costco is, deservedly, getting praise for rejecting a racist shareholder proposal from a “conservative think tank,” but i recently did some research about the time AT&T rejected a very similar proposal from a neonazi group in 1988. everything old is new again & we never learn the lesson. - ThreadSky

socialistdogmom.bsky.social • 28 days ago

costco is, deservedly, getting praise for rejecting a racist shareholder proposal from a “conservative think tank,” but i recently did some research about the time AT&T rejected a very similar proposal from a neonazi group in 1988. everything old is new again & we never learn the lesson.

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socialistdogmom.bsky.social•28 days ago

national alliance actually brought their anti-diversity proposal to three consecutive AT&T shareholder meetings! the 3rd time, in 1990, the nazi group sent noted pedophile kevin alfred strom to represent them - the guy who actually said that fake voltaire quote musk loves so much. small world!

apolatus.bsky.social•26 days ago

God that little greaseball is everywhere. It genuinely feels like he had a front row seat to everything horrible in the late 20th century.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•28 days ago

i genuinely do not like how often my research into dumb nazi shit from 30 years ago is directly relevant to current events. i don’t like it at all. this was not my intention when i started the show.

marbenais.bsky.social•28 days ago

I took a class on the Civil War and Reconstruction and truly hated how many contemporary examples of long-term effects I could include in my essays.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•28 days ago

at least once i week lately i find myself thinking a lot of these problems could’ve been avoided if we’d actually finished the project of reconstruction

marbenais.bsky.social•28 days ago

100%

So frustrating to see all those times where they had all the opportunities in the world and yet!

johnnypanic.bsky.social•28 days ago

i love the show and listen each week but uhhh it’s getting harder!

ohlookrain.bsky.social•28 days ago

those who fail to learn from history

are in charge now

bluesregard.bsky.social•28 days ago

but its a great and fun, you're the fun one not the content, look into how the hell we got here and gives some leanings into how we can at leas try and fix it

rfischoff.bsky.social•28 days ago

Americans are accused (The "Old" Economist) of a fault called the American Memory Hole. Not seeing history. Some of the Project 2025 ideas go back more than a century. And the roots of much of the views of the current crop of Nazis, can be found in the Radical Right of the '50s.

squeakins85.bsky.social•28 days ago

Something Something history repeats cuz people are dumb

goad.bsky.social•28 days ago

it's dan friesen witchcraft

squeakins85.bsky.social•28 days ago

He's a goddamn witch! 🤣

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•28 days ago

a gift and a curse

kamyross.bsky.social•28 days ago

I’m finding it disturbing. I was hoping for a distraction from our current dystopia.

scottchap.bsky.social•28 days ago

Great show! Definitely love it but ya… Wish it could be more “quirky by-gone history” and less “current events” but alas

countscrofula.bsky.social•28 days ago

We're at that long predicted moment of corporations dropping cynical progressive posturing for full supervillainy. The fact Costco saying no is newsworthy is uh troubling. Corporate Christmas season is going to get *weird*.

zclaude.bsky.social•28 days ago

Learning is and shall forever be for nerds

katrina-alpress.bsky.social•28 days ago

your account of the AT&T stockholder vote was my very first thought when I heard about this!

pennysmoak.bsky.social•28 days ago

What I can say is the tokenization of a “DEI Department” was never the most productive way; the biggest entities critical of the idea are those that pushed persons not ciswhitehet typical into that department rather than throughout the org & especially leadership.

pennysmoak.bsky.social•28 days ago

Meaning, fuck all of the posers who said they were “doing civil rights” & “everyone had the same chance to succeed” when that was always BS. AND thanks to the critics for being honest about it at the same time. They go harder against equity under the law to distract from wealth restricting liberty.

pennysmoak.bsky.social•28 days ago

Dream: Constitution update/rewrite accepting edits (amendments) as “Current”, 1st removing unlawful language referencing slaves, Chinese Americans, privileging land owners, etc. Should highlight there’s not yet liberty for all. Amend yo replace gendered & racial language first? Something. Doable.

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