Putting aside whether you agree or disagree with what disney is pushing here, what's relevant is that it's obviously not "struggling to dominate a competitive environment". They're admitting it on record that revenue is not their primary objective. Two possible reasons:

1. Their CEO is out of control - expect board or shareholder action.
2. They have a stream of "dark revenue" which depends on them towing a certain party line.

I think what's going on here is the FED has become politicized and is giving QE money to loyalists.
I the ESG compliance is required for investments to not be pulled
I guess a plausible explanation is that this all boils down to dumb boomers who want to make sure their retirement account isn't "destroying the planet", and money managers are telling them what they want to hear while destroying their retirement.
The problem with this hypothesis is if it were just this, then you would have companies doing the minimum to look like they're ESG but without taking any steps that could hurt their bottom line.

What we're seeing is the exact opposite, companies doing the maximum to hurt their bottom line which only tangentially relates to the principles of ESG anyway.

I find it far more realistic that bailouts, stimulus, and QE have been converted into grift, and companies are not concerned with profit, only towing the party line so they can get some.

@LibreSolutionsNetwork @cjd @thatguyoverthere It’s bizarre that #Disney (a strictly conservative right-wing corp which even financed the war chest of an extreme anti-gun-control republican politician) would give a rat’s ass about ESG. In principle the only people who should be investing in Disney are also those who are already socially irresponsible w/no sense of ethics w.r.t the environment.

Dems and repubs are the left and right hand of the same beast

Disney is owned by the same banks and investors that own everything else.

@thatguyoverthere @cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork The shareholders in that clip you posted are all very much right-wing (of the ones I recognize).

You are getting hung up on labels. Black Rock CEO is sitting on the WEF pushing esg heavy.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/larry-fink
This video is excellent. This is actually nothing new, but the problem has gotten progressively worse. When I was in my 20s there were already only about 10 conglomerates that owned about 90% of brands

@thatguyoverthere @mystik @cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork Just saw that video which peddles a right-wing #conspiracyTheory littered w/the claim “this is not a conspiracy theory”, yet that’s exactly what it is. While there are a lot of truths in that video, the speaker wants you take some giant leaps of faith as he weaves a bullshit narrative into it. He tries not to state the wild claims as he prefers viewers to fill in the blanks.

> video which peddles a right-wing #conspiracyTheory

I didn't even watch it, but you really shouldn't say the exact thing people say when they have no rational counter-argument.

At this point, the "it's a conspiracy theory" reply is practically an endorsement.

@cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork @mystik @thatguyoverthere A common #propaganda technique used at corps is to quite simply state the opposite of what their critics think. A corp I worked at had a framed poster w/slogan “When things get tough, quality always prevails”. It simply stated the opposite of what happened in that company. This video is trying the same technique, & you have suckered for it.

Ok, you talked me into it, against all my laziness I'll watch the video.
Ok so I watched it. I don't fully agree, but calling it a "right wing conspiracy theory" is just a rubbish take.

Material like this is obviously caveat emptor because some of these things cannot be known for sure, but it's only "dangerous" for people who lack any critical thinking.

My notes:

1. The research on Vanguard and BlackRock seems pretty good.

2. What is a bit opaque is the internal structure of Vanguard. We should consider the possibility that it's a "pass-through entity" allowing many different investors to hold shares anonymously. We just don't know.

3. I recall the WEF putting a CFP for how to "reboot the economy" as far back as 2014. This is definitely real. Hypothesis: They're trying to save their liberal internationalist order from collapsing into warring states. They may also be bankrupt.

4. My understanding is in its original meaning, "a new world order" doesn't imply world government, it's more like "a new Bretton Woods", it can also mean "End of Dollar Hegemony". -> It's dangerous to conflate this with Agenda 2030, A2030 is not "The" NWO, it is an example of one possible NWO.

