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threemonkeys ([personal profile] threemonkeys) wrote2006-03-24 09:41 am

Glug glug gulp

Forget violent suppression of protest, forget brutal clearances of homes, forget land seizures, forget rampant corruption and racial oppression etc. You know a country is really in trouble when it runs out of Coca Cola.

[identity profile] markdeniz.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
I just wish they'd run out in more countries!
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[identity profile] threemonkeys.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
I did mentally note your recent post when I was posting this. A country has to be in hugely bad shape when a heartless profit-only "capitalism on a scary scale" mega-corp like coca cola won't have anything to do with it. They don't leave countries for moral reasons, so the country has to be a real basket case. I wouldn't wish Zimbabwe's circumstances on any country.

So yes I get your point, but the reasons for them leaving other countries has to be different.

[identity profile] markdeniz.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! I was more in favour of Coca-Cola leaving the world stage.

Of course I don't want Zimbabwe to happen anywhere else but of course it is (and does) on a regular basis.