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This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. The sociopaths running these projects have always cared solely about personal profit and power. The compa
by mratzloff 8y ago
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. The sociopaths running these projects have always cared solely about personal profit and power.
The company that became ExxonMobil supplied fuel for the Luftwaffe, while Davis Oil and Texaco fueled U-boats.
Chase Bank funneled money for the Nazis.
ITT improved German telecommunications infrastructure (working closely with the Gestapo) and built bombs.
Ford supplied tanks to the Nazis.
Hollywood changed content and even dropped films for the global market in collaboration with Nazi censors.
The Associated Press hired actual Nazis and hid the worst elements of Nazi Germany from the world so they could continue to operate there.
IBM's German subsidiary helped with the Holocaust, operating with the approval of the New York office during wartime.
Plenty of other US companies collaborated as well, often with the tacit approval of the government, which was given by sympathizers in positions of power and extracted by extortion, since the US needed their help to win the war.
US companies often had the same approach with the Soviet Union.
The thing is—it works. These companies get away with it again and again, and then the people in charge, and later their children, use their ill-gotten fortunes and influence to entrench themselves even more. It's literally Ned Beatty's speech from the end of Network.
http://www.ivanachubbuck.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Network-Monologue-Ned-Beatty.pdf http://www.ivanachubbuck.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Netw...
- ativzzz 8y agoIs this actually the best self-serving way for America to play these games? Sell your services and technology to your 'competitors' (authoritarian governments), who will eventually collapse because they are so reliant on America to maintain its authoritarianism. In the end, America (or at least the people running these companies) come out richer, and 'democracy' prevails.
- oAlbe 8y agoOf course, I mean, those millions of people were going to die anyway, might as well make a buck out of it, right?
- xster 8y agoWasn't all early NASA space programs the V-2 rocket people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
- SupremeMeat 8y agoThe National Socialists were the good guys. It was the Bolsheviks and their allies (US, Britain) who were the true axis of evil! First to firebomb civilians in Germany, first to use atomic weapons on civilians, actually ran death camps during (Bolshevisks) and after the war (Bolshevisks, Eisenhower's POW camps). Even Patton realized the US' error near the end (some believe he was killed for it). Also isn't it interestingly suspect international jewish media was crowing about six million being in danger over a decade before Adolf entered politics?