Submitted 5 weeks ago by FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
I know some people are boycotting US businesses during the current administration, but the same mindset has ripple effects here in the EU. In other words: stay vigilant!
It’s a sort of anti Brussels effect, I suppose: When fascism has infected the US, it starts spreading everywhere else, too.
My response to this is always…Putin really needs to die
After which someone worse will take his place and continue the same shit
What Russia needs is a fucking revolution full 1917 style where they murder the shit out of all oligarchs and setup a functional democracy
Ah yes all the dastardly Russians fault.
Come on dude, the US does not need any help being a fascist hellhole. Their fascism is homegrown
This isn't going anywhere. Climate change will make sure of that.
In the context of power and money, absolutely. Although the fascism is being generated beyond the US too: fossil fuel companies are considered to be the main proponents of disinformation to destroy social cohesion against minorities, for example.
While I’m 100% in favor of diversity and inclusion, I think there was a bit of a fever over it in corporate land over the last several years. I also don’t think it actually amounted to a whole lot. I’m not one of those people who got sick of hearing about it, or complained about it, but I’m also not sorry to see most of it go. It doesn’t mean discrimination is back on the menu. It’s hard to describe how much performative crap was happening. Just doing cartwheels to show how inclusive we are. We literally had sensitivity training that told us to stop using the phrase “long time no see,” because some might construe it as a mocking imitation of a Native American stereotype speech. I mean seriously, you can’t tell me it’s either THAT or FASCISM with nothing between.
Everyone needs to remember regardless where they are based out of a multinational corporation is just that multinational. So they will do what they have to do to curry favor with a powerful government for corporate kick backs.
Plus regardless of how wrong it is the the people of the United States told the world what they want when the majority elected these clowns not only by the electrical college but also the popular vote. So companies are going to respond to what they perceive is what their markets want.
I hate it as much as the next human with even a little empathy but it’s how the world works right now. Just like with countries, companies don’t have morals they have interests. So there is no good or bad companies only whats in their interest at the moment.
The electrical college is truly a shocking way to run a country in the 21st century.
Good place to study electrical engineering though.
So there is no good or bad companies only whats in their interest at the moment.
That’s absolutely not true. Just because a company doesn’t “have morals” doesn’t mean a company isn’t immoral. No different than a psychopath not having morals, but us as society being able to judge them for that. You, as a consumer, have a choice on companies you interact with (somewhat, of course). Companies generally seek profit, so yes, capitalism is at fault it the core. But there are companies like:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw
vs
en.wikipedia.org/…/Stanley_(drinkware_company)
Which one is more ethical?
These companies could have broken ties:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Business_collaboration_with_Na…
That being said there’s currently a pretty strong rise globally in support for nationalism / fascism / racism / anti-science / religious domination of government and media / genocide. So even companies that seem more local can immediately change their culture to adopt to a shift in power, belief, etc.
Just because interests align with the wellbeing of the public doesnt make a company moral. You back a few years ago and Tesla started by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning to push Electric cars and battery tech and thus would get us off fossil fuels. We all for the most part think of that as a good thing and look at them now.
The problem is companies by design eventually get big enough that the people in them don’t truly care of the mission of the company. Most people do what they need to do to keep their job and when you have enough people doing that in the micro where they dont see it as immoral, but it adds up at the maco to some really immoral stuff.
It could be currying favor with Trump. However I also think about of companies were only doing this inclusion stuff in the first place behavior it was fashionable or assumed to be a good thing. With that removed, they’re just dropping the pretense.
Another company that doesn’t need to, cow-towing to the cowardly cunt in the White House. Or is it the kitsch Gold House now?
Omg 😂😂😂 ive been calling it the gold leaf house recently
This sucks, my daughter just got into Lego. I guess it’s just another evil company I’ll be boycotting.
If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand
Good news: their patent expired, and offbrand lego now fits on Lego, at a third of the price.
Do those companies have DEI policies, or are we just indirectly dinging Lego for having had one in the first place?
The official bricks have a better feel than any of the off-brand versions I’ve encountered, though. Every other brand is usually too tight, or sometimes too loose. Lego spent a lot of time perfecting the clasping power, and it shows.
Care to share some of these offbrand 1/3 the price lego brands?
Bad news, their patent expired and they in turn, trademarked the bricks. They sue everyone under trademark now, instead of patent infringement.
I bought a bunch of minifigs off Amazon sold as “cake toppers” to escape notice.
This isn’t a great look, but calling Lego “evil” is a bit of a stretch. This was one report that has no bearing on how they run their company or how they interact with their customers.
They still support and promote diversity in their products, which is where it matters.
