Yes, THAT Coors.
“ Heritage was originally launched in the early 1970s with seed funding from the beer magnate Joseph Coors. He told a historian that his political activism at the time was specifically “stirred” by a 1971 memo authored by the soon-to-be supreme court justice Lewis Powell.”
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@feloneouscat pisse de cheval
More like, as Monty Python said, “It’s like a couple making love in a canoe, ‘Too fucking close to water’”
@feloneouscat *slaves
They will never accept or embrace the independence of workers, just as they have never accepted democracy, and just as they have never accepted the concept that any amount of wealth could ever be enough to sate their hateful hunger for that which is not rightfully theirs.
No matter how much they take from us, they will never be satisfied so long as we have something - anything - left... whether that be wealth, freedom, [...] even the barest shred of human dignity.
“That memo written for the US Chamber of Commerce implored corporations and oligarchs to be “far more aggressive” in influencing the political system, which he feared was becoming far too responsive to popular demands for the regulation of business.”
This document would tear our current government apart and make us all workers of the rich, whether we want to or not.
I wish I was being sarcastic
#politics
BTW, never drink Coors.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/trump-project-2025-history