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Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by xyzzyz on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:15PM (#25410357)
Maybe the corporations do sometimes positive stuff too. You know, like vaccines.
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by rossdavidh on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:57PM (#25411759)
Of course they do. If I were an African-American, I would be suspicious that they might be doing that in a way that puts more risk on me, and more benefit on people that look like the ones in the boardroom. Not saying that's true, but I could totally understand how any African-American who knows their history, would be more suspicious than the average white American.
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by pmiller2 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:21PM (#25410407)
I hate to Godwin this thread already, but, you know, Hitler did positive things, too. For neither corporations nor Hitler do these things make up for literal crimes against humanity they have committed.

https://www.quora.com/We-all-know-the-evil-that-Hitler-did-W...

Edit: Well, since people are obviously not even reading the link, I'm going to quote the bullet points from the first answer in nearly their entirety:

> Nazi regime was the first to introduce animal rights and limited hunting seasons. Hitler had outlawed animal testing (who needs animals when you got thousands of Untermenschen).

> Nazis had the first public anti smoking campaign at a time when smoking was not linked to cancer.

> Hitler had authorized extensive research on cancer and various venereal diseases and abundance of medicine for public.

> Nazi labour laws were best in contemporary world. Reduced work hours, periodic breaks, paid holidays and sponsored trips to Italy as perks.

> Promoted sports culture among youth which led to Germany being a sports power house.

> Hosted the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

> Hitler had announced loans of 1000 Reichsmark (10 month salary in 1939) for married couples at minimal interest and waivers for birth of first child.

> Volkswagen - people's car. Personalized Cars for average germans was laid out in 1937. Volkswagen is an extremely popular brand now.

> German Autobahn(super highways) was introduced in Hitler's era.

> Hitler had forbade German army from using mustard gas or any sort of chemical weapons on enemy forces because of the trauma he suffered in WW1 from mustard gas. As a result, deadly gas warfare of WW 1 was never seen in WW 2.

> Nazis were pioneers in rocket science. America's space programs were guided and led by former Nazi scientists like Werner von Braun and Arthur Rudolph.

Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by foldingmoney on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:16PM (#25413146)
> Nazi labour laws were best in contemporary world. Reduced work hours, periodic breaks, paid holidays and sponsored trips to Italy as perks.

They got sponsored trips to a lot of places in Europe: Poland, France, Russia...probably best to avoid that last one though.

Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by pmiller2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:25AM (#25415807)
You know that's precisely my point, right? There's a long list of things they did that were right, good, and/or positive, but that doesn't excuse crimes against humanity.