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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With that logic, everyone that did any business with Germany in the 1930s “helped the Holocaust”.

Exactly, they did. A corporation not being aware of what was happening, as Jews are leaving the country to save their lives? right...

The same can be said about corporations currently working Israel, the U.S, China, Russia, etc. These corporations are and were a significant part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pre-internet fog of war was on a whole different level; it's not like Anne Frank was positing tiktoks from inside Germany explaining what was happening.

Modern day corporations have no such excuse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe, though I'd imagine a company like IBM would be seeing it's Jewish employees fleeing the country or attempting to and have some idea of why.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did anyone who paid any US tax help the government intern Japanese?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Taxpayers don't have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called not paying taxes.

Don't the US have a strong "sovereign self-made man" movement that unacknowledges taxes and federal law enforcement among other things?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unless you're worth tens of millions or more the U.S. government does not fuck around if you owe them. Wages will be garnished, if that's not an option prosecution is.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can leave(or could at the time), now you have to renounce citizenship.