Ukraine’s National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the “international sponsors of war” list on Sept. 1.
@Cloudless & I maintain a zine tracking all Sponsors of Russia’s invasion at https://kbin.social/m/SponsorsOfRussianInvasion . We use multiple sources viz. Ukraine govt sites, Yale’s tracker, and credible news sources.
We also have a zine tracking business who have rejected to support Russia’s invasion and have exited Russia at https://kbin.social/m/BizAgainstRussianInvasion
Thank you kindly. Just subbed to both 😁🍻
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Doesn’t stop Ukraine from buying drones built by Xiaomi and sold/distributed by Alibaba.
I don’t see why it would. It’s not like they’re in a position to not buy from wherever they can.
Hardly makes Alibaba and Xiaomi sponsors of war 🤷♀️
It doesn’t affect it one way or the other. What does is their continuing operations in Russia, who started and is continuing the war.
So…? How does that affect the sale of consumer electronics?
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Because China (and Mexico, India, Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East) have not really introduced sanctions (except against military equipment)? These companies are following their government’s policy, which is more than can be said for companies like PepsiCo and Mars (both American).
International trade is dictated by countries, not by companies. If a company is breaking the policy of the country it operates from, that’s obviously very bad. These companies aren’t trying to pick sides: their government hasn’t picked a side and so there is no reason for the company to.
If you buy a drone for lets say 1000$ from Xiaomi via AliBaba, 100$ of those go to AliBaba maybe 1$ goes to Russia. from the 900$ left for Xiaomi, 600 are gone for the production. 300 left, 3 go to Russia. 4$ for Russia. But if this drone helps invalidate only one russian soldier, that 4$ are easily worth 100000$. If it helps invalidate a tank, it goes to the millions. Thats easily worth it if there is no alternative
I have also seen people say “I buy from Amazon, because I don’t want to support Alibaba”… like dude where do you think “VURUU” brand you just bought from sources all their shit from?
Where the fuck is the money going to Russia from?
Not surprised that a company named after the god of war is an international war sponsor
Took me about 7 seconds of thinking before I realized you meant Mars. Couldn’t remember a God named Pepsi for the life of me.
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Actually, Mars was named after its founder, Franklin Clarence Mars.
Franklin Clarence Mars (/ˈmɑːrz/; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars’ son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M’s and the Mars bar. He is also widely believed to be the god of war.
Well deserved. Let’s boycott those fuckers.
But I love Mars. It’s so delicious.
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And so, nothing changed with this meaningless decision, and the world moved on.
“international war sponsor” what a nice title, I think every company operating in US should have it!
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FYI: the “the” before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type “like Ukraine just accused you of.”
What about The Hague
That’s the proper name of it. The Ukraine isn’t the proper name of Ukraine.
And The United States
What about:
- the England
- the Germany
- the France
- the Sweden
- the Russia
- the Poland
Normal country names don’t begin with “the”
“The United States of America” makes grammatical sense. “The Ukraine” or any of the above doesn’t .
Except when you’re from the Netherlands.
That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.
The Holland.
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In Dutch it’s just called Nederland. “The” is added when referring to it in English since it makes more grammatical sense in English. The Low-Lying Lands.
Ukraine is its full proper name, from the original name of Україна, which can be romanized to Ukraine.
The Philippines
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I was being facetious
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The idiot.
It’s actually a really interesting but of english.
We include ‘the’ when the type of government or state is mentioned which is why it is just China but it’s the people’s Republic of china or in the case of a region, like the Cotswolds.
Ukraine was referred to as the Ukraine during the soviet Union as it was a region of a greater country. Therefore using the Ukraine basically diminishes Ukraine to a territory of another country which is sorta what they’re fighting not to be.
Yeah, no. They can earn millions with Russia, so they do. Spend half on that in good PR, and you still earned millions in blood money.
And if people get pissed? The news cycle means they’ll forget about this in about 3 days so you’re good
Pepsi has a history in Russia. They once traded the USSR soda in exchange for a fleet of naval ships. IIRC at the time Pepsi had the 4th largest navy in the world. They sold the ships to Norway.
Over the first year of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian division of PepsiCo increased its net profit by 333% compared to 2021, reaching $525 million, and paid over $115 million to the state budget, according to the report.
That is a little suspicious.
