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Facebook is a publicly traded mega-corporation. (Original Post) JaneyVee Apr 2016 OP
Huh? AgingAmerican Apr 2016 #1
Just wondering, because... JaneyVee Apr 2016 #5
It's a standard ROVE tactic AgingAmerican Apr 2016 #8
Drinking bottled water... JaneyVee Apr 2016 #11
Months ago. That one's a real winner. HERVEPA Apr 2016 #6
It's also incorporated in Delaware... Scurrilous Apr 2016 #2
That is distrubing. Thanks for posting that. Unicorn Apr 2016 #7
Are they breaking the law and destorying the environment as well as trying to rig elections? Unicorn Apr 2016 #3
Our cellphones... JaneyVee Apr 2016 #10
Monopollies in the Corporate State preclude any viable alternative for the services it provides. nt silvershadow Apr 2016 #4
Facebook is not a bank AgingAmerican Apr 2016 #9
Doesnt Hillary want a "manhattan project" to do battle with apple's evil encrypted snapcats? Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #12
 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
8. It's a standard ROVE tactic
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:51 PM
Apr 2016

They used it heavily during OWS, accusing the protesters of being corporate because they wore clothing and drank bottled water.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
11. Drinking bottled water...
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:56 PM
Apr 2016

Seems a bit different from railing against big data and corporatism while voluntarily submitting all of your info and data to a mega corporation to be used as profit.

And speaking of Rovian tactics http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/bernie-sanders-republicans-myra-adams

 

Unicorn

(424 posts)
3. Are they breaking the law and destorying the environment as well as trying to rig elections?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:49 PM
Apr 2016

Or are you taking the republican line of all liberals are against corporations and not just the corruption?

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
10. Our cellphones...
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:53 PM
Apr 2016

Are made using minerals mined from exploded mountaintops and stripped rainforests by 11 year olds who lose their arms from poisoning, to slave laborers working in suicidal conditions. So yes, they probably are.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
12. Doesnt Hillary want a "manhattan project" to do battle with apple's evil encrypted snapcats?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:59 PM
Apr 2016

i thought Apple was bad!

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