As someone who hates both bananas and corporations financing death squads, I consider this a win.
You leave the bananas out of this! They’re a victim!
They’re disgusting radioactive fruit that everyone insists on putting in smoothies.
They’re delicious fruit packed with potassium that help make smoothies creamier.
I do not dispute any of that but the ‘delicious’ part.
Then I respect your opinion, no matter how wrong it may be.
Again?!
Who’s going to post that 2 nickels meme?
War is a racket.
Can we finally agree capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything but profits and therefore CANNOT self regulate?
Removed by mod
Force all companies to be worker-owned cooperatives, Richard Wolff-style.
Also the stock market doesn’t really need to exist. It’s just gambling with extra steps, and the people who win at that game end up having control over way more than one person should ever have. Also goes along with the above, which is complete worker ownership over companies.
We’re ready for suggestions!
It’s money. Every other form of economy has also exploited people for gain.
Money existed before capitalism. Capitalism started in the 1700s. Money far predates capitalism. Plus, my comment is that capitalism must be regulated by outside regulators like governments. Conservatives have pushed deregulation forever and it’s made things worse. Capitalism worked far better in the heavy regulation days after WW2.
Money existed before capitalism. Capitalism started in the 1700s. Money far predates capitalism.
Yes, thank you explaining what I said. Mucho appreciato
So we’re just supposed to stop coming up with better ideas?
If that’s what you want to do, go for it. I didn’t say anything like that.
I’m just pointing out it’s not capitalism.
It’s the definition of capitalism
Jon Stewart had an excellent monologue about the myth of corporate morality yesterday.
Wait, he’s back on the Daily Show?
Yes, but only Mondays. He’s been hitting it out of the park though.
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I love how they gave Jon Stewart his show back and he’s been using it to burn every single thing he can, including them.
In this case, I can believe that Chiquita didn’t set out to finance the AUC, but was unfortunate in that their banana plantations fell into AUC-controlled territory, and therefore were extorted for protection money.
It’s like if I owned an Italian restaurant, the mafia comes in and extorts me for protection money, then the feds come and arrest me for financing the mafia. What was I supposed to do?
Not pay the thugs?
Enjoy your burned out restaurant…
It’s a false analogy. Chiquita were paying the paramilitary to do its bidding.
Chiquita / United Fruit have long been involved in oppressing and destabilizing south America for profit.
No, it’s like if you owned a massive chain of Italian restaurants that notoriously exploited people, and you were actively paying the mafia to intimidate your workers and to bust unions.
The judge saw through Chiquita’s ridiculous fabrication, I’m disappointed to see you parroting it here.
There is enough proof in the trials to show they were not unhappily contributing to paramilitary groups.
Damn that’s crazy. I’ve never heard of bananas being associated with violence… anytime in the last 120-140 years…
It’s where the term “banana republic” comes from.
Okay I’ll come clean; I literally chose the range “120-140 years” by looking up the year that term was coined (1904) 😂
That’s bananas
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
The jury in the civil case, in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, found that “Chiquita knowingly provided substantial assistance to the AUC to a degree sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm to others.”
Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers, has been ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families of eight victims of the AUC, which was a far-right paramilitary group that was designated a terrorist organization by the US.
In 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to making over 100 payments to the AUC totaling over $1.7 million despite the group being designated a terrorist organization.
An unnamed company executive had told the Justice Department that the payments had been made under the threat of violence, according to the release.
In a social media post, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, reacted to the American jury’s Tuesday decision and asked why the same ruling was not made in his home country.
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How many times are we gonna have to teach you this lesson, old man?
Over bananas boys. Bananas.
What year is this?!?
b a n a n a
Is this an article from 70 years ago?
For Colombians who suffered at the hand of the guerrilla-paramilitary conflict, it was not 70 years ago.
The paramilitary group mentioned in the article, AUC, disbanded around 2006-2008.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Eh same old same old… Wait they’re getting “punished” this time? Well that’s new I guess.
I had a guy tell me the US doesn’t meddle in Central or South America anymore. 🤔
Name a more iconic pair than bananas and fascist death squads
capitalists and pinkertons… oh wait
Trump and a rolled-up magazine?
Thats implying that trump is like a dog.
Don’t say that. I LIKE dogs!
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Isn’t Chicita the corporate heir to United Fruit?