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You’re gonna give people PTSD.
(Psst, it’s “Raid: Shadow Legends”.)
No, I’m not Raid. I’m my own original game, Rage. People really need to get their facts straight…
This explains why LinkedIn was sending out surveys today asking “What do you think about PepsiCo?”, “What are the top reasons you would want to work at PepsiCo?”, to a bunch of people. The whole thing was extremely weird, and obviously a PR campaign
Wow the tankies are out in force on the comments on this one.
Wth are tankies?
A tankie is someone who is pro-communist dictators, put shortly.
You’ll find them on hexbear and other instances that your instance has hopefully defederated from.
Is being toxic a requirement for joining hexbear? It sure seems like it.
Hexbear’s been isolated for a while, and their site developed a culture of trashing on people who “debate” in bad faith, as well as some other stuff like PPB which is weird especially for outsiders.
If you’re browsing internal Hexbear posts, you’ll find lots of posts under irony which make them perhaps difficult to appreciate. I’d recommend visiting Lemmygrad first.
They are easily riled and while I doubt there is intentional coordination in place, due to their fervour, they can come across like a brigade. If you speak up against them - cue the hexbears flocking to this comment no doubt - they can get quite vicious, as my comment history will witness.
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A pro-authoritarian communist. Typically used derisively.
Increasingly, “tankies” seem to cover any infraction against the approved anti-russian fervor;
- if you are not convinced Russia blew up Nord Stream
- if you are not convinced that Russia blew up a farmer and a tractor in Poland
- if you are not convinced that Ukraines summer offensive is going all that well
- if you believe normal Russian people are not evil monsters
- if you are not convinced that Putin ordered the downing of Prigozhins plane
so given 90% of the planet believe normal Russian people aren’t evil monsters, the default position is tankies?
One might say they’re grinding the term into uselessness.
I have been called one just for being critical of the US military, it’s a catch all term for anyone that isnt strictly for capitalist imperialism. I consider it a soft resurgence of the red scare, I cringe each time I see it just like when I see the term lib.
Both the pro Russian and the pro america-no-matter-the-cost crowds just stink of stupidity imo
Equivalent of “woke”, but used by liberals. Generally meaning “people left of us that we don’t like”.
Not really. It’s someone who claims to be liberal or progressive or a way left thinker willing to use force to make the world what they want
People who diminish or refute Tiananmen Square 1989 are tankies
It’s someone who claims to be liberal
😂 😂 😂
Oh come on, we all know you mean communists. Why don’t you just say commies?
It’s original definition doesn’t include liberals. I consider myself relatively left. I’ve had people ridicule some of my viewpoints for being too liberal (I guess too center for them). Those people were tankies, but they weren’t tankies because they’re more left than me. It’s because they consider themselves to be very left leaning while still praising authoritative regimes and being apologists for them. That’s the tank part. They’re alright with military dictatorships of the past and even consider them to have been successful. They also rarely are able to admit the flaws of those regimes (including the genocides), and even if they do, there’s a “reason” for it (X might have been bad and did this, but at the same time, it also did Y which was somewhat good)
This is the problem with “tankie”, nobody can actually define it.
You, attempting to refute that it’s “woke” but for liberals, proved that it is “woke” for liberals.
attempting to refute that it’s “woke” but for liberals
The best refutation is that woke is “woke” for liberals, but Americans fail to recognize both of their parties are liberals.
About time. Add coke, facebook,google and microsoft too
Pepsi advertising the fighter jet is making more sense now.
Next up: the nord vpn logo engraved on every bullet
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full list here: https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/boycott/
Can’t believe nestle isn’t on the list and #1
Man disappointing seeing how many companies I recognize on that list. Boycotting all these companies would be difficult considering how a lot of the companies on here own 20+ brands.
There’s a reason they say that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. This isn’t to say we should just throw our hands up and give in, but do whatever the hell you can.
For instance—sorry if you already know to do this—it may not apply for a lot of these companies, in that the goods are consumed, but whenever you can, buy secondhand to reduce not just waste, but also profits for whoever produces the product you buy. Also, sorry if it sounds trite, but I like to think that every little step helps in some way.
Any one turn the “m” upside down in “mars”
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is sierra mist ok?
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I like how both of these soda names could double as stripper names.
Isn’t that starry now
