Activision is very generous, and there is nothing cynical about its charitable donations. If you think otherwise, you’re probably some sort of unAmerican monster.
Let’s not consider the company’s unwarranted financial subsidies, tax dodging, and contributions to the very socioeconomic system that makes most charities grimly necessary. Let’s not think about Bobby Kotick’s vast wealth, or how billionaires use philanthropy to maintain their unchecked power.
So long as you don’t think about anything, Activision is very generous, and there is nothing cynical about its charitable donations.
Laundering taxpayer dollars through charities is high-class scum.
Why I love Mondays:
– My day off
– Jim Sterling
I literally can’t even begin to imagine the purpose of (or method of) becoming someone with *ELDRITCH AMOUNTS OF MONEY!*
It’s staggering and horrifying to see these companies and billionaires proudly displaying their cosmic horror levels of cash.
This donation was definitely 100% made out of a genuine act of kindness and definitely not out of fear of rioters…
The boring, uninspired corporate music in the background every time Jim mentions Activision’s “virtues” just made this video even better.
“We’re doing this out of the absolute kindness of our hearts. Not for the tax break at all. Wait, did I mention tax break? No, not for that, don’t get it wrong. Big companies donations, tax break, no, that’s not our style…
.. we will still have it, Simon from accounting, we’re sure of that?”
Weekly reminder that charitable hero Bobby Kotick was in Jeffery Epstein’s Black Book.
Every time you say “he sold his mother’s ashtray” my brain understands “he sold his mother’s ash urn”. Wouldn’t put it past him, really.
also id like to point out most buy backs r done by borrowing money at 0% inerest from fed aka inflation hence transfering money from people to executives
Scam the people of their money and give them a fraction of it as a charity.
That’s some 4D Chess.
Every companies right now:
We care so much about this cause that we waited for it be trendy to do anything about it (or even mention it).
“Company Gave To Charity? Company Good Now!”
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yeah…the whole “company throws money at a charity and magically everything is forgiven” thing doesn’t work on me…never has. these game companies (most of them anyway) have long since nuked all support i once had for them.
you didnt even mention that most of these “charities” are essentially run as businesses too with their own over paid CEOs and tax avoidance schemes and use very little of the money donated to them to helping people and just line their own pockets.
Who here knew Bobby Kotick was mates with Jeffrey Epstein?
Bobby Kotick is a bloated, greedy dragon sitting on a hoard stained with his poisonous breath.
Getting money from the government: trashy when you’re poor, classy when you’re rich.
Charity isn’t charity when it’s a strategy just to make you richer.
I don’t *NEED* to photoshop devil horns on Bobby’s head, but that one photo could make a real difference in one woman’s life.
Being in Bobby’s position means he recognises exactly how much good he could do. Exactly how much change he could manifest.
And he chooses…not to do it.
He specifically opts to be *less helpful* than he could be. He could have given away thirty times the amount he did, still have been insanely rich, and it would have done thirty times the good. *But he chose not to*.