Gives me similar vibes to a southern plantation owner saying ‘my slaves are all happy; they’ve never complained to me!’
“Shit, they even sing while they work, they love it!”
What is the significance of the singing?
If this is an honest question: slaves in the US would sing songs as they toiled to help them cope with their hardship. From the slaveowners view the songs often seemed silly or full of hope, while the lyrics actually contained veiled instructions about insurrection or escape.
It said so on a packaging label so it must be true. What a relief. I was afraid someone was doing genocide, but marketing has proved me wrong.
Given so much you know about the world comes from corporations, how do you determine what’s true and what’s a lie? Just based on your feelings which were formed by social media algorithms?
Based on videos of people being brutalized, news articles, podcasts, conversations with others. There’s no algo on Lemmy and I don’t consume any other social media.
Do you think the people running the genocide are the same as the people working in the factories to support their loved ones?
At the end of the day, people will always be people, while megalomaniacal leaders are the ones using them to further their own goals.
SodaStream is still subject to boycott by the global, Palestinian-led BDS movement for Palestinian rights. Its new factory is actively complicit in Israel’s policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev). SodaStream’s mistreatment of and discrimination against Palestinian workers is not forgotten either.
https://bdsmovement.net/news/“sodastream-still-subject-boycott”
Sodastream is located in settled territory, and therefore an active participant in the settler-colonial project.
Agreed. We should be supporting Israelis who recognize and promote that the only solution to peace is harmonious coexistence. Calling it “marketing” seems irrelevant and disingenuous, about as solid an argument as calling “peace and love hippies” fakers.
Why do they say “Arabs” instead of “Palestinians“?
Aww man, I like using sodastream. Is there an alternative that isn’t directly tied to an apartheid state committing genocide?
I’d assume that most other carbonators aren’t made by Sodastream 👍
Arab is the allowed word for “Palestinian”