No, it’s not. Lego has been bullying local distributors of other brick systems (e. g. CADA) by issuing patent claims, knowing very very well that those claims are false and the patents have expired long ago.
However, customs has to hold and store the shipping containers until the court settles, and they charge for it. A lot. This forces small shops (down to your local mom&pop toy store) to pay for customs storage fees, for weeks, sometimes months. These costs are high enough to force small shops out of business, mind you.
Along with the declining quality of the sets and the increasing cost, Lego is very well a shitty company.
You might have a point. It’s only one document that they decided not to mention DEI related words in dispite using it 7 times in the same document the previous year.
However, I’ve been on the fence about even buying Lego for my daughter. The fact is that they sell a product entirely made from plastic, it doesn’t matter that they use paper bags now to contain their plastic. This is the modern day equivalent of buying your children toys made with asbestos or lead. These products make our children and planet less healthy in ways we aren’t fully sure yet.
Maybe they aren’t evil. But they also seem to be far from innocent.
I think I’ll still stick to buying second hand if at all.
I’d agree “evil” might be hyperbolic, but it’s not like Legos are made out of bamboo or aluminum, either.
There are also great alternatives for LEGO compatible toy sets. Some of them are even higher quality than LEGO.
Some of them are even higher quality than LEGO.
Like such as?
Which ones? Mega Bloks make really nice designs, but the Lego bricks feel better to build with.
If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand
That’s where most of the sets my kids had came from.
It’s a durable product that is easy to clean. Buying used is very low risk.
Imo the title falsely implies that Lego not being a US company means they are completely independent and unaffected by US actions.
Lego presumably does substantial business in the US and thus is beholden to US jurisdiction and the whims of Trump to some degree. Them dropping diversity and inclusion from their reports just shows their priorities. However on that note Lego still being family owned lets us pin this decision more squarely on some particular individuals, rather than the usual vague mass of shareholders.
You’re right. I actually thought my title implied that connection, but I can see how it works the opposite way too. I’m not sure how to phrase it without editorialising too much / posting opinion as fact. I’m open to suggestions.
Most companies with specific dei reporting in my country started because of political pressure via us investors to begin with.
HR is a scam - if you’ve an issue go to your union rep instead, that’s why we have them. If you live in a country w/o them, get some.
Profits before ethics.
Shame, I expected better of them.
LEGO: No guns
STAR WARS: These are blasters
LEGO: OK. Give us the money.
Lego’s had guns and other weapons since waaaay before they started making Star Wars sets.
Oriental Expedition had guns. Pistols and rifles.
The Pirate theme had guns.
Exo-Force was literally riddled with guns.
Indians Jones…
The “No Guns!” rule is more like a loose suggestion.
I think they’ve reached the point of being a huge corporation where they no longer have any morals beyond whatever makes them money. They sell pride sets when acceptance is profitable, and now they’re cool with giving JK Rowling money to hurt trans people if it means they’ll see a few bucks from it.
The oligarchy transcends borders
That’s what they are doing. I am amazed that no one from outside has yet pointed finger and warned yet of Heritage Foundation’s attempt to influence Europe. They want to see the world burn, literally.
Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organisation and should be treated as such.
money is fungible
If they suddenly care what Americans think they should just go ahead and rename the system “legos”.
😂
Not buying from companies that bow to MAGA. Also, I’m still waiting for bricks made with recycled plastic.
I am not trying to invalidate your comment, but saying that is like trying to boycott goods and services from China.
As far as I know, China doesn’t bow to MAGA racism.
Corporations are not our friend. They love money above all. And they constently need to make more money. And. And more. How much money is enough? More.
As “woke” has died in the U.S., the spiritual guide of the western world (🤮), companies are fast to follow their lead.
Honestly it is quite bizarre that despite everything people still believe capitalism can save us, when it is evident that it can only kill us and while it is at it will take most life on earth with it.
Time to wake the fuck up and kill capitalism.
Capitalism was a failed experiment that should have ended in the 1920s but it served certain people well to keep it going, so they popped it up, rather than letting it die. So now we have this stupid hybrid system where it’s capitalism, but only until capitalism fails. Then suddenly it’s socialism time, but only for businesses, until they feel like they can cope again.
Exactly. It’s not capitalism, it’s crony capitalism that sucks. Big business and government in cooperation is bad for us all. Truly free markets will still produce dickhead corporations, but competition allows good businesses to compete and give consumers better options.
