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> L’Oréal to Walt Disney and Dow Chemicals... display the hammer and sickle on their premises.

Wow. Quoted just so others don't miss this.

It was news to me.

Globalism is a race to the bottom when it comes to Individual freedom.

The actions of these companies in these Authoritarian nations proves that despite many claiming otherwise

This is darkly funny; of course their loyalty is to money rather than any ideology. They'll be Communists if there's money in it. After all, this enhances shareholder value for the shareholders in the US, and isn't that the one and only thing that matters to a modern company? There's no risk to the bosses and shareholders of being expropriated.

Well, unless Dow's local operations get seized ..

> Well, unless Dow's local operations get seized

I think Lenin once said: The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

yep.

Not actually Lenin, but yes that's a common motif in Leninist thought : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/

Lenin is the one that pioneered the hybrid authoritarian capitalist system that China is using right now too, so the feeling is very appropriate.

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