A group of friends vow to do whatever it takes to stop evil corporate overlords from destroying the Earth. How? They aren’t sure. They explore various strategies, but so far nothing has worked. As they build a resistance movement, those who love them the most can be their biggest obstacles.
© Stephanie McMillan - All Rights Reserved.
Mike du Jour by Mike Lester
Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler
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Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
Not murderously bloodthirsty or psychotically evil enough for the revolution? Maybe he could be a drug mule for a while? Or hug trees? Or run with the mob to fight capitalism?
Stephanie McMillan
said, 4 months ago
Capitalists are driven by a blind imperative to pursue the most accessible and immediate and highest possible profits, no matter how irrationally they’re obtained, and regardless of their personal desires. They can’t care whether or not what’s produced is useful or good. For destroying the environment to maximize profits, executives get promoted. For changing their policies out of concern for the environment, and making less profit, they’d be replaced.
timrinaldo said, 4 months ago
And… They make all the stuff we love…
Harrison_Bergeron said, 4 months ago
And again, we can see that capitalism’s most vicious critics understand exactly nothing about it. Ignorance and vicious bigotry are the foundations of Ms McMillan’s ideology.
icky mudd said, 4 months ago
@Harrison_Bergeron
Ah ha, another one that does NOT get ‘it’.
A_Dream4u said, 4 months ago
And that’s exactly why I’m not some soulless, sociopath in a Brooks Brothers suit!
Norman Baron
said, 4 months ago
I don’t know Stephanie, I think you are thinking more of the ‘50s or 60’s when the big corps could and did do pretty much what they wanted. Like Al Capp’s cartoon character, General Bullmoose (a frothing at the mouth capitalist) whose favorite saying was, “What’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA.” However, more and more these days companies get social brownie points by being “green” – recycling, using solar power, using sustainable resources, putting the temp employees in dumpsters so they don’t clog the plumbing if they try to flush them, stuff like that. That being said it is almost a necessary business practice to have a couple of big guys on the payroll who can “visit” a recalcitrant buyer/seller and arrange for an unfortunate shaving accident if they don’t see the light, but they have to dispose of the results in an environmentally friendly manner. Maybe if Frank would hit the gym he would still have a shot at the job.
Radish
said, 4 months ago
Four per cent of CEO’s test out as psychopaths.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Yes a revolution, the one that the Plutocrats are waging against us. They definitely like psychopaths and promote their mentality all the time. Rather cold blooded too.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Norman Baron
By the “50’s” you mean the 1850’s don’t you?
Norman Baron
said, 4 months ago
@ Night Gaunt49 Yeah, the 1850’s maybe, you know, when I was just a kid. But the 1960’s were pretty bad also. In the late 60’s there were boat trips to Mount Vernon. At the dock of our 1st presidents home the water was a putrid green color and there were signs telling you not to let the water come in contact with your skin and “harmful or fatal if swallowed.” Now the Potomac has been cleaned up enough that you can fish in it and even eat the fish. Unless of course a politician has fallen in, then they have to cordon it off for 48 hours.
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
So what capitalist was behind the occupy movement?
banjoaah said, 4 months ago
Radish, you are correct. It is a scientific fact that at least 4% of company CEO’s are full-fledged psychopath. Studies have also shown that corporations prefer to hire persons with psychopathic personality traits. Psychopathic management types are viewed as being more competitive. The facts about CEO’s and psychopaths just reinforces my long held belief that capitalism is the economic system designed by, and for, the benefit of psychopaths.
jd wigman said, 4 months ago
I love Capitalism………………greatest form of government ever invented
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Wasn’t talking about occupy. However they wanted the rich to be put under control and made to pay for their criminal and stupid acts that we all have to pay for.