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2022-01-22, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cliche actions of big cooperations
What's the most trope confirming action of a big cooperation you know?
I don't come further than the time Amazon made a copy of 1984 inaccessible to users who had already bought it, just like the ministry of truth in the same book.
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2022-01-23, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Cippa's River Meadow
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Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
Last year, when Philip Morris International (a big tobacco company which owns the Marlboro brand among others) bought a pharmaceutical company who primarily develops medicines for COPD and other tobacco related diseases, effectively now owning both cure and disease.
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2022-01-23, 07:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
I should point out that it wasn't just 1984, but a whole bunch of books by George Orwell that a specific seller did not have the rights to sell in the US. This wasn't censorship, and Amazon had done the same thing on many occasions without major complaint. It just made headlines because it included 1984/Orwell.
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"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2022-01-23, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-23, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
I remember being bewildered by the Capital Couture luxury fashion line they released in conjunction with the Hunger Games films. The Capitol is a monstrously decadent society that's either uncaring or willfully blind to the horrible things done to support their comfortable lifestyle... and somebody looked at the costumes the filmmakers came up with to convey self-absorbed decadence and said "you know, we could sell these to people." Is this comically oblivious corporate greed? Biting satire? A little of both? It was part of a viral marketing campaign, blurring the line between fiction and reality is often part of the point for those... but on the other hand, they still actually made and sold the things.
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2022-01-23, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2022-01-23, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
I can only think of puns, like how French assault jets are built by Dassault, or how Bombardier used to build military aircraft and water bombers. Or when Lucky Strike sponsored motorsports, so that cars and riders that lost control had a good chance to strike a Lucky Strike placard.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2022-01-26, 08:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Cliche actions of big cooperations
Footballs teams that wink & give big contracts to wife beaters but manage to wear pink shoes to show their support for women.
"We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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