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  • Just to be clear this isn't what the President of Botswana did either.

  • No, don't try to pass the buck. Wealthy nations are the ones responsible for what their own citizens get up to. Corporations are made up of people and should be regulated by their host nations.

    • Low Income Countries usually lack the resources to test imported products properly. This for eg is why all the poison cough syrup deaths globally.
    • They also lack the resources to finance enforcement of their laws.
    • They are also bullied by the World Trade Organization or threatened with lack of trade in necessities if they try to go against large international corporations with lobbying power.
  • One of Nestle's main evil plans in the Low Income Countries is to aggressively tell mothers that formula is better than breastfeeding, have doctors suggest it, or even give free formula until the mothers' breastmilk dries up.

    Humans evolved to crave sugar which is scarce in nature.

    Babies will naturally prefer milk with higher sweetness i.e Nestle Cerelac. This will help convince the mothers to breastfeed less, buy more formula, and/or let their milk dry up.

    Edit: here's UNICEF on these evil marketing practices in Bangladesh.

  • That's really underhanded and manipulative.

  • Cool, I still have my pw but haven't been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.

  • That single bed is giving hospital bed vibes.

  • Banks says the ringing in her ears did not completely disappear, but now it's barely noticeable on most days.

    "It's kind of like if I lived near a waterfall and the waterfall was constantly going," she says. Over time, the waterfall sound fades out of consciousness.

  • Harry Belafonte's exuberent cover of "Day O (Banana Boat Song)" which was a hit in its time and re-popularized by the dinner scene in Beetlejuice.

    The original is Jamaican folk/traditional and the first recording of it Eric Connor - Day O has a totally different tone to it. In the original, labouring on a banana plantation is as tiring and depressing as you'd think.

  • Surprised to see that even Marx and Engels wanted to disenfranchise the prison vote. There's a strong classist element to that.

  • I know content analysis or discourse analysis would find this outlet is very selective with words like "massacre" or active terms liks "kills". That's just its bias.

    But trying to fudge objective reality, like a refugee camp being a refugee camp or an occupation being an occupation, is next level and falls under propaganda.

  • I don't get why so many people on here think "settlers" is a benign word.

    During colonization settlers were responsible for genocidal massacres and land theft in Australia, Canada, US, Brazil, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Including some pretty famous ones like Trail of Tears.

    What we are seeing in Palestine is what Settlers look like during the active colonization phase.

  • The reason why I think it wins is it becomes obvious Satan can have do-overs and he's already falling for one of them. He hasn't actually escaped, and Satan is still having fun at his expense.

  • This is where analogies break down... that same "short guy" locked his next door neighbours in the basement.

    And he's currently trying to distract everyone's attention from mounting evidence that he's a serial killer.

  • In The Company Of Men

    Devil's Advocate

    Interview With The Vampire

    Se7en

    Nightcrawler

    American Psycho

    Arguably No Country For Old Men

    A lot of documentaries e.g: Paradise Lost.

  • Damn it. I've not got round to a complete de-Google yet but this looks like I have to now.

    I can't support a company that assists in a genocide.

  • Unfortunately escalation threats are catnip to Netanyahu at the moment.

  • Well this has got to be one of the least persuasive things I've ever read:

    A measure of the success of the Taean Work System is its longevity and its continued endorsement by the leadership. In his 1991 New Year's address marking the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the system, Kim Il Sung said that the "Taean work system is the best system