{"id":7015,"date":"2019-11-19T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:17:09","slug":"soulless-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7015","title":{"rendered":"Soulless Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s CEO <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mark Zuckerberg recently came under fire for stating that he won't fact check political ads in the upcoming 2020 election (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/10\/23\/20929350\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-mark-zuckerberg-testimony-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zuckerberg recently came under fire for stating that he won&#8217;t fact check political ads in the upcoming 2020 election<\/a> thus clearing the way for possibly more election interference from foreign agents. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Mueller report clearly stated that dubious foreign entities played a part in the 2016 election (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/24\/politics\/russia-trump-election-interference\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Mueller report clearly stated that dubious foreign entities played a part in the 2016 election<\/a> by disseminating false information on social media sites and even hacking into some election systems in Florida. To her credit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/11\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-facebook-ad\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Elizabeth Warren challenged Zuckerberg by purposely running a fake news ad on Facebook to draw attention to what a serious problem this is for democracy (opens in a new tab)\">Elizabeth Warren challenged Zuckerberg by purposely running a fake news ad on Facebook to draw attention to what a serious problem this is for democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised though. We&#8217;ve commented before about how unregulated capitalism (a.k.a. no laws to check corporations or corporate power) breeds colossal amounts of greed, avarice, selfishness and corruption. We&#8217;ve become a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SEGUMUCA nation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4644\" target=\"_blank\">SEGUMUCA nation<\/a>. More people than ever are trying to get rich quick using whatever possible method, even if it&#8217;s illegal. Just watch some episodes of <em>American Greed<\/em>. It&#8217;s enough to make you sick. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Capitalism is nothing more than indirect cannibalism (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3862\" target=\"_blank\">Capitalism is nothing more than indirect cannibalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Mark Zuckerberg is no different than Donald Trump or any greedy capitalist serving in his administration(Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, etc&#8230;) or unethical Republican in the House or Senate who looks the other way while Trump commits crime after crime.  They worship the almighty buck and will support all others with the same money-grubbing, materialistic mindset. These callous automatons are only interested in our data so they can make more money off of us schmucks in the middle class who do all the work. And right now, these greedy, soulless capitalists are in complete control of this nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zuckerbergsoullessmoneydatacapitalist.jpg\" alt=\"Truth and justice don't matter to today's capitalists like Mark Zuckerberg; they're only interested in your data and your money.\" class=\"wp-image-7009\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zuckerbergsoullessmoneydatacapitalist.jpg 499w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zuckerbergsoullessmoneydatacapitalist-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption>Truth and justice don&#8217;t matter to today&#8217;s capitalists like Mark Zuckerberg; they&#8217;re only interested in your data and your money.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently came under fire for stating that he won&#8217;t fact check political ads in the upcoming 2020 election thus clearing the way for possibly more election interference from foreign agents. The Mueller report clearly stated that dubious foreign entities played a part in the 2016 election by disseminating false information on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soulless Capitalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,963,3],"tags":[2032,1695,1023,74,73,22,20,1899,27,1552,238,1554,1058,147,895,1876,1585,9,851,663,1332,1330,1535,1098,98,596,1273,296,19,694,1504,2031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}