CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even🧵 https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115970651228010281
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Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs —
❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞
❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞
❝find real solutions❞— is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership.
https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies
@inthehands it's truly terrible.
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@grimalkina
Oh wow, I had not even thought about that specific intersection 🤯@inthehands@hachyderm.io @grimalkina@mastodon.social ah, that moment when you're grateful to have had something clarified so perfectly, while also being deeply upset by your newly deepened understanding of certain part events...
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@inthehands @steltenpower Are we talking Bristol Stool Scale here?
@sandorspruit @inthehands Today I Learnt (TIL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
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@inthehands Yepper. And given that *same day* Cook sat in a private screening for "Melania", itself essentially a money-laundering vehicle for Bezo's MGM to the White House, it's beyond mealy mouthed. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/
Fuck Tim Cook
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They are talking about gangs of white supremacist fascists conducting street executions using federal money.
“find real solutions”
my dude
no
@inthehands This is theater aimed at their customers, not the administration. Stop paying them, stop buying their products, march in front of their offices, and you won’t see weak efforts like this. You won’t even hear from them because they’ll be crying directly to Trump, asking for help by demanding change so they can get their customers back (and the money we pay them with).
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@inthehands This is theater aimed at their customers, not the administration. Stop paying them, stop buying their products, march in front of their offices, and you won’t see weak efforts like this. You won’t even hear from them because they’ll be crying directly to Trump, asking for help by demanding change so they can get their customers back (and the money we pay them with).
@mdavis
But if it’s aimed at their customers, they’re aiming incredibly poorly: everybody I’ve talked to here in MN who’s heard of that letter at all just cringed when I mention it.I’m not sure it •is• aimed at customers. At the president? the governor? their investors? each other? their own egos? I’m not sure.
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@grimalkina @inthehands my whole life in the United States has been a long series of Pikachú faces from white people because i don't fear them. even David Bowie feared them and wrote a whole ass song about it. i just don't.
and, just to be clear: this *is* an expectation from GRINGOS, your sundry ugly white american. i have never had this experience in Puerto Rico, Canada or Europe. this is a very specific gringo, white supremacist expectation.
they hate it when you don't fear them.
@blogdiva @grimalkina
One lens for all of Nov 2024 to now is the moving boundary of whiteness: Trump finding some support among Latine voters who believed they had an opportunity to gain the status of whiteness (as my Irish ancestors did); ICE agents and the administration trying to rescind the whiteness of Renee Good and Alex Pretti so they can be murdered with impunity just like the police murder Black people. I don’t have the knowledge to competently work out this whole train of thought and synthesize it with what you said, but…I think there is something there. -
@mdavis
But if it’s aimed at their customers, they’re aiming incredibly poorly: everybody I’ve talked to here in MN who’s heard of that letter at all just cringed when I mention it.I’m not sure it •is• aimed at customers. At the president? the governor? their investors? each other? their own egos? I’m not sure.
@inthehands Fox news watchers.
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@blogdiva @grimalkina
One lens for all of Nov 2024 to now is the moving boundary of whiteness: Trump finding some support among Latine voters who believed they had an opportunity to gain the status of whiteness (as my Irish ancestors did); ICE agents and the administration trying to rescind the whiteness of Renee Good and Alex Pretti so they can be murdered with impunity just like the police murder Black people. I don’t have the knowledge to competently work out this whole train of thought and synthesize it with what you said, but…I think there is something there.@inthehands @blogdiva @grimalkina In Europe, we see this in Ukraine. When people ask if we should be defending Ukraine, what they are really asking is, “are Ukrainians white?”
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@sandorspruit @inthehands Today I Learnt (TIL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
@steltenpower @inthehands You have to know your shit
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CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even
🧵 https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115970651228010281@inthehands @MikeElgan Wow ... this sounds like a globalized bag holder 2026 call for unity to me, idk.
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@blogdiva @grimalkina
One lens for all of Nov 2024 to now is the moving boundary of whiteness: Trump finding some support among Latine voters who believed they had an opportunity to gain the status of whiteness (as my Irish ancestors did); ICE agents and the administration trying to rescind the whiteness of Renee Good and Alex Pretti so they can be murdered with impunity just like the police murder Black people. I don’t have the knowledge to competently work out this whole train of thought and synthesize it with what you said, but…I think there is something there.whiteness, like fascism & capitalism, is very plastic. they are oxymorons: imaginary elite systems of oppression that rule as if they were also representative of the majority they oppress.
you cannot be both a chosen few and a majority. so that’s why they’re always expanding the definitions of who is in and who is out.
and why they can't exist without violence. it’s not just the police state, the whole financial system, starting with money, is violence.
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whiteness, like fascism & capitalism, is very plastic. they are oxymorons: imaginary elite systems of oppression that rule as if they were also representative of the majority they oppress.
you cannot be both a chosen few and a majority. so that’s why they’re always expanding the definitions of who is in and who is out.
and why they can't exist without violence. it’s not just the police state, the whole financial system, starting with money, is violence.
@inthehands @grimalkina @blogdiva
I find it very funny when someone Irish or Italian talks about oppression by saying they weren't even considered white back in the day with no self awareness whatsoever
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@inthehands Yepper. And given that *same day* Cook sat in a private screening for "Melania", itself essentially a money-laundering vehicle for Bezo's MGM to the White House, it's beyond mealy mouthed. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/
@matthew @inthehands A money laundering scheme….perfectly said!
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@inthehands Yepper. And given that *same day* Cook sat in a private screening for "Melania", itself essentially a money-laundering vehicle for Bezo's MGM to the White House, it's beyond mealy mouthed. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/
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@inthehands @MikeElgan Wow ... this sounds like a globalized bag holder 2026 call for unity to me, idk.
️@nicksilkey @inthehands @MikeElgan
Ignore, Laugh, Fight (we're here), win. -
In my experience interacting with them, CEOs are all over the map as human beings — some incredible jerks, some surprisingly decent, a few truly marvelous people — but on the whole, and increasingly so as the company gets larger, they are some of the most fear-driven people I’ve ever met in my life.
@inthehands Do not expect heroism from people who actually give serious consideration to paying for kidnap and ransom insurance policies.
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CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even
🧵 https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115970651228010281I think it’s fair to say that the corporation of every CEO that is stupid enough to say this should be de-escalated out of business
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@inthehands @grimalkina @blogdiva
I find it very funny when someone Irish or Italian talks about oppression by saying they weren't even considered white back in the day with no self awareness whatsoever
euro-americans killed by lynching were mostly jewish, italian, some irish.
THERE IS A REASON IT’S NOT TAUGHT: twas almost always at the bequest of local oligarchs. during the anarchist labor union era it was captains of industry.
what Marx, Dubois, Ignatiev, Irvin Painter have taught us is that by expanding the illusion of privilege, the oligarchy groomed the euro working classes into accepting their oppression as long as BIPOC were worse off than them.
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CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even
🧵 https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115970651228010281@inthehands
If the corporate brand isn't anti-fascist, then maybe the brand *is* fascism. -
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