Interesting. I should look it up for sure. While I’m certainly very much inherently in the camp of primarily approaching philosophy in a more traditional analytic style, I’ve become more appreciative of more artistic and “messy” packaging as of late, and this is certainly doing it for me. I love the absurd oversimplification disguised in rationality and nuance’s clothes. All that education these douchecanoes get only to never apply that same academic rigor to their worldview.
While it’s certainly true that Jim Beam can no longer honestly keep the label of ‘all American’ due to corporate structure, they have kept up much of the American tradition and culture around Kentucky bourbon by generally letting them run autonomously. However, to your point, that’s definitely not guaranteed to continue-especially if profits are gonna start being fucked with. American jobs and culture are under pressure from both trump and outside corporate organizations. It was already insulting enough that a faceless corporation took it upon itself to be a steward of a part of American culture and history, but then the shameless sellout? It’s that irresponsible behavior that makes these corporations so inherently unreliable and untrustworthy no matter how faithful they may act for however long.
What was that about bringing back American manufacturing jobs again? They keep saying the wealth will trickle down, yet I don’t think the wealth was supposed to be in this liquid form we’ve been getting…
Oh good, so in addition to what I mentioned it has direct economic impact overseas as well. Neat. Fun. We’re having so much fun with all the bigly winning and other buzzwords for seven year olds.
Jesus. So not only is trump directly hurting the American economy, he’s destroying actual American culture. I would say this event just makes trump’s literal destruction of the Whitehouse even more of an apt analogy of his relationship with America as a whole, but anything more than 100% is just excessive.
Speaking in a more meta-context, this is exactly it in the political world. In playing politics, you gotta play the political game. There are plenty of things to criticize the dems for, but man do most people in semi-recent history tend to oversimplify things. It’s just not as simple as throwing a filibuster at ‘the other side’ every now and then, you’ve gotta consider political capital, optics, legal maneuvers, precedence, etc. If you run up on the congressional floor and decide to filibuster all on your own with no support, you’re just a jackass wasting everyone’s time, likely harming your own cause in the process. Politics isn’t speeches back and forth with some money thrown around, it’s about building and wisely wielding social power. That includes knowing how to build solidarity with others in other constituencies.
Yeahhhhh, had he gone back alone, that probably would have been an easy murder charge. However, I can’t say I would blame him, nor do I believe I would have the same restraint he showed.