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[-] [email protected] 200 points 1 month ago

Can we finally agree capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything but profits and therefore CANNOT self regulate?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Jon Stewart had an excellent monologue about the myth of corporate morality yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVbZ0WQ3s8

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I love how they gave Jon Stewart his show back and he's been using it to burn every single thing he can, including them.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Capitalism does not return the shopping cart.

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[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago

Name a more iconic pair than bananas and fascist death squads

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

capitalists and pinkertons... oh wait

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Financiers and nutmeg? Wait that’s the same too

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Trump and a rolled-up magazine?

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago

The fine? $38 million.

Chiquita Brands International's profits in 2023? $3.1 billion.

That's a slap on the wrist if anything. Just the cost of doing business I guess.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To put that into context:

if all you had was a $100 USD Note, the equivalent of that “slap on the wrist” fine would be $1.23

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'll do the math when I get home, but that serms high. Gut instinct I thought it would be more like $0.10.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

(38 mill/3.1bil)*100=1.2258 roughly

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Implying they ever stopped.

You can’t think all of those private military contractors get all of their money from Uncle Sam.

Corporations have been using mercenaries for hundreds of years, they’ve just refined their PR departments lately.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

We live in a sad world when this kind of thing keeps happening.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

Again?

At this point it's not a surprise, it's when asked to name paramilitary financers, first name that comes up is chiquita.

PEOPLE DIED

PEOPLE NEED TO BE JAILED OVER THIS

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Damn that's crazy. I've never heard of bananas being associated with violence... anytime in the last 120-140 years...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That's bananas

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's where the term "banana republic" comes from.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Okay I'll come clean; I literally chose the range "120-140 years" by looking up the year that term was coined (1904) 😂

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And then we made it cute by putting it on clothing. What a twist.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

What year is this?!?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Guess they don’t have friends in the CIA or state department like they used to.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Isn't Chiquita the corporate heir to United Fruit?

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Is this an article from 70 years ago?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

For Colombians who suffered at the hand of the guerrilla-paramilitary conflict, it was not 70 years ago.

The paramilitary group mentioned in the article, AUC, disbanded around 2006-2008.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Thank you for pointing that out.

[-] rambling_lunatic 21 points 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

As someone who hates both bananas and corporations financing death squads, I consider this a win.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

You leave the bananas out of this! They're a victim!

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Again?!

Who's going to post that 2 nickels meme?

[-] FilthyHands 16 points 1 month ago

War is a racket.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Eh same old same old... Wait they're getting "punished" this time? Well that's new I guess.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Over bananas boys. Bananas.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).

The jury in the civil case, in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, found that “Chiquita knowingly provided substantial assistance to the AUC to a degree sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm to others.”

Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers, has been ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families of eight victims of the AUC, which was a far-right paramilitary group that was designated a terrorist organization by the US.

In 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to making over 100 payments to the AUC totaling over $1.7 million despite the group being designated a terrorist organization.

An unnamed company executive had told the Justice Department that the payments had been made under the threat of violence, according to the release.

In a social media post, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, reacted to the American jury’s Tuesday decision and asked why the same ruling was not made in his home country.


The original article contains 414 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 56%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Guess Dole got soul

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

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