• Shortstack@reddthat.com
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    21 days ago

    No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.

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    21 days ago

    This donkey about to get taught a lesson by nestle. He probably thinks he’s hot shit now but he poked the devil.

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          He built a compound for all his kids and baby mommas to live at. I’m sure he excluded his trans kid from that though.

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        It’s worse for him if they are kept alive because it’s a public reminder how much they hate him. Nestle starting shipping his kids the good food reserved for the lizard people only

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    21 days ago

    Anyone getting sued by him should just demand a jury trial. No way you’ll get enough Americans to side with musk on anything.

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      21 days ago

      On the scale of who is fucking up the world more, I’d have to award the trophy to Leon. Certainly fuck Nestle, but won’t someone please rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?

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        Elon is a twat and a menace for sure, but Nestlé have employed business strategies that literally killed infants and caused malnourishment…they are a completely different league of evil, far far worse than what Elon has done so far.

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    21 days ago

    Nothing says you believe in free market competition more, than suing a another private business, trying to force them to give you money

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    21 days ago

    You know you’ve fucked up when even Nestlé doesn’t want to work with you…

    Obligatory Fuck Nesté

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      21 days ago

      When people go we may use child slaves in our supply chain, steal and ruin water supplies, and bribe medical professionals to get discourage breastfeeding, but you’re too fucked up for us to work with then you know you’ve fucked up.

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        21 days ago

        To be clear, its not that twitter is too fucked up for nestle to work with, they absolutely would if they thought it would benefit them. Its that twitter has become so toxic that they see advertising there as a net negative.

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      21 days ago

      It’s harder to laugh it out of court when the plaintiff is in the government himself.

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        21 days ago

        There’s gotta be serious repercussions for this insane narcissist-autocratic behaviour. USA you’re not just embarrassing, but a liability.

  • pseudo@jlai.lu
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    21 days ago

    What person in it right mind initiate a legal battle with Nestlé??

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      Plenty actually, like former slaves from plantations which sold products to Nestle.

      …it’s part of the reason why Nestle is currently lobbying the EU to not dilute the supply chain act, those kinds of cases are a PITA for them, and the documentation they need to do for the supply chain act is exactly what they need to nib cases in the bud, “Here’s the inspections we did, here are transcripts of anonymous interviews with random workers at the plantation”, “If something slipped between the cracks we deeply regret that but we did do our due diligence, plaintiff’s beef is with their ex boss, not with us”.

      It is absolutely more expensive to pay an army of lawyers to defend yourself than it is to pay workers proper local wages and document that. Not to mention that people who run slave plantations don’t share their extra profit with Nestle.

      The other reason is that they don’t want smaller companies to have a competitive advantage: Smaller companies are not subject to those kinds of lawsuits, and also the ones complaining about the supply chain act. Nestle is also not at all keen on a consumer boycott from Africa.

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    21 days ago

    Throwing a temper tantrum because no-one wants to play with you. What a child!

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    21 days ago

    Are boycotts illegal? In this case I doubt there was an organized attempt, just some companies making individual business decisions. But even if Twitter can prove there was a boycott, is there a law against that?

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      The law doesn’t matter. With Musk’s position in the government this will basically end up as extortion: Settle or I’ll make things difficult for you.

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      21 days ago

      a certain amount of business collusion can be considered a cartel (other kind) and essentially monopolistic… but that’s usually price fixing… i don’t see how they could be compelled to advertise on a nazi platform.
      also, i respect these companies much more than any company that would, and consider this lawsuit great advertising
      but then again, the right trump appointed federal judge makes meaning pointless in law…

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      Boycotts are absolutely legal, you are completely entitled to decide who you don’t want to do business with. However, illegality is no longer required for the justice system to be weaponized against you, and President Musk just wants to make an example to others who might not want to do business with an actual Nazi.

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    21 days ago

    Can you please tag this elon, so that our spam filters work?

    It’s not practical to censor “x”

  • Darth_Mew@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    so a south African is suing a swiss company in American court? why just why is this theatrical bullshit allowed to go on so sick of this already times be changing too slowly we need the next phase already

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      20 days ago

      Its an american company suing an american subsidiary of a swiss company. It makes sense. You dont have to try very hard to find the ridiculousness in these people but this isnt it.