term. Just look at Hugo Boss (made all the Nazi uniforms), Mercedes (Hitler’s favorite car), IG Farben (made Zyklon B)… and many more. It’s a calculated, profit-driven, decision.
jul 7, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
Cancel paramount + and state this is why when asked in the online comments section
jul 6, 2025, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
Indeed!
jul 6, 2025, 4:04 am • 2 0 • view
Business leaders? Who do you think made Trump possible and bankrolled him? Business leaders wanted us to stay loyal to the King, we fought them. Business leaders wanted slavery to remain, we fought them. They wanted the 7-day workweek, we fought them. They've never been our allies.
jul 6, 2025, 3:48 pm • 4 0 • view
It has been instructive, and explains how Nazis rose to power in Germany. I foolishly thought all we knew about Nazi Germany would be remembered when it mattered, but no. Human nature hasn’t changed.
jul 6, 2025, 6:25 am • 1 0 • view
Cowardice and utter complicity in their own self-intere$$$t.
jul 6, 2025, 5:32 am • 4 0 • view
Gotta pay E. Jean Caroll somehow and since his home shopping “memorabilia” is tanking he’s gotta “sue baby sue”
jul 6, 2025, 5:18 am • 1 0 • view
agreed, emphasis on the greed
jul 6, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
It's not cowardice to these entities; it's a business model.
jul 6, 2025, 10:53 am • 1 0 • view
George, business leaders arent cowards towards fascism, they are sponsors of it, fascism is their panic button whenever a crysis is on the horizon, and yes, fascism is illogical and even more contradictory than capitalism, so it can lead to the even faster destruction of their own businesses
jul 6, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view