This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants.

This should concern you.

Today’s bingo:

1. Powerful, often exclusionary, populist nationalism centered on cult of a redemptive, “infallible” leader who never admits mistakes.

2. Political power derived from questioning reality, endorsing myth and rage, and promoting lies.

3. Fixation with perceived national decline, humiliation, or victimhood.

4. Oppose any initiatives or institutions that are racially, ethnically, or religiously harmonious.

5. Disdain for human rights while seeking purity and cleansing for those they define as part of the nation.

6. Identification of “enemies”/scapegoats as a unifying cause. Imprison and/or murder opposition and minority group leaders.

7. Supremacy of the military and embrace of paramilitarism in an uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites. Government arms people and justifies and glorifies violence as “redemptive”.

8. Rampant sexism.

9. Control of mass media and undermining “truth”.

10. Obsession with national security, crime and punishment, and fostering a sense of the nation under attack.

11. Religion and government are intertwined.

12. Corporate power is protected and labor power is suppressed.

13. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts not aligned with the narrative.

14. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Loyalty to the leader is paramount and often more important than competence.

15. Fraudulent elections and creation of a one-party state.

16. Often seeking to expand territory through armed conflict.

How is that not “just following orders”? All orders from up the chain come with an implied “or else my might comes down on you”.

Most people do the right thing when it’s easy and profitable. Having ethics means doing the right thing even when it’s difficult.

It does concern me, and it should have concerned them enough to fall on their sword for their principals. They have FU money, if they're not willing to, who is?

Two sides of the same filthy coin, in a way.

>This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants.

You are saying it like it is something new or extraordinary. Wickard_v._Filburn gave the USG the power to bitch slap anyone unless it falls under some of the other amendments. And not as if they were not substantially weakened.