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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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?
The sponsors of war list is a list of companies circumventing everyone else’s efforts to place a defacto embargo on Russia to show that their actions have consequences. When companies cross that picket line, they undermine the entire exercise, making it easier for Russia to continue operations. The idea, for the rest of us, is to in turn boycott the companies on the list so they’ll also experience their actions have consequences.
We have that luxury right now. Ukraine does not. So the idea is that we can help Ukraine by not doing business with companies that are making extra special bonus money by selling their products with a defacto monopoly in Russia right now
Who’s efforts? From what I can see, only North America and Europe have joined in this so-called international embargo. In fact, not even Mexico has any sanctions against Russia.
What’s the motivation for including companies based in countries that haven’t called for trade restrictions?
Sure, I agree fully that countries based in Europe or North America should follow government policy or relocate, but I’m not expecting companies to behave outside of the policy detailed by their government.
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.
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Actually, Mars was named after its founder, Franklin Clarence Mars.
Well deserved. Let’s boycott those fuckers.
That’s not how you spell “imprison the C-suite of”. Last time I read the Constitution, giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies was treason.
Yeah but America is not at war with Russia. Ukraine is. They might not be allies, and not on friendly terms whatsoever, but there’s still a line to be crossed before considering them as actual enemies.
Yes, during wartime. The US is not at war with Russia.
Could’ve fooled me. I was under the impression we were sending weapons and trainers to one of our allies who are fighting them. Sounds like an enemy to me.
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.
It’s even more delicious now that Kiev terrorist regime hates it!
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FYI: the “the” before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type “like Ukraine just accused you of.”
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
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
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.
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.
Hexbear sounds like a sigma male hangout. It sure is gay to defederate such a place.
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
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
It’s someone who claims to be liberal
😂 😂 😂
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
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.
The coconut is very subtle.
Vení, vidi, veni
About time. Add coke, facebook,google and microsoft too
Pepsi advertising the fighter jet is making more sense now.
They did also have the sixth largest naval fleet in the world for a brief period in 1989.
As a direct result of trading with Russia, even.
Next up: the nord vpn logo engraved on every bullet
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Mars better eat a snickers.
isn’t Snickers made by mars?
Any one turn the “m” upside down in “mars”
