50 points

Really need to bring back death penalties. These scum kill us and yet we do nothing.

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Not sure how this would change anything compared to life in prison?

Do these people get put in jail?

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They will make this go away with money.

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It’s rare for criminal action of corporate leaders to be charged, period.

I think a better starting place would be to change this. Be much more willing to hold malicious corporate leaders accountable for their crimes. They far too often fall behind the security of a corporate veil, which if investigated, usually ends up with a fine, a slap on the wrist.

Prosecutors are allowed to pierce the corporate veil for criminal actions, but they rarely do so.

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I agree, but being able to not be directly prosecuted is basically why corporations and the idea of incorporating exist at all.

It has always been about minimizing risk to the business owner.

It is bullshit and needs to change.

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The death penalty still exists (well, in many US states it does), it just doesn’t get applied to those who are Too Rich To Die.

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I don’t want death. Far too simple.

My solution would be drop them off on an uninhabited island.

Have cameras and make it a real survival program. People can do votes for stuff they want. Help fund it. If they live sweet of they don’t survive then also sweet.

They have no remorse for the damage they do to the planet and humans.

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But corporate death is… yanking their charter and seizing their holdings You know, kind of what they did to the Trump org And that was a long time coming

it can be done

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I think we need to figure out how to get them aboard a Russian airplane.

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I think it’s adorable that you still think the justice system is actually made for…you know…justice.

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Oh no I’m not an idiot. It’s just what I’d like. Of course nothing has happened. So it’s been and gone

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12 points

Dolla dolla bill

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Yeah, she whined for the bill, grind for the bill.

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27 points

I’m certain that justice will come swiftly to those responsible.

/s

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10 points

I’m sure they’ll be just…FINE.

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8 points

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the real American Dream.

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5 points

“True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step.”

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Considering that talc is found/mined near asbestos, shouldn’t other manufacturers of talcum powder have the same problems? How is J&J different?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/talc-asbestos-powder-facts.html

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The cover up is worse than the crime I guess

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1 point

I still use shower to shower. Is that a risky product?

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5 points

Check the ingredients list. I believe they switched to corn starch a long time ago.

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Will do, thanks.

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Found talc in a makeup palette I was gonna buy at Target. Definitely did not get it

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from at least 1971

This article is only dealing with the inhalation issue, but there have been previous cases about J&J with ovarian cancer and I just want to highlight a different Reuters article from a couple of years ago.

A report in the June 1966 edition of the American Journal of Diseases of Children, citing the deaths of three children who inhaled large amounts of talcum powder, concluded there was “no justification” for using the product on babies because it has “no medicinal value.”
"Beginning in the 1970s, J&J ran ads clearly intended to woo young women, in addition to its traditional marketing aimed at families with babies. “You start being sexy when you stop trying,” was the line from an ad that appeared in Seventeen magazine in 1972.
- “As worries about Baby Powder’s safety mounted, J&J focused its pitches on minority, overweight women”, Reuters 2021

After they lost the baby market they preyed on teenage girls and women’s insecurities by marketing it to them as a part of “feminine hygiene”. The talc migrated into their ovaries.

1972 Johnson & Johnson talc advertisment in Seventeen magazine

Image description

A young woman with long blonde hair sits at the base of a tree. A young man’s head rests in her lap looking up at her, and she touches his hair. The photo is taken from ground level, and the golden grass leaves partially conceal the couple. Text advertizing Johnson and Johnson talc is overlayed on the photo

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You start being sexy when you stop trying.

If a boy’s interested in you, it should be because you’re you. Not because you wear musky perfume, make-up, or anything else that makes you something you’re not.

Johnson’s Baby Powder lets you be you. Because Johnson’s is fresh and pure and natural. It won’t make you smell like a siren. It just has the smell of clean skin. And smoothing it on after you shower or bathe will keep your skin feeling clean and cool and silky. Johnson’s Baby Powder. Stop trying. Just try it.

Johnson & Johnson

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