• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    The four horsemen of selling out:

    • Big Pharma

    • Big Oil

    • The military-industrial complex

    • Surveillance tech companies

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    5 hours ago

    It could be worse like the insurance industry. It’s bad that we need tools of war, but it is not like raping you and your doctor for your health care while making the CEO and investors rich.

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      “it could be worse” the majority of the world would disagree the healthcare system is bad for America but your military corporation are bad for the planet. Israels little dog will supply them with all they need to bomb the middle east and have killed hundreds of thousands already. I promise you every genocide and massacre nowadays America is often complicit in

  • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    After I left Boeing, I made a pledge to never work for or belong to any groups that create weapons. Thankfully the X-32 failed and I got out when I did.

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    Selling out being an option for people just means the system is working as intended. People are so poor they are willing to compromise their morals to keep food on the table

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    16 hours ago

    It’s not like China is going to stop making weapons if I refuse to make weapons.

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      Doesn’t make you any less responsible when the fruits of your labor are used to murder civilians.

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          That’s a harder question to answer and depends more on your own moral compass. Do you believe that having better defensive capabilities empowers the users of your creation to feel safe enough to do evil things? I certainly don’t think you could absolve the makers of anti-missile systems who supply militaries that are committing genocide.

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        14 hours ago

        Almost all pollution is by industries and not your parents, so…

        If anything you could criticize them if they voted to keep the pollution going.

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          Buying a big SUV, shopping at h&m, eating red meat multiple times a week, and flying to the other side of the world during summer, are all worse than voting for climate change. Companies don’t pollute for the sake of it.

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            Check out the EPA’s stats on ghg emissions at this LINK. 28% of emissions total are from non-agriculture/shipping transportation, and if you break that down then 57% of the 28% are light duty vehicles, all larger road vehicles are 23%, and aircraft are 9%.

            Since 2005 emissions carbon-equivalent total of the USA has fallen about a billion metric tons thanks to awareness and federal programs to reduce and eliminate emissions, almost exclusively in the Electrical Power sector.

            So even if you cut out all consumer non-business transport you’re left with 72% of emissions. A person who votes to curttail polution does more good than a person who drives a hybrid.

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              Hybrids don’t reduce CO2 emissions that much anyway. Better to go all electric and vote for climate protection.

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        I suppose the difference is that a country doesn’t just get conquered by force if it stops polluting.

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        yeah this is a really stupid argument

        “It’s not like Israël is gonna stop killing Palestinians if I refuse to kill Palestinians”

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          I mean

          That’s true tho, pretty much nobody else murders Palestiniains but Israel still does.

          Change on all of these scales has to come from societies around the world, not from individuals.

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            pretty much nobody else murders Palestiniains but Israel still does.

            https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies

            Shortly after Oct. 7, the U.S. government started transferring massive amounts of weapons to Israel. By Dec. 25, Israel received more than 10,000 tons of weapons in 244 cargo planes and 20 ships from the U.S. These transfers included more than 15,000 bombs and 50,000 artillery shells within just the first month and a half. These transfers have been deliberately shrouded in secrecy to avoid public scrutiny and prevent Congress from exercising any meaningful oversight. Between October and the beginning of March, the U.S. approved more than 100 military sales to Israel, but publicly disclosed only two sales. A list of known U.S. arms transfers is maintained by the Forum on the Arms Trade.

            Much of these weapons were purchased using U.S. taxpayers’ money through the Foreign Military Sales program, while some were direct commercial sales purchased through Israel’s own budget. An undisclosed amount of weapons was also transferred from U.S. military stockpiles already stored in Israel, known as War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I). The use of WRSA-I to provide Israel with weapons serves to further obfuscate the full picture of U.S. arms transfers, as there is no public record of these stockpiles’ inventory.

            This is a form of corporate welfare not only for the largest weapons manufacturers, like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, and General Dynamics, which have seen their stock prices skyrocket, but also for companies that are not typically seen as part of the weapons industry, such as Caterpillar, Ford, and Toyota (see below).

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              I’m not saying the US government and US citizens aren’t contributing, but almost nobody, and I did specify that earlier, is going to get out of their chair, fly to Israel, and pull the trigger. At the end of the day, Israelis are the ones killing people no matter where the weapons come from. Whether or not each individual american decides to fly to palestine to commit a war crime doesn’t have any impact on the war crimes being committed: votes do.

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    Before I went independent, I made many thousands of parts for General Dynamics up to and including missile housings. It’s a shitty feeling.

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    My sib has a friend that constantly criticizes others b/c they marginally contribute to injustices in the world (one example is how a family friend votes that specifically puts others at a disadvantage for affordable housing, making them commute for hours on end). That friend also worked with Purdue Pharmaceuticals defense team during their lawsuit lol

    It’s crazy to me how so many ppl can be so oblivious to their own hypocrisies.

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    After a history of ethically questionable jobs, I thought I had escaped it into something almost benign where we were only wasting the money of other companies.
    Recently we started going balls deep into making AI products, and I feel very uncomfortable with it