Meanwhile, in America, a drug manufacturer sold tainted eye-drops that killed and seriously maimed people, and not one exec has faced consequences. There's barely been any media scrutiny, just boilerplate articles that refuse to name names or even attempt to explain what the fuck went wrong. As for the FDA, I've given up on them. They're fucking useless.
I'm against the death penalty, but at the same time I can't stand lib orgs like Amnesty who screech about how DYsTOPiAn the death penalty is in China when we have the exact same system here in the States except worse because it targets poor and non-white people exclusively.
You should repost this but instead of eyedrops compare it to the recent incident in 2021 when Abbott, the largest manufacturer of baby formula in the US, sold tainted formula that caused hundreds of infants to become ill and resulted in at least 9 confirmed infant deaths.
The US media didn't say shit about the deaths and failed to mention that the FDA only discovered the issue from the findings of a CDC investigation of a string of infant deaths across the US. At least 9 infants died but none of the company leadership faced any criminal charges. Instead the CEO of Abbott received a 20 million dollar bonus that year.
"We now know that contrary to initial reports, nine babies who were fed Abbott powdered infant formula manufactured in their Sturgis, Michigan facility have died," said Congresswoman DeLauro. This is heartbreaking and shameful. Many of these deaths could have likely been prevented if Abbott Nutrition and the FDA did not drag their feet to investigate credible allegations of substandard food safety practices at the plant. And what is deeply disturbing is the timeline in which these events unfolded.
"In February 2021, an entire year before the voluntary recall, Abbott and the FDA were alerted to allegations concerning problems at the Sturgis, Michigan manufacturing facility through a complaint filed by an employee. The problems included failing equipment in need of repair and formula released without adequate evidence that it was safe for consumption. Abbott confirmed receipt and submitted a formal response to the complaint two months later.
"Despite knowing this information, it was not until September 2021 that the FDA conducted a routine inspection of the facility and learned of the potential link between a specific rare and deadly foodborne pathogen and powdered infant formula manufactured by Abbott. At the same time, an infant in Minnesota given formula manufactured in Abbott's Sturgis, Michigan facility was diagnosed with Cronobacter sakazakii. This was the first case reported
http://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-statement-additional-infant-deaths-and-hospitalizations-1
they were likely from a wealthy family. the ideas they could express freely were reactionary
A lot of the Chinese international students at my college were like that. Might be a biased sample size, though. People who move to different countries are more likely to be partial to said countries.
idk the chinese group at my college was based. its a lot of people coming over for a lot of reasons tbh. also international students got a much cheaper rate and i was bewildered by that. feel like more kids in america need to be pressured to go abroad for education, seems way cheaper
international students got a much cheaper rate
Huh, really? I went to a public university and the international students paid the full out-of-state rate, which is like three or four times the in-state rate--gave the school a large incentive to attract international students.
guess it was a our school only thing then i guess. we had a fuckton of international students as a result, i hung out in the chinese and muslim groups a lot. mostly because they were nice to the trans group lmao
meanwhile me in :estonia-burning: coming from south africa and my burning desire to have at least hiiumaa island turned into one giant gulag only growing larger
I think this is more of a "grass is always greener on the other side" thing
tobacco companies in China remove nitrosamines from their tobacco, while amerikan companies dont. this makes Chinese cigarettes considerably less carcinogenic than amerikan cigs
not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source on this? I wanna save it for libs
this study shows the average nitrosamine concentration in Chinese cigarettes is 70 ng/cigarette, with the lowest at 10. this study shows that only 2 of the tested amerikan cigarettes contain less nitrosamines than the Chinese average, at 55 and 66 ng/cigarette. and there are 10 that exceed 300, with a high of 460! the most dangerous Chinese cigarette was at 261
Nooooo, you can't just execute the people responsible for multiple infant deaths as if they were poor people
They should get house arrest, maybe a couple months of white collar prison. Then they can't lobby for laws to be changed to make their actions technically legal.
Woah Woah, prison time? That’s way too draconian, a fine equal to 2% of their monthly profits should suffice.
A fine?! What is this? Soviet North Korean Gestapo? These people are job creators and those money you want to confiscate is their private property. No, the responsible and adult thing to do is to look forward and allow them to grow and learn from their mistakes, without wasting our time in petty grudges.
Look, I’ve got some opinions about the death penalty…. But if you are involved in some libertarian shit that results in the deaths of 6 children, we’re gonna have to take you out. 
Thing is with crimes of capital it's very easy to measure who did the fucked up shit. And if you made a mistake, odds are you merced a guy down with starving kids in Africa or something
So in conclusion, death penalty for capitalists and fascists, no one else.
I think thats something we all can agree on
I already said Capitalists and fascists
but seriously though yes them too.
Pretty soon it'll be illegal to sue corporations. I give it five years, maybe less given how reactionary the Supreme Court is.
Pretty soon corporations will be suing random commenters on the internet for defamation whenever they say anything negative about them
Except they already do that now. Companies have abused the legal system to go after negative Yelp and Glassdoor reviews.
Think of how much more efficient this is! Instead of all the time and money wasted
bribinglobbying politicians, corporations can just vote in Holden Bloodfeast directly now!How much is it to found a company in Delaware and how many do I have to found to get 50%+1 of the vote?
Didn't some oil company have a lawyer sent to jail for the crime of winning a case against them?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/chevron-lawyer-steven-donziger-ecuador-house-arrest
I mean, the problem is their access to power. If these dudes were working class they'd have never killed 6 children. Their bodies aren't irredeemable, only their relationship to capital. We don't need to destroy the body, only the relationship.
If you take everything from a capitalist short of their life, you have created a fascist radical. People are not just their mechanical body and current social standing but also a psychology built upon past experiences
China is not in a position to be threatened by a couple of former capitalists, especially if they're willing to put as much money into monitoring and rehabilitating them as they would have been incarcerating and eventually executing them. This is not civil war era russia we're talking about
but the existing capitalists deserve nothing more than death
And this fundamental disagreement in values is why I'm an anarchist and not an ML
How is this controversial? We'd put them on trial first!
Should we also just not shoot the fascists? Not gulag the reactionaries? Revolutions are not clean things, not in the slightest.
Because when anarchists say we're abolitionists we mean it
China is not in a revolution. They've very deliberately called truce with the capitalists.
Again the CCP shows its authoritarian streak by using violence against an oppressed minority (libertarian capitalists).
remember the ones they shot the pet goat for no reason
sometimes wonder if my eye sensitivity is from my parents using eye drops on me as a kid tbh 🤔
Call me an idealist but, the death sentence is murder regardless of what colour is on the murderer's flag.
On the one hand I agree with you in principle and I want there to be a path of reform and redemption even for the worst of the worst — but on the other hand I'm never going to feel sorry for Nazi war criminals or child murdering profiteers who ends up with a bullet in their heads.
I will take your offer and call you idealist. In a utopia, no one is killed, but while we work to build socialism, the deaths of capitalists culpable for crimes like this are the last deaths to cry over. The purpose of the socialist state is to suppress the bourgeoisie, and it is the evidence of this in how people of different classes are treated that socialists are interested in, not the "color of the flag" like a puerile Bakuninite might suggest.
idealist!