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It’s a huge jump from “Walmart hires off-duty cops for security” to Walmart having “the cartels” murder whistleblowers. And neither of your links have anything
by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
It’s a huge jump from “Walmart hires off-duty cops for security” to Walmart having “the cartels” murder whistleblowers.
And neither of your links have anything to do with major corporations.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoWalmart is way too careful for any of that so they’re not playing in those realms. The point you should take away is that there is no actual distinction between the coercive capabilities of corporations and those of the state or in absence of a state, the ruling landlord/gang/dictator Smedley Butler wrote about this in detail in the 1930s (1) This is well documented in the Banana wars States are, and have always been, the corrcion arm of the largest employer in a sovereign territory https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company