joelx

Joined 17 years ago

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Founder and CEO of www.CoalitionTechnologies.com, a web development & SEO firm based in Los Angeles, CA. Writes a personal blog at blog.joelx.com.
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Comment · 7 years ago
We should boycott the NBA and find ways to help bring freedom to China.
Comment · 7 years ago
We should all completely boycott Blizzard and never purchase games from it again. Same thing with the NBA. In the long run, we need to fight back in China itself against the dictatorship.
Comment · 7 years ago
Boycott Blizzard and tell all your friends to do the same.
Comment · 7 years ago
Boycott Apple for sucking up to China. Google products are at least a year ahead now anyways and Google actually left China altogether at one point.
Comment · 7 years ago
Any US company that sells technology to China supporting these sorts of big brother population control should be held criminally liable for its end use.
Comment · 7 years ago
We should all boycott Blizzard and not buy their games regardless of how good they are. We should try and convince everyone we possibly can to join us. Freedom and preventing unjust state beatings and murder is more important than having some fun.
Comment · 7 years ago
I agree, China is now a nightmare dictatorship. We should do everything we possibly can to support the free peoples remaining in Hong Kong and Taiwan and perhaps start pushing freedom into China.
Comment · 7 years ago
Berkshire is one of the best run organizations in America.

Most private equity that uses leverage actually destroys businesses. Just look at what happened to toys r us for example. That's extremely common.

The problem is that when private equity buys a company, it usually uses lots of loans to do so. Then the most experienced people in the business are removed or deincentivized (the previous owners). Finally, this now poorly run and heavily in debt company struggles to survive and goes bankrupt in the next recession.

You will see this pattern repeated over and over with private equity.

Comment · 7 years ago
The other thing to understand though is that in a dictatorship people do not have economic freedom or the incentives to truly do the hard work necessary to build this industries. If the United States cuts off support for China and these industries, China will fall far behind unless it can steal the technologies. This is the fate of most dictatorships.
Comment · 7 years ago
US companies need to leave China and other totalitarian states. Our doing business with them just prolongs the suffering of their citizens. Or maybe we should help overthrow evil governments.
Comment · 7 years ago
We should boycott the NBA.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think we all need to boycott Blizzard and the NBA for putting money over freedom and democracy.
Comment · 7 years ago
I wonder what Chinese citizens think when a popular show like South Park just completely disappears?

I usually appreciate South Park and it's very strong morals. I think we all need to boycott the NBA and Blizzard for putting money over freedom.

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