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America suddenly suying after Monsanto was bought by a European company, Bayer. What a coincidence!
by LunaSea 3y ago
America suddenly suying after Monsanto was bought by a European company, Bayer.
What a coincidence!
- jfghi 3y agoAre you claiming a lawsuit shouldn’t take place?
- zetsurin 3y agoguessing the implication is that america doesn't sue it's own
- projektfu 3y agoSeveral tobacco companies would like if that were true.
- LunaSea 3y agoHow long after the dangers of smoking were known? Aren't these same companies owners of large vaping brands now btw?
- projektfu 3y agoHow far do you want to move the goalposts?
- LunaSea 3y agoThanks for answering the question. So it seems that it takes 80 years for the American government to do something about it. Well past the golden age of profit of the tobacco industry. Now please explain to me again how this is the justice system suddenly genuinely caring about people's health instead of a strategic case to kill European competitors and extort money out of them? Chemical companies like Dow, 3M and DuPont are in the same basket and don't seem to get fined much.
- mullingitover 3y agoThe US gives domestic tech giants a very wide berth on a lot of privacy and platform owner market power issues while Europe, which can't produce a tech giant of its own aside from ASML, is on a huge crusade about privacy and open access to tech platforms. We're only discovering we have principles about this stuff now that foreign-based Tiktok is succeeding here.
- biosboiii 3y agoI dont care, Bayer shall be sued as much as they can, as they were the engineers of the holocaust[1][2][3], but claiming that the US sues Bayer because they really care about corporations fucking up the health of their people, while 9/11 first responders with lung cancer etc. are thrown under the bus, and not because they exercise a trade war with the EU to this day is wrong imo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowitz_concentration_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowitz_concentration_camp [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial
- biosboiii 3y agoAlso totally a coincidence this started during the protectionist Trump adminstration, and a total coindicence that the EU under German leadership started pursuing US tech giants like Facebook, Google with the GDPR and so on at the same time. EDIT: And jailed Volkswagen engineers due to diesel scandal even though their cars are labelled as trucks because they would never ever pass the emission tests that VW and others cheated.
- vkou 3y agoThe EU has been giving SV tech the evil eye for the past 25 years by this point. If you think this started in 2016, you have a short memory.
- darklycan51 3y agoIt is fairly funny, I remember how Monsanto used to run paid comments over every big news subreddit you posted stuff about them, then the moment they got acquired suddenly those stopped and Monsanto is evil. Not saying they aren't but I trust them more now under a German firm than when they were American.
- gruez 3y ago>It is fairly funny, I remember how Monsanto used to run paid comments over every big news subreddit you posted stuff about them Source?
- andrewjl 3y agoHow are those at all related?
- callalex 3y agoGlyphosate lawsuits have been going on for more than a decade now…