Pop Culture

Yes! I didn't even think about that. How many public figures had the right take on October 8th, 2023?

jeff bezos is the only real communist in north amerikkka, he is a third world maoist - creating shitty conditions for the workers so that we rise up

I saw people calling for a national general strike in a few youtube comments is that actually a thing or is it actually just Minnesota and the internet is declaring a general strike without organising like usual?

For anyone who doesn't know, that's $5 each monthly at minimum. Twitch used to just flatly take half, I think big streamers get a better rate now or something but let's just make it simple and assume Twitch is taking exactly half of it. That would mean Hasan makes $130,000 a month at the absolutely most conservative estimate. And that's without factoring in how many of those subscriptions are higher tier (up to like $25 monthly) and the fact that he probably gets a higher percentage of it.

For talking to a webcam.

Agreed

Based.... checks notes Nabisco? No that can't be right....

Edit: Further searching turned up that Nabisco is also a subsidiary of Kraft foods lmao wtf?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International

This whole wiki page is like a glimpse at the lovecraftian monstrosity that is the realm of corporate subsidiaries and mergers.

December 10, 1923 National Dairy Products Corporation (National Dairy) founded by Edward E. Rieck and Thomas H. McInnerney. The firm was initially set up to execute on a rollup strategy in the fragmented United States ice cream industry.

1924, Kraft Cheese Company was founded and was listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange.[12] Two years later, it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

1928, Kraft acquired Phenix Cheese Company, the maker of a cream cheese branded as Philadelphia Cream Cheese, founded by Jason F. Whitney Sr. and the company changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company.

1930, National Dairy acquired Kraft Phenix. After the acquisition, the combined company retained the National Dairy name and management, though the Kraft Phenix side of the company continued to operate largely independently.

The company then changed its name to Kraftco Corporation in 1969, and was renamed again to Kraft Inc. in 1976.

After its acquisition by Phillip Morris and the merger with General Foods Corporation in 1989, Kraft Inc. was renamed to Kraft Foods Inc. in 1995.

On September 7, 2009, Kraft made a hostile £10.2 billion takeover bid for the British confectionery group Cadbury, makers of Dairy Milk and Bournville chocolate. On November 9, the company's bid (then £9.8 billion) was rejected by Cadbury, which called it a "derisory" offer. Kraft upped its offer on December 4. It had significant political and public opposition in the United Kingdom and abroad, leading to a call for the government to implement economic protectionism in large-company takeovers.

August 2011, Kraft Foods announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies, an international snack-food company and a North American grocery company.

Mondelez International, would be the legal successor of the old Kraft Foods, while the grocery company would be a new company, Kraft Foods Group. The split was completed in October 2012. It was structured so that Kraft Foods changed its name to Mondelez International and spun off Kraft Foods Group as a new publicly traded company. Kraft Foods Group later merged with Heinz to become Kraft Heinz.

https://kotaku.com/hasan-hasanabi-piker-wheat-thins-cracker-twitch-ban-pas-1849807890

I'm buying Wheat Thins now lol.

That's actually a super funny thing that a brand™ has done. Very rare for it to be funny and not a groan fest.

I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though. But i long despair at encouraging people to dodge monopolists out of spite, yes, i can’t avoid gmail at work, but i can avoid youtube at home. Every time someone says “i searched netflix or here is my spotify roundup or here is a link to instagram” i get slightly mad.

p2p streaming in baby form exists, and people with financial opportunity can force it into reality, you know

If you haven’t noticed, we are entering in american imperial order any dollar that can be rescued from usa clutches is valuable (and political streamers are roughly useless)

Tech as in software layer is the most superficial shit there is, once you get the code built, it exists, and for some indescribable reason popular leftists are all tech averse to the max and behave like normies and pay for shit costing cents

*if we are in the deepest pit of reaction and going down ever more rapidly, while our politics are unpopular or not popular enough for people to sacrifice even a modicum of comfort, the goal of a leftist is not to live alone in the woods (although viable), but to fuck profit rates everywhere we can, which, in current world, includes tech monopolies, where one person can plausibly fuck up the whole music, if they somehow get popular, but “our” popular or interesting persons are nowhere interesting enough to see that as a direction to pursue. I would gladly only link peertube video, and avoid nitter if couple more people were on mastodon, but alas

He gets well over a million dollars a year. He absolutely could do things differently. He's been doing it long enough and successfully enough he could probably just do it completely non profit for the rest of his life and live comfortably off his savings. He elects not to for the same reason he misrepresents Lenin to encourage people to vote for the democrats - because he is a wealthy liberal and his class interests are ultimately aligned with them.

He won’t obviously, cause of treatlerism and being tech averse, but he could start it