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[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You mean like Nike in Bangladesh, but without the wire fences and just through the use of police enforced and government backed brutality, when the workers tried to rally for better work conditions?

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'd risk, with a good degree of comfort, that the negotiations would have been more along the lines of "serve your country and be paid for it or don't serve your country and go to a concentration camp and die a miserable death", the last part as subtext.

You do not negotiate with any sort of dictatorial regime. The regime holds all the cards, including the cards the other players think they have in hand.

BMW and, by extension, any company, be it small or large, cooperating with any regime is understandable. It's that or risk a terrible, more or less public, demise. That is why dictatorial regimes go to great lenghts to ensure companies and business owners favor by putting large quantities of money and/or resources in their hands.

Self preservation is easy to turn into greed.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago

That's devious.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heerily similar, isn't it?

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use a derivative of this browser for what I call "junk surfing" and I find it personally satisfying to feed it garbage searches, just for the fun of collecting an obscure crypto I know will never accrue any true value.

But if they are willing to give it to me, I'll take it.

The important searches go through FF or the DuckDuckGo browser.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago (31 children)

So lets stop to consider, regardless of that nazi memorabilia.

You live under a fascist dictatorial regime. There are very few options available for you to live a relatively uneventful life.

Either you're an open, true, supporter, a passive one or a dissimulated dicident. Yes, there are more options available, but lets take these as the most broad categories.

Now let us consider that your regime an enacted several acts of domestic, unprovoked violence, internal purges and other assorted brutal and unpredictable actions against social peace and stability, in order to cement its unquestionable power over an entire nation.

Then, that same regime advances to a state of war, where all resources and infrastructure are comandeered to bolster the military.

At some point, companies are put a very simple option: either they cooperate and remain active or they refuse and suffer the consequences, that at best can be simple nationalization and purge of the heads.

Considering all of this, BMW supporting Germany's war effort is understanble.

Do I agree with that decision? No. But do I understand it? Yes.

Cooperate and live or refuse and die? Not an hard choice, especially if a lot of money is put on the table.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 3 points 2 years ago

Uso Oukitel já vai para uns 10 anos. Comprei o primeiro para servir de vítima no trabalho, porque era barato, e revelou-se tão bom que adoptei a marca e converti toda a gente que pude.

Demonstram uma excelente relação custo/qualidade e desde que a marca se virou para o segmento de terminais robustos, abriram uma oferta de telefones com boas especificações e aspecto invulgar.

O telefone que uso no dia a dia tem quase 4 anos de uso e mantém-se em força.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago

Aren't we forgetting about Portugal? The spanish can't hold a candle to the portuguese when it comes to "getting to know" other peoples. In the biblical sense.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 5 points 2 years ago

Or...

Buy a pack of regular gummy bears, put them in a jar and force them to watch their god being slowly devoured over the course of a year.

[–] qyron@lemmy.pt 10 points 2 years ago

That's a very original way to wish for someone's demise.

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