“Let’s recap the corporate tug-of-war in Georgia after Republican lawmakers passed one of the most restrictive voting rights laws in the nation. The measure, part of a wave of GOP-backed bills to limit voting after record turnout in 2020 propelled Joe Biden to the White House and flipped the Senate, would shorten the window for early or absentee voting, move control of local elections to (mostly Republican) state lawmakers, and criminalize the distribution of food or water to people waiting in line to vote.
After losing in November, Georgia Republicans decided to basically make voting more like all of the worst parts of flying. After passage of the measure by Governor Brian Kemp, Democrats were angry, black people were angry, the president was angry. So for help, they turned to the only people whose opinions might actually count for something: giant corporations. Facing pressure from civil rights group to respond to a law which targets minority voters, Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star game from Atlanta, while Georgia-based companies Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines slammed the measure as ‘based on a lie’.
It’s great to see corporations use their influence in support of voting rights, but just to be clear, they didn’t do this out of the goodness of their hearts, all right? They did it because liberals were threatening to boycott them if they didn’t speak out. It’s actually amazing what you can get companies to do when you threaten a boycott. I mean just the threat of a boycott got Coca-Cola to back a voting rights group. Think about that: that means with just a little more pressure, we could probably convince Coke to put cocaine back in their drinks.” —Trevor Noah
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
