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]

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    11 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 [love/loves]
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      11 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 [any]
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    11 months ago

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

    • GinAndJuche
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      11 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 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

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

    • batsforpeace [any, any]
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      11 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
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    11 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 [any, any]
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    11 months ago

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

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    11 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
      hexagon
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      11 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...

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        11 months ago

        i'm hardly an expert but here's some torture and murdering https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/tanzanians-sue-barrick-gold-in-canada-over-alleged-mine-abuses

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    11 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.

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

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

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    11 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. 😌

  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    11 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.