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I'm done with Levi's. You did the right thing. Thank you for your courage.

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Diversity and inclusivity, except in the case of thought. Can't have that. And I too, had no idea what your job was during the open schools debates - I only knew you were a former gymnast.

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Until this hullabaloo happened, the only thing I knew about you was that you had been a competitive gymnast. Levi's treatment of you does NOT make me inclined to continue buying their products. On the bright side, I finally found a brand that I was buying that I can stop buying to make a (small) statement. Most of the boycotts I'd seen in the past were for products I didn't buy anyway, so thanks for that chance.

Many of the advocates for closing public schools (like your governor) didn't send their own kids to public schools anyway.

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We want you to bring your whole self to work so we can mold your whole self according to our culture and values. We want to own all of you, not just a portion of you.

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At corporations you must consoom goodthink and obey the DIE commissars. The merging of state and corporate power is the definition of fascism: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-fire-a-commissar

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This is something that too few people realize. In contrast to brands of socialism where the the state directly controls the means of production, in fascism businesses remain privately owned but must bow to the wishes of the authoritarian state in supporting the state's chosen ideology.

The fact that fascist states of the past have used nationalism as their guiding ideology does not mean that nationalism is an essential component of fascism; ANY centralizing ideology will serve the same purpose. The Woke ideology is just as useful (if not more so) for forcing everyone to parrot the same ideas or be branded an enemy of the state.

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What we are in is a variation of fascism that operates upside down vs Italian fascism. In Italian fascism the government encouraged the formation of corporativist syndicates of special interest groups or identity groups but they all served the state. In corporativist American fascism the special interest groups and identity groups control the state. The globalist system is a series of interlocking corporate governing boards and NGO governing boards forming consensus.

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