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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That's a somewhat misleading summary

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-walmart-heiress-nyt-protest-ad/

While Walton inherited a 1.9% stake in Walmart following her husband's 2005 death, according to Forbes, a spokesperson for Walmart told Snopes via email that Walton has no involvement in the business.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Tell that to her 20b net worth

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    That's irrelevant to the point that "The walton family sponsored" is misleading when it looks like it was just one person who's only a member of the family by marriage, with no current involvement in the business, and when walmart itself explicitly distanced itself from her on this topic.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I literally didn't say Walmart did I?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You said "Walton family", which is technically correct but misleading because it's only one person. The statement made by walmart is more representative of the family majority.

    Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes split hairs to defend the billionaires

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You could admit you weren't entirely correct. It's okay.

    And you're doing the work of billionaires here by discouraging people from protesting.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I was actually correct, a member of the Walton family is bankrolling a protest named "No kings" literally the oligarchy funding protests.

    Protest away, it's definitely not all part of project 2025 👍

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    "technically correct, the best kind of correct" is a joke and not an aspiration.

    What do you suggest? Staying home and doing nothing?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bro you're the one claiming I was wrong, I didn't make this into a whole back and forth, you did.

    The technically correct joke is when someone comes in and nit picks something, exactly what you're doing.

    I do not see how the protests have actually accomplished anything over the past two decades I've been paying attention.

    The protests against the war in the middle east, we didn't pull out until Biden

    Occupy Wallstreet, literally nothing happened

    Black Lives Matter, literally nothing happened

    First trump admin lots of protests, literally nothing happened

    Defund the police, hey it's like they have more money now somehow

    All the trump 2 protests, what has actually been accomplished?

    I do think protests can work, but these are all too disjointed with no real end goal in sight and I find it mighty suspicious when some of them are funded by billionaires yes.

    The same billionaires who happily keep us fighting amongst ourselves while they loot the treasury and slide us further toward facism.

    What we need is an actual movement united in a common goal and working in lock step, something the proud boys et all figured out on the right years ago and clearly actually worked for them

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What we need is an actual movement united in a common goal and working in lock step

    Well at least we agree on this.

    I often feel like the protests are performative, and never move onto the next steps of "we're withholding our labor until things improve" or what have you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    This is one of the reasons I am so angry with the dnc, the ones who ostensibly should be harnessing the clear energy that exists for good instead just does fuck all and then when the next election comes around holds it over our heads like "we'll seriously do it this time guys for real"

    Protests, to me, show there is energy there to be harnessed, the protest itself isn't going to solve anything.

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