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A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail (www.cnn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -37 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Holy shit, fuck Nigeria. Can we freedom them next? Sounds like they actually need it, but there's probably no oil to be had.

[+] [email protected] -33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (18 children)

Maybe don’t claim their product is killing people because it’s a little too sweet for your taste…?

Okoli responded: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.”

Yeah that’s not gonna go over well anywhere, even the USA. Especially being a business owner….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

McDonalds kills people every day with unhealthy foods. No joke, no hyperbole pure murder. Kills them due to thier greed. I live in the US. Do you think I should be scared 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Do you think I should be scared 😆

Yes but only because you live in America.

Source: same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Except this is hyperbole. People can live 80 years off eating McDonald's and others die by eating healthy organic foods in their 50s. McDonald's is a byproduct of the culture. It doesn't kill people so much as their lifestyle kills them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha wow! That's your comment about this? Incredible!!!

Sure, if someone writes something on the internet that some business owner somewhere doesn't like, lets just torture them. Makes total sense!

In case you are actually this dumb: Her comment was a so called hyperbole. People like using these, often for humor reasons, especially on the internet and sometimes they are used to clarify something that's actually subtle. Nobody reading that comment actually thinks that she seriously means people would get killed by that stuff. And if they would, she should still be allowed to express what she thinks on the internet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

A person in a position of power is held to different standards, and the article the post was about had nothing to do either torture, of course that’s a terrible thing, but I was sticking to the facts of the article…

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