It’s megacorporations that rule law and decide, we are since years back in a hyper capitalist suicid extinction event. Those who do the bidding of any megacorp today are cells of a demonic post human entity and wish upon humanity death. Surely somehow we can wake people back, land on Earth again, travel and eat without carbon dioxide so that the taiga can avoid being set ablaze in a few years and our doom sealed to forever. We have to stop avoiding the speciecide class war culture that decides fantastic and impossible idioms that you must follow, like eat milk and meat to grow or that you must give up your values to a hypnosis machine or several, or maybe if only you give the firm more than the required wake hours so that you can buy a fucking insane metal monstrosity to travel inside that weighs several tonnes, because it is safer apparently to accelerate a several ton air conditioning human payload missile to hundreds of kilometers per hour and then measure how many second that took as the variable that should stimulated your geniala slightly more, than to travel together with strangers coated in god knows what pathogens? We cannot help but form a mass psychosis ever since media trained zealots are allowed to serve children corporate propaganda on a regular basis. No lobbyists that serve nature, or humanity are allowed in the death chambers high command. Only the most vile homicide designers on the planet are psycopathic and dominant enough to work actively on the slaughter of our entire species yet nobody rise from the sofa to stop them as if that was the plan all along; to just lobotomize the cattle so the machine gets it easier with the grinding of swaths of human collectives, cultures being unmade and live on as bonemeal for the ultimate end of their offspring, no say in life or death equal.
I agree. I think our biggest fuck up is thinking we own the place and do whatever without any consequences. Disgusting.
And I think a big part of the problem is the psychology of group behaviour compared to individual behaviour. We can be far less moral in groups, by compartmentalising morality onto “someone else” in the group. I’m not sure that any other system can help us address that aspect of group psychology.
Humans being social animals surely does play a big factor into controlling us, thats for sure.
While this is true of public companies privately held companies have more flexibility.
If the Kristiansens wanted to they could direct the firm to be more inclusive. In this case it’s not “the company” making the choice, it’s the Kristiansen family and you can point directly to their need for money.
Really Denmark?
Welp, fuck Lego too I guess. I hope at least some of their fans vote with their wallet and choose new hobbies a little less supportive of fascism.
As if I could afford any to begin with.
Fuck Lego. What does the k’nex annual report say?
Well, their products were overpriced anyways, also still selling wizard legos…
Accenture is an Irish consultancy firm that did the same.
What’s the US have to do with it?
China doesn’t have DIE, despite Blackrock heavily investing in China.
Fucking cowards.
Lego is an anti-family company.
As if I would care what’s included and not in an annual report. Stop acting as this is the only thing which is wrong in any given company. How about you just boycott everything, starting with the manufacturer of the device you are currently using. Hypocrites.
Give it a couple more years and they’ll be making Noah’s Ark and Golgotha play sets. Oligarchs have no shame about virtue signaling to whoever holds the brass ring.
lego is a really shitty company even if it weren’t for this. support different brands that are even way better and way cheaper
They didn’t change. They just don’t pretend any more.
Even though I have reservations about US-style DEI initiatives (I’d much prefer France’s way of not recording ethnicity, race, religion etc), I do find Trump admin’s policies to be beyond absurd and stupid of just nuking everything.
The good news though is that fascists typically shoot themselves on the foot and end up destroying themselves because their decisions are based on emotions. There is quite literally neither rhyme nor reason. If one reads into Nazi and fascist policies and institutions, they don’t make any sense whatsoever. Nazi Germany was actually on the brink of self-made bankruptcy by excessive overspending, until Hitler declared war to delay the inevitable by plundering the resources of Europe. Eventually, American fascism will just end up eating itself.
I always thought that the solution to sexism and racism in the workplace isn’t necessarily forcing sexism and racism in the other direction, but rather by eliminating it entirely by demolishing all workplaces
Definitely a much more evil company than all the others still doing it purely out of fear of being bullied into bankruptcy otherwise.
From my European point of view, this whole thing looks like keeping shoes on indoors - mostly only done by Americans, and even there, most people think it’s stupid.
Enough of skin tone mini figures, make everyone yellow again.
Buy Cobi, they’re a company from Poland producing their bricks in Poland. And they have tanks.
No shit. There’s a New World Mafia.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s 2 things in this world that I hate. Intolerance for other people and the Danes.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why does Thorfinn speak in broken English while Sasappis doesn’t? Neither encountered it in their lifetimes, and both have been exposed to it for hundreds of years now.
Elshender@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
God I love Austin Powers.
youtu.be/zcUs5X9glCc
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Took me a minute to
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
As a Dane who’s also a big fan of Thorfinn, I am vexed. VEXED, I tell you!
(Also, amused that the viking and the hippie are dating, given my username 😁)
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Don’t talk with your mouth full!
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
😂
Tja@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The Dutch. The Danes have enough having to speak Danish, no need to pile on them!
Deebster@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
But we’re talking about Lego, which is from Denmark. Correcting the quote is at expanse of the joke/relevance.