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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Time for a rewatch!

Robocop 1987

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Robocop is fantastic sci-fi, but this comparison to reality kind of falls apart right at the beginning with the part of corporations helping rioters. Has that ever actually happened? Is there any real evidence of that at all? Corporations have a long history of crushing riots, strikes, and protests with private security forces, such as the Pinkertons. Large corporations are also frequent donors to police departments and police projects. They’d much rather just buy buildings in the part of town that already has low property values and jack-up the prices to a tenant without any recourse but to move out or pay up, even if that means many apartments will sit empty for long stretches at a time.

[–] Maturin 5 points 1 year ago

Philadelphia would like to have a word

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You have a point.

They do crush unions and keep wages low.

They still inforce the Pinkertons for union breaking, forgot if they changed the name...

Social media and news is controlled by a few billionaires. They determine what is censored and what is okay to talk about. Always dividing the people into tribes, so as to distract us with identity politics and culture wars.

Not as direct as in Robocop but it is there. Greedy politicians/lobbiests/executives working for the oligarchy keeping the working class divided and fighting each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Corporations will shut down protests that fucks with their profit margins, but if it can make them some more money, then thats a different story.

Remember that these corporations have been getting away with worse things than manipulating riots and like if Nestlé can get away with everything they've ever done and nothing of consequence happen to them, then it's plausible to believe that corporations have financed and fuled riots to serve their own interests.

We aren't people to them, we're a commodity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suggest Sam O'Nella Academy's video "Banana Republics" for more information

[–] winterayars 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends on what kind of riot, really. I'm sure what's depicted in the movie has happened at some point (recently in Venezuela, perhaps?) but it's definitely not the common version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Venezuela? Fucking asshole