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MechaLenin [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago

Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38 Million for Funding Colombian Death Squads

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Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38 Million for Funding Colombian Death Squads

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MechaLenin [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago
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American banana company Chiquita has been linked to civilian massacres in Colombia and ordered to pay $38 million in a historic judgment.
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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Good. But they should be taken for everything they have.

    What does it take for a company to be dismantled for crimes in the US?

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Doing crimes that rock the boat instead of being business as usual

    • HelltakerHomosexual [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      active invasion and occupation by socialist forces

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Apparently a whole fuck of a lot.

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I wish the 8 was a B.

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      $38 🅱️illion

      • DickFuckarelli [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        sicko-wistful

    • Jenniferrr [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 billion million

    • machinya [it/its, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      and non-us billions please

  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    If my only consequence for organizing death squads was was to pay 0.5% of my annual income, I have a few people I’d be bumping off too.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    38 million? data-laughing

    good to know that we never got rid of blood price, but only for companies

  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    So, basically nothing.

    • Voidance [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      That’s the point of fines, they only punish little people. Corporations and the rich just absorb them like there nothing.

      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Yep. For capitalists fines are just the cost of doing business. If that cost is low enough, they will break the associated laws.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    Yearly revenue… 31 billion dollars. 38 million is nothing for destabilising a country for decades.

    They make 154k per employee, apparently… Not surprising when you consider they’re paying their plantation workers 400 dollars a month.

  • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Any problem that can be resolved by money isn’t a problem for these companies.

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    Spare change

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