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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:39:39 JST lainy
   i'm baffled that german media is still trying to call everything you learn about the WEF by reading Schwab's books a 'conspiracy theory'. It's like when twitter banned you for citing official WHO covid news.
   
   Havel on this topic:
   
   > "The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power; and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development … Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing."
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     moomin (moomin@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:48:25 JST moomin

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     @lain do you have a link to pdfs of his books?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:48:25 JST lainy

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     @moomin http://libgen.is/search.php?req=vaclav+havel&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
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     junicks@fedibird.com's status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:49:20 JST junicks

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     @lain leidgeplagter bürger der brd?

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:49:20 JST lainy

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     @junicks zum glück nur noch auf dem pass und nicht per wohnsitz.
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     hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 02:50:17 JST Hyolobrika

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     @lain I guess I should read one of those books at some point. Because at the moment, I don't really see what the big deal is with the WEF. They just seem like a think tank that tries to predict the future, and people are misinterpreting their predictions as plans. Maybe I did read something indicting about them and forgot about it though.

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     junicks@fedibird.com's status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:16:46 JST junicks

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     @lain kanns dir nicht verdenken.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:16:46 JST lainy

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     @junicks
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:17:50 JST lainy

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     @Hyolobrika yeah, how much clearer can you get?
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     hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:17:51 JST Hyolobrika

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     @lain Come to think of it, Schwab did talk about "penetrating the cabinets". So maybe it is a plan.

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     Yang Wen-Li (yangwenli@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:22:28 JST Yang Wen-Li

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     @lain @junicks ich werd niemals nicht darueber lachen
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     junicks@fedibird.com's status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:24:02 JST junicks

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     @lain eure politiker sind echt schon jenseits von jedem meme, welches einem nach 5 bier in launiger runde einfallen könnte.

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     Buffalo Duck Guitar (resident_evil@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:26:49 JST Buffalo Duck Guitar

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     @lain oh, you cited Vaclav Havel?
     Maybe you will also like Milovan Djilas and Michael Voslenski.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:33:46 JST lainy

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     @junicks aus der ferne kann man ganz gut drüber lachen, manchmal
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     Granwalder (granwalder@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:17:51 JST Granwalder

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     @lain es ist was es ist
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:20:47 JST lainy

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     • Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:
     @coolboymew @Leyonhjelm This is already possible, not all companies are limited liability companies. You can chose to preferably deal companies that aren't LLCs.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:20:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:
     @Leyonhjelm @lain I completely agree, but the question is "how", and how to avoid the fake virtue signaling and I don't trust an utopianist to have the solution
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     Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon: (leyonhjelm@social.lovingexpressions.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:20:49 JST Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:

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     I think shareholders should be personally liable for the companies they own including the debt of the company.
     
     If it's gonna be a gambling instrument let's have real stakes.
     
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:20:50 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lain I'm somewhat curious about the actual end goal of the "Stakeholder Capitalism" which is more or less what I've been actually whining about, corps are all about the shareholders getting their cash quick and fuck everyone else, fuck the company burning down, fuck the employees and fuck the customers
     
     Stakeholder capitalism, according to sources I've read quick quick on the subject was practiced like about 100 years ago, but no more
     
     However it sounds like nothing more than outright utopianism here. From the stuff I've heard and read Schwab sounds like a scary utopianist with really fucked up views and I don't trust that the top 500 global companies are just somehow going to start acting reasonable
     
     Hilariously, ESG, which is also supported by the WEF, would be an apparent example of this in action and it's already a complete abject fucking failure. It's all fake and gay, it's once again fucked up bourgeois social justice du jour, and it's all corpos sending fake ass virtue signaling like Microsoft Update saying it's "green", ADN, a French anime streaming company claiming it is a "green company" (fucking how???), Disney giving pamphlet to employees asking them to be less "white", and producing utter garbage that won't sell now and won't sell in the long run to beg for dat sweet phat blackrock investment money, basically bringing everything to 0 and it being all about the shareholders again, but even worse
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 04:26:21 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Leyonhjelm :ek2_ribbon:
     Lmao what? You expect every shareholder, most of which have no say in how a business operates, to sit there and micromanage everything that goes on for every single business they have a stake in?
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     ashley (rabcyr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 08:13:52 JST ashley

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     @lain i remember davos being considered by leftists as a big evil, and then they invited greta to speak and she yelled at them all, and now if you complain about wef you’re a right wing nut

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     ashley (rabcyr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 08:14:34 JST ashley

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     @lain tbf, i have seen right wing nuts yell about something just because it’s an idea promoted by wef. like having walkable cities.

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     Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 04:03:11 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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     @lain
     “Dieses Buch war nicht für Sie bestimmt” —Klaus Schwab
     @SirVo

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