[WSMDiscuss] Covid-19 vaccine/treatment apartheid endorsed at WTO today, damn it

[Estelle Fein]

No.  You did not get that wrong 
Yes, the new naming is far more acceptable 

Rotten action by the elite is never a good thing, but language is important and imperialist sounds better than jerk 






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> On Feb 4, 2021, at 11:55 PM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
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> 
> Thanks Estelle, but on this...
> 
> On 2/5/2021 8:25 AM, Estelle Fein wrote:
>> He is not a jerk. He is definitely not in the same ball park as Jair Bolsonaro
>> Neither is Justin Trudeau 
> Their delegates sure carried out an identical mandate yesterday, didn't they: protecting Big Pharma profits, as corporate tools, against the majority world's (and even their own society's) public interest.
> 
> Have I got that wrong? 
> 
> Yeah, the word "jerk" is not appropriate for these three lads.
> 
> "Imperialists" and "subimperialists" work better.
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