It hasn't all hit the news yet, but they also laid off almost all the licensed store District and Regional Managers overnight.
There's a few factors that you will probably not hear discussed. The Palestine-related boycotts were way more effective than they will admit to. Also, Starbucks already lost to Luckin Coffee in China, which recently came to the US and is already reviewing way better by New Yorkers.
Also like how anti-Semitic Christians will join hands with Israel in the comradery of Islamaphobia.
Hindus trying to join in too not knowing that white people are too stupid and ignorant to be able to differentiate between Hindus and Muslims; to the average American these are just interchangeable words for "scary brown person".
Some of my Gen Z coworkers have said that they go to bed early and workout early and don't drink because if the revolution comes they want to be ready for it, and I honestly couldn't be more fucking proud of them.
It's not that mysterious, Dem establishment does just fine in primary races, your know, when their own power and financial worth is on the line. They don't want to win against Republicans, because they are better off under Republicans, but not on the hook for all the terrible things that Republicans do.
I don't remember which, but some pundit unironically stated "socialism is when the government does things, communism is when the government does more things".
Even legitimate offers come with caveats. Hayden described one company offering higher salaries if workers declined health benefits: “They were going to give a substantial increase in salary if you turn down any benefits … $12,000 more a year if you did not use their medical, dental, vision,” he said.
I am using this term to repeat, because I have somehow not repeated this enough for it to be understood, that the true opinions of the leadership and their supporters are usually not the same and this is especially true of fascism.
I fully agree with you on this, but you're proving my point. If the leaders hold one set of ideals that are ultimately self-serving, and the population has a completely different set of ideals that are ultimately self-serving, then how is fascism truly and genuinely an ideology? There does not exist one set of consistent beliefs across the board.
Communism is an ideology, there is a consistent set of shared beliefs in class consciousness across the leadership and population.
. . I could also just show you the mass beliefs in a population where fascism has taken hold.
That doesn't mean anything! A fascist population might have mass beliefs that bacon and eggs are breakfast foods, does that mean having bacon and eggs for breakfast makes you a fascist? Correlation does not prove causation.
Of course, some of the leadership inevitably are going to also be "true believers," though I think that your criteria for falsification is not justified, because it ignores the class-collaborationism aspect of their nationalism that is the core thing that I'm talking about.
Nationalism and class-collaborationism are incompatible values, you can have one, not both. At any time you will have to choose one over the other, at at the expense of the other. Again, again, again, this is my point, fascism does not hold a set of consistent principles values, fascism morphs to use whatever value is most self-serving to the individual at that moment.
No, it's the footmen out their dying for the Volk, worker and capitalist alike, who are usually the best example of people who believe in fascist ideology.
I mean, in 1935 Hilter started forced mandatory conscription that included intimidation, incentives, and forced recruitment. If it's an important shared value I don't see why you need to force people into it.
That said, if you want an example of someone in power who also seemed to really believe at least most of this framework, I'd point you to Himmler, who functionally undermined the Nazi war effort for the sake of carrying out the Holocaust. That, surely, is someone who truly believes that the Jews are a mortal enemy of his Volk and not just a useful boogeyman, because he was treating their killing as though it was truly part of the war effort itself and not just a sick theater for the German masses and a vehicle for economic extraction. Himmler was not alone, and I think the SS generally is full of examples of true believers, he's just a more familiar case.
I think Himmler was just a hateful sadistic bastard who got off on it, to the point that he was willing to throw his nation under the bus to satisfy himself.
You're basically trying to make the point with this one that racism is a principled ideology and I wildly disagree. Xenophobia is probably the closest thing to a shared value across fascist leadership and population, but even then racists will suspend their racism when they can benefit from doing so.
I'm here to discuss in good faith, you're starting to pull out some debate bro lines and I'm not here for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I interpret the claim you made about fascism as an ideology, based on your JD Vance quote:
The virtue of self sacrifice in serving your community, your county, and the world is a fascist value
This is an absolutely insane claim. I want to self sacrifice for the world. I am a privileged ass white American, and I want global equality and global communism, which will cost me my own status and material wealth. So according to your definition, am I a fascist for wanting to self sacrifice for the world to bring about communism? Make it make sense, if this is a value of fascism then I'm the fascist and JD Vance isn't (since we both agreed he obviously does not share this value).
Now, in good faith maybe you just presented this very badly, so let's ignore the JD quote, and when you say, "serve your country", you specifically mean the fascist fetishization of police and military. This kind of service I personally wouldn't consider to be a value, and it absolutely isn't self sacrifice (even if fascists like to pretend it is), because it's the sadistic pleasure of oppressing someone weaker. To be fair that is very central to America's identity.
Most of all, if you believe that ethno-national heritage is the most fundamental dividing line between yourself and others (with the people on your side being the ones you should care about), doesn't it make the most sense to side with your ethnicity's/nation's bourgeoisie against the workers (and bourgeoisie) of other nations and ethnicities?
If you believe that ethno-national heritage is the most fundamental dividing line, and you're one of one of the bourgeoisie, then it would make the most sense to side with your nation's workers against the bourgeoisie of other nations. You're describing precisely the LIE that fascist leaders make. "America First". What's the reality of fascism? The bourgeoisie always side with the bourgeoisie. The American fascists are white Christian American nationalists, yet include a South American immigrant, a black woman, a Jewish man. The race war was always made up as a cover for the class war.
Poor white working class schmucks might delude themselves into believing you, because they want so badly for it to be true, it's sheer opportunism.
Show me one of the bourgeoisie who wants to self sacrifice to serve the workers of their country with a shared ethno-national heritage, and you'll finally have shown me a principled ideological fascist.
Lol, JD Vance lying out his mouth. Do you think JD Vance believes in self sacrifice for himself? Do you think JD Vance loves Hispanic Americans? Or immigrants? Or Palestinians?
No, what JD Vance loves is encouraging other people to self sacrifice, to perpetuate genocides at home and abroad, to make himself and his billionaire donors richer and more powerful.
Like how Christo-fascists have nothing to do with Christian values, they appropriate the aesthetics and rhetoric only to the extent that it gets them what they want.
They won't pick up any votes, they'll pick up billionaire donors who use them as controlled opposition, they will continue to lose every election, and they will continue to personally benefit off it.
No, he had a hippie aesthetic and a pro-drugs, pro-sex libertarian attitude, so the woo-to-Q pipeline was inevitable, assault allegations regardless (which were also inevitable).
It hasn't all hit the news yet, but they also laid off almost all the licensed store District and Regional Managers overnight.
There's a few factors that you will probably not hear discussed. The Palestine-related boycotts were way more effective than they will admit to. Also, Starbucks already lost to Luckin Coffee in China, which recently came to the US and is already reviewing way better by New Yorkers.