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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:49 PM Aug 2020

Tech Giants Won't Run Anti-Trump Ad Showing Police Brutality In America

Major tech giants like Google, Hulu and Verizon are refusing to run all or part of a new political ad that calls America a “police state” under the Trump administration.

On Monday, Priorities USA Action and Color of Change PAC released a new 30-second digital ad titled “Police State” that features a montage of police officers beating, tear-gassing, tasing and running over people protesting racial inequality.

The words “brute force” and “silencing dissent” appear over the footage, accompanied by audio from a June 1 speech in which President Donald Trump calls himself the “president of law and order” and separate audio from 2017 in which he tells police: “Please don’t be too nice.”



The ad, above, targets “younger Black voters who are ‘Trump-curious’ or undecided about Joe Biden,” and is meant to run this month through Election Day in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to Priorities USA’s website.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/police-state-trump-priorities-usa-ad-200641292.html
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Tech Giants Won't Run Anti-Trump Ad Showing Police Brutality In America (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Then, Newest Reality Aug 2020 #1

Newest Reality

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Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:54 PM
Aug 2020

Then, are the tech giants indicating their support of Fascism? It has been known to be of great benefit to big businesses since it also represents a merger of state and business, as in even more comfy in bed together, snuggle, tickle, hoochy-coo!

Hey, stock market and all. What's wrong with a Fascist country if it means that Neoliberal capitalism will thrive on the fertilizer of poverty and death? I mean, profit is the only point, right?

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