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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

ticapnews said:
IBM still has the lead by helping the Nazis build the death camps, but Apple is closing the gap.
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  • British East India Company enslaved farmers and used starvation to coerce compliance
  • Dutch East India Company used massive violence, massacre, and forced labor to maximize rubber production in Batavia
  • Pemberton Mill forced Massachusetts employees into slave conditions and brutally put down opposition leading to mass death
  • IG Farben produced Zyklon B for the death camps
  • Krupp used slave labor heavily during WW2
  • SNCF ran the French rail lines that shipped people to the death camps
  • Shell kidnapped and handed over protesters to the Nigerian government for torture and murder in the 70s
  • Lafarge knowlingly laundered money to ISIS through their cement business in the 2010s
  • Lundin assisted Sudan in committing war crimes to protect their Swedish oil concession recently
And a thousand other incidents.

Capitalism is entirely consistent with genocide and crimes against humanity.
 
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Kepler said:
  • British East India Company enslaved farmers and used starvation to coerce compliance
  • Dutch East India Company used massive violence, massacre, and forced labor to maximize rubber production in Batavia
  • Pemberton Mill forced Massachusetts employees into slave conditions and brutally put down opposition leading to mass death
  • IG Farben produced Zyklon B for the death camps
  • Krupp used slave labor heavily during WW2
  • SNCF ran the French rail lines that shipped people to the death camps
  • Shell kidnapped and handed over protesters to the Nigerian government for torture and murder in the 70s
  • Lafarge knowlingly laundered money to ISIS through their cement business in the 2010s
  • Lundin assisted Sudan in committing war crimes to protect their Swedish oil concession recently
And a thousand other incidents.

Capitalism is entirely consistent with genocide and crimes against humanity.
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a bit obscure, but great book: The Nutmeg's curse by indian Amitav Ghosh. It's basically connecting climate change to colonialism and capitalism, and the titular story of the nutmeg trees on the Banda islands and how the dutch east india company brutalized and ruined them.
 
Kepler said:
Like here, it may take an opposition supermajority to save Hungary.

Here's hoping they can break Orban's fascism on Sunday.
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However, three years of economic stagnation and soaring living costs, along with the enrichment of oligarchs close to the government, have angered voters.
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All around the world and throughout history, same song. Autocrats only last as long as they keep their military-police and a majority of their civvies fed and feeling secure.
 
Hungarian opposition candidate Peter Magyar, who somehow did not get Navalnyed, yet, is campaigning in the heart of Orban's rural strongholds. He's a hunk, too.

Hopefully Tisza wins by enough that Orban can't steal it. No illusions, though. This is like Poland. The opponent of the fasc is rightwing. They just aren't fasc and they aren't pathologically against the EU.
 
Remarkably, the rise of Peter Magyar in Hungary turned on an incident involving... kid diddling. Is that all people in power do now?

After graduating with a law degree from a Catholic university in 2003, Magyar began working as a lawyer. In 2006, while Fidesz was in opposition, he provided pro bono legal representation to anti-government demonstrators arrested during violent protests against the then-Socialist government.

That same year, he married fellow lawyer Judit Varga, who would later become one of Orbán’s most prominent ministers. The couple moved to Brussels in 2009, where Varga worked advising a Hungarian member of the European Parliament.

During their years abroad, alongside a stint as a stay-at-home father for their three children, Magyar worked for Hungary’s Foreign Ministry and as a diplomat with its permanent representation to the European Union.

After returning to Hungary with his family in 2018, Magyar moved into leadership roles at several state-affiliated institutions. Meanwhile, Varga’s star was rising within Fidesz, and she was appointed justice minister in 2019. Alongside Katalin Novák, an Orbán ally who in 2022 became Hungary’s youngest president and the first woman to hold the office, Varga was widely seen as a possible successor to Orbán.

But a political scandal in 2024 was soon to change Magyar’s personal and political trajectory, and fundamentally transform Hungarian politics.

After returning from Brussels, Magyar’s relationship with Varga deteriorated, and the couple divorced in 2023.

The following year, Varga was implicated in a scandal that rocked Hungary when it emerged that President Novák had granted a pardon to a convicted accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. The decision shocked the country and led to Novák’s resignation, while Varga, who had endorsed the pardon, also stepped down.

The next day, Magyar gave a lengthy interview to the popular Hungarian YouTube channel Partizán in which he publicly broke with Fidesz, accusing Orbán’s government of systemic corruption and operating in the interests of a small circle of political and economic elites.

The interview quickly went viral, drawing more than 2 million views in a country of fewer than 10 million, and transformed Magyar from a relatively obscure insider into a national political figure overnight.

In the weeks that followed, he intensified his criticism of the government and began organizing public events. On March 15, Hungary’s national holiday, he addressed thousands of supporters in Budapest and announced plans to launch a new political movement that would later become the Tisza party.
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