Circlejerk is my preferred term for this patting-ourselves-on-the-back-for-liberalness attitude.

This. Everytime I see a Uber hate story, usually on Giz because all those fucks know how to do is hate shit, I remember all those Lyft ads I see. Fucking hypocrites.

Whether this can really be considered altruistic depends on how you look at it. Is altruism in the act itself or in the intent? Many would argue the latter.

The very bourgeois assumption of ‘voting with your wallet’ is that there actually is an ethical way to participate in global capitalism

Yes but as the article mentions, investors in Lyft (Peter “I’m gonna live forever” Thiel among them) are among Trump’s advocates and compatriots. Do what you like with this information. I will continue to use Lyft mostly because more drivers have told me they get more out of Lyft at the end of the day (in higher…

In this age of “ÜberCapitalism” (pun very much intended), it’s about time we, consumers, begin “to exploit” the big businesses as much as they’re prone to exploit us, whenever possible.

If I’m going to be even that smallest bit influenced by Gizmedia’s hash tag delete Uber /lyft activism, you can start by not accepting their ad dollars.

Fuck Hillary for not campaigning more in the Midwest.

So what is the metric for “much less bad”? At what frequency and intensity of shall we say, altruistic endeavors, does an individual, small business or corporation have to meet in order to be considered “much less bad”.

Obligatory reminder that HC won the popular vote by approx 3,000,000 humans.

Lyft was also accepting rides at JFK during this time with no surge. Doing exactly the same thing.

Both companies are gross. Lyft was operating in NY just the same as Uber. They got a bunch of good press but nobody seemed to care that Lyft was operating just the same because they gave some money and the narrative is generally anti-Uber among certain circles.

I think it’s more of a reminder that Corporations Actually Fucking Hate You, and no matter how good their intentions seem, they are still insidious piss farms run by soulless monsters at the end of the day, and they almost always act in the best interest of their bottom line before anything else.

But more importantly,…

Uhhhhh

If I didn’t know better, this sounds like an argument that was used for the 2016 Presidential election, one really really bad option vs. a not great/but not awful option (and we all know how that turned out).

Word. Let’s go.

at least it gave us richard spencer getting suckerpunched

And so it begins.