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It behaviour like this which makes people think that the high seas isnt actually such an unreasonable option.
by drumhead 3y ago
It behaviour like this which makes people think that the high seas isnt actually such an unreasonable option.
- immibis 3y ago[flagged]
- throwawaymaths 3y ago> Corporations are doing that to us, but way more subtly, but with no less of an impact in the long run Corporations generally don't send a missile into a pizza shop to kill two 15 year old twins, or send conscripts into battle and shoot at them if they retreat.
- maximus-decimus 3y agoHonestly, Nestle has done worse. Like promoting detrimental baby formula to women in poor countries leading to poisoning and malnutrition of infants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott I'm honestly convinced the only reason a lot of companies don't torpedo teenagers is because they can't.
- blibble 3y agoif the Dutch East India company had missiles it probably would have
- throwawaymaths 3y agoYes, and so does XE/PMC WAGNER. That's why I said "generally". If your example to claim corporations are evil is 400 years old from a mercantilist era, then... Ok, I guess?
- Toutouxc 3y agoNot that I disagree with you entirely, but please, Russia is killing and disfiguring men, women and children with rocket artillery, kidnapping kids, tearing families and human lives to pieces. The impact on Ukraine, now AND in the long run, is an will be enormous and absolutely incomparable to corporations screwing people up with subscriptions.
- Waterluvian 3y agoAnd it’s unbelievably tone deaf and ridiculously offensive to those who actually suffer. A reminder that a total loss of human perspective is woefully easy.
- davisr 3y agoI guess PFAS in the water doesn't count? Another way...what about the corporate military industrial complex, which wages disinformation campaigns (2003 Iraq, anyone?) to _go to war_ to generate them profits via manufacturing weapons? What about all the families that are torn apart from those weapons? The soldiers who lose lives, lose limbs, lose a peaceful mind? It all leads back to corporations that rule America, and now to a larger extent the rest of the world via the globalist trade agreements they lobby for.
- immibis 3y agobut is comparable to the totality of what corporations to do people. Like I said, frog in a pot. Every step is small, but the sum of all the steps is big.