5. "The UN wants to take tax money from all western countries and give it to the mega corporations of the elite, who will be contracted to rebuild society" --> That sounds very plausible if they're bankrupt.

7. Event201 is strong circumstantial evidence that there was foreknowledge of the COVID pandemic. Most likely meaning it's a weapon, and was either deployed by the E201 people or by someone else with the E201 people having intel that it was likely to occur.

8. The idea that there can be a world with NO poverty, pollution or wars is a bit hand-wavy. Even if the current oligarchy is overthrown, humans gonna human, Darwin is always right in the end.

9. He missed the really obvious possibility --> Russia says "nice reset but I want a bigger piece of the pie than what we negotiated" and starts a war. China says "nice reset but I'm not gonna sanction Russia", India says "look, I work for India, no hard feelings"... And the whole Great Reset just flops.

@cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork @thatguyoverthere @mystik @cjd Of course it’s a conspiracy theory. He’s making a claims that wealthy elites are conspiring against the rest of the world. If you don’t see that you’ve missed the core thesis. And of course it’s right-wing as he blends in conspiracy theories from Alex Jones. The only kind of conspiracy theories you get from AJ the lunatic are right wing nut job theories.

@mystik @thatguyoverthere @LibreSolutionsNetwork @cjd He started off well, but to latch on to Alex Jones nonsense weakened the whole narrative. He’s betting his viewers have little awareness of Alex Jones, and it was a foolish bet because any shred of credibility tanks b/c of that.

Ok so I had to rewatch the video because it's been a while since I saw it. I was disappointed that not one of Alex Jone's "conspiracy theories" like gay frogs or false flags were mentioned even once. I assume you are talking about the Gates Foundation, Soros, Event 201, and the royal blood lines. These are actually all well documented and not really theories at all. You can claim you don't think Event 201 was a mock for a planned pandemic, but you can't deny that it happened.

Do you have any specific claims that were made in this video that you can refute? I am always open to more information, but the old "muh conspiracy theory" route is tired. There are people who make plans that affect us which they don't entirely share with the public. The governments of the world do collude with big businesses. The Great Reset isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a damn book written by Klaus Schwab (he has recently written the sequel, The Great Narrative). I own my own copy. Do you?

You are right that the internals of Vanguard are not known. I didn't notice him making many claims in that regard. I am not saying no assumptions were made throughout the video, but it seems like all of the "facts" he has put forward are able to be confirmed. Someone wanting to discredit them could in theory do the work to disprove them, but assuming no one else has done any homework to confirm what is an isn't true is lazy in my opinion.

@thatguyoverthere @mystik @cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork The “deep state” conspiracy was invented by Alex Jones¹. You ask for a refuted claim but a conspiracy theory doesn’t necessarily present misinfo unless it’s really poorly presented (like that of AJ). It’s the giant leaps of faith that are problematic. 1. This documentary may or may not mention it: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/un

@koherecoWatchdog @thatguyoverthere @mystik @cjd @LibreSolutionsNetwork this is nonsensical, if Alex Jones told you that X is true, does that make it impossible for it to be true?

does Alex Jones have the ability to alter reality by his statements?

I'm sure you've seen the Eisenhower speech regarding the military industrial complex, these are not conspiracy theories, you've just been convinced by the conspirators that everything is fine

it's strange to me that for someone who clearly has strong critical thinking skills has allowed such a strange blind spot to grow in their thinking, I can't see any way in which a deep state would fail to form in a long enough timeline with human nature being what it is

@skells @LibreSolutionsNetwork @cjd @mystik @thatguyoverthere #AlexJones peddles a perverse blend of fact & fiction which is very rich in fiction. Is it worthwhile to pick through his garbage and see if you can find a true fact? I’ll let someone else do that work and present the evidence.

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@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @cjd @mystik @thatguyoverthere that's not what I'm saying, your argument seems to be that Alex Jones saying something is sufficient to disprove it

if I've misunderstood your argument please correct me

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