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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2859765

So far, I've only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov't officials end up in the Hague...

How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall?

Edit: Bonus points if you include a death toll...

From what I've read on wikipedia's Nestle

In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by "mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources", with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47]

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[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

East India Company and slave trade

Coca Cola and death squads

Chiquita and South America

All Fortune 500 companies and all developing nations

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

East India Company

doesn't exist anymore. those royal patent brands that sell luxury bs are just bored millionaires buying a brandname

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

IBM's adding machines were used to organize the holocaust.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They also provided support, it wasn’t just their machines.

Edit: support in integrating files from the Netherlands into the German file system or something. I forgot the exact details.

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

IIRC the Swiss branch of IBM was providing parts and labor to Germany in wartime too

[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

Union Carbide Bhopal disaster 3,787–16,000 deaths

They were bought by Dow in 2001. Dow also manufactured agent orange, napalm, asbestos and DBCP.

[-] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

I only learned about this one recently from a Vijay Prashad interview, he said a Union Carbide executive was trying to downplay it at the time by saying 'Indian deaths are not as tragic because they believe in reincarnation'

[-] daisy@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

The Hudson's Bay Company. Nowadays they're mostly known as an overpriced generic department store, but historically they were deeply involved in the exploitation of aboriginal people for the commercial gain of wealthy Europeans in what is now known as Canada.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Dole fruit, the overthrow and annexation of the nation of Hawaii

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

IBM sold nazi Germany computers that were used in the Holocaust

[-] Sarcasmenul@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Not only that but when the US air force bombed factories they owned in germany, they claimed damages and the US governement paid them back lol.

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

God what a power move

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

kkkanada mining companies are pretty bad

considering the correlation between excess deaths and unemployment, anyone who does layoffs or downsizing to pad a stock valuation gets the wall twice.

[-] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Can you name one, for example, with a famous atrocity? I know I've heard 75% of mining companies in Africa are Canadian...

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Siemens had slave labor factories in German concentration camps

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Elon Musk's "we'll coup whoever we want" tweet regarding the short lived Christian fascist coup in Bolivia

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

you might enjoy this wiki article

literally every japanese car company produced shit for the IJA, even Honda(officially incorporated in 1946)'s predecessor was.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

pick basically any german company

[-] ChairmanSpongebob@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

DOW chemical

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nestlé is known for many misdeeds, such as promoting unhealthy products, using slave labor, demanding Ethiopia its pay debts to the company during a famine, extracting large amounts of water for commercial purposes in drought areas, union-busting, promoting deforestation.

Condemning it was mainstream 15 years ago, nowadays I think it wouldn't be too difficult for them to get a yesmen army like Elon Musk has. 😌

[-] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

a yesmen army like Elon Musk has.

What do they need that for? 😨

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

for loyal customers that buy anything they sell, I suppose.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

pretty sure they were just granted rights to steal more water near flint too

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Volkswagen/Porsche: literal nazi project. Slave labor, production of war vehicles etc. Ferdinand Porsche was in the SS.

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Bayer (which at the time was a part of IG Farben), who you probably know for Aspirin, created Zyklon B for the Nazis.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Name an oil company and you'll more likely than not read about one of the enviro-cidal fucky-wuckies that they legally weasel out of and laugh all the way to the bank to repeat the process

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Krupps. Today they make coffee machines, back in the day they used concentration camp slave labor to make Hitler's artillery pieces.

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Probably all of them but nestle is a well known example

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Petronas, the Malaysian oil company, funded war crimes in Sudan.

DuPont: funded climate change denialism, Cancer Alley

Ford: Henry Ford was of course a Nazi, and they produced military equipment for Nazi Germany using slave labor.

De Beers: started by Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia guy) and built on African slave labor.

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