Ukraine designates PepsiCo, Mars as 'international war sponsors'
Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-designates-pepsico-mars-as-international-war-sponsors/Open linkView original on kbin.social889
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Went looking for this list. Partial results:
The NACP's register of international sponsors of war includes Philip Morris International, Alibaba Group Holding, Bacardi, Unilever, Mondelez International, Xiaomi Corporation, P&G, METRO, Auchan, and other brands.
@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 😁🍻
:)
Bacardi? It would be off-brand for them to not back dictatorships.
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?
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?
You mean VRCUUC isn’t a homegrown American brand?
What about Pooplunch?
what about ZHKUBDL?
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.
Pepsi is actually named after Pepe the frog.
Pepsi the dog
Pepsi makes the dogs gay.
Actually it's named after the Pepsicum plant, which gives Pepsi it's garbage taste.
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.
You do have a point... Nestlé is also as evil as they come but a KitKat® is so delicious
I love KitKat too...so yummy.
And so, nothing changed with this meaningless decision, and the world moved on.
FYI: the "the" before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type "like Ukraine just accused you of."
What about The Hague
And The United States
What about:
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 .
That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.
The Holland.
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.
To "Ukraina", not Ukraine, but that's just a minor correction.
The Philippines
I was being facetious
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.
"international war sponsor" what a nice title, I think every company operating in US should have it!
Why
Because most international conflicts that the US enters are due to threats (or potential windfalls) to the profitability of our largest companies.
Or at least that's the joke/context
Can we not be as stupid as redditors when they downvote people for asking questions?
No one is downvoting for asking questions they're downvoting for asking trolling questions that are either obvious or can be answered by a quick Google search.
Only a troll is "unaware" the us has committed war crimes itself often at the direction of corporations.
Eg: the dole company in South and central America etc.
Maybe give them the benefit of the doubt, not everyone is from the USA or obsessed by it here, and good answers can teach people efficiently, I'm pretty sure you learned things this way yourself.
No, everyone has access to Google. This is a cop out that allows trolls to appear to be legitimate question askers. They are not. Do not entertain the notion.
Yes the guy providing common sense answers is totally a troll. You got me. The most pragmatic troll ever.
Asking the question promotes discussion.
Which is exactly what Lemmy needs to show to newcomers it’s not a barren wasteland of nothing.
Asking a dumb question promotes ridicule...always has. Lemmy is no different.
This war brought to you by Rage: Shadow Legends.
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
Just another reason to not drink the diabetes piss water that is Pepsi. They lost the cola wars for a reason. Come sucks too, but fuck Pepsi even harder.
You drink a lot of come?
Oh yes, come is my favorite. I come everywhere I go.
There's actually a gas station chain called Kum and Go.
I almost keeled over laughing the first time I saw that.
Edit: Wish there was one called Wham Bam Tank You Ma'am
I have another one for you. I've seen Kum & Gos, but these were a rare treat indeed
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Every time I see that name I have to pause and acknowledge that holy crap somebody actually did that.
It’s like a much more mundane version of “holy crap that guy was really the president of the US, and for a while and everything!
Hmm
If you say so, buddy.
Vení, vidi, veni
The coconut is very subtle.
Royal Crown is superior anyway, and I'll fight anyone that says it ain't.
You're entitled to your opinion, even if it is indefensibly incorrect.
Photo or it didn't happen.
Have you had rc anytime recently? It tastes like store brand soda
... they didn't change the recipe, did they?
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.
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.
A pro-authoritarian communist. Typically used derisively.
Increasingly, "tankies" seem to cover any infraction against the approved anti-russian fervor;
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
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.
One might say you yourself are obfuscating the meaning behind pro-russian rhetoric.
Thanks for helping prove my point.
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
Oh come on, we all know you mean communists. Why don't you just say commies?
Because tankies are next-level communists. So while all tankies are also commies, not all commies are tankies.
For me the biggest distinction is that I think commies are just naive and want to live in a fairy tale, tankies are actually malicious and want to fuck it up for all of us if we let them.
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.
The best refutation is that woke is "woke" for liberals, but Americans fail to recognize both of their parties are liberals.
😂 😂 😂
We need to physically remove tankies from the fediverse.
You are using Lemmy that was created by actual tankies.
Thanks to open source and federation we can fork and kick them out (and also tell them to kill themselves enough that they either leave or actually do.)
They didn't invent ActivityPub and don't have any role in its development.
About time. Add coke, facebook,google and microsoft too
Pepsi advertising the fighter jet is making more sense now.
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.
Yeah Proctor & Gamble is the toughest one for me. They kinda have a lock on some industries like laundry detergents.
I guess we just do our best. Russia is a small market, so it doesn't take to much of hit to these bastards in the bigger markets before they abandon Russia.
In Europe Unilever or Mondelez is probably the hardest for me.
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.
Next up: the nord vpn logo engraved on every bullet
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Any one turn the "m" upside down in "mars"
Mars better eat a snickers.
isn't Snickers made by mars?
I'll definitely be checking what I buy from these companies and making adjustments to my habits.
Slava Ukraine.
You're a rube
I bet they donated when the checkout kiosk prompted them for a dollar to Slava hahaha
I guess you don't see the irony in your statement, huh?
is sierra mist ok?
I like how both of these soda names could double as stripper names.
Isn't that starry now
As the jingle goes...Pa pa pa pa pa.... Coca-Cola..
Hi dad
Better be careful, I hear Pepsi had the biggest warfleet in the world at one point.
Psh. They don't even have a harrier.
Oh, no, they prob. do, they just won’t give it to you even when you rightfully won it
Neither do I, despite how much I've asked 😢
This drone grenade brought to you by The Real Thing, Baby!™
I think that was Coca-Cola, Pepsi was The Choice of a New Generation.
Commercialism! Ta-dah!
Oh yeah you're right.
"Worthless Nazis and White Supremacists get mad at people of color making money"
wew
Why do I see lemmygrad cockroaches if lemmy.world defederated from that hellhole?
Your instance hasn't defederated from Lemmygrad yet, and we won't defederate your instance so you have to deal with expanding your perspectives.
Dealing with lemmygrad users is "expanding perspectives" as much as massive diarrhea is just "a weight loss program" - technically it's true but it's still shit.
And coincidentally, most of what Lemmygrad users write is a diarrhea.
Let's leave Ukraine deals alone with their shit. they are on my nerve. silly spoiled kid
You are irrelevant tho