• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    This is beautiful! It’s like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

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      8 months ago

      if people haven’t caught that half the shit we ready in the headlines is literally means nothing slop at this point, i don’t know man… just take me to the fucking farm already, put me out of my misery

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Takes sunzu2 to the farm, and hooks them up to the milking machine

        …what? I can’t kill you for meat. Nobody eats human meat. But I can milk ya!

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      8 months ago

      When Hitler needed to track the unwanted in his concentration camps, IBM was there.

      Today, Trump has selected IBM due to our experience in this field of Fascism.

      FYI: while this is not true, I’m sure most Americans will believe it.

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      8 months ago

      Ah, a history joke! Don’t forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.

      The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don’t remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.

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      8 months ago

      Still, “under $2,000” for a corporation of that size is a surprisingly low amount, compared to the others. Not even worth the negative publicity. Odd choice.

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    8 months ago

    of course they are, they might as well lick his asshole while they are at it. big corporations will always without exception do whatever is necessary to survive.

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      8 months ago

      They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.

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    8 months ago

    “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

    There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

    • itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      A majority of American citizens who voted…that’s an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.

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        8 months ago

        Well the ones who didn’t vote obviously weren’t too bothered by fascism and racism either, apparently

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            8 months ago

            Or saw that both sides probably lead to the same end eventually.

            Get out of here with that false equivalency bullshit. Trump’s cabinet picks so far are a Russian propaganda parroter for head of CIA, an anti-vax and raw milk advocate for Health and Human Services, a white supremacist tattooed person for Defense secretary and a suspected pedophile that is having their ethics hearing results blocked for Attorney General.

            Do you even think for a hot second that Harris would have make such unqualified and toxic choices for her cabinet?

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              8 months ago

              Eventually, not immediately. Harris would have been vastly more sane, more status quo. But it would’ve been kicking the can…even if Trump lost now, another Trump would run - and win - down the road. At least with Trump the insanity is out in the open. I mean these cabinet picks are insane. It would be funnier if we didn’t have to live with the consequences.

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I dropped Xitter as soon as it became apparent that Elon was going to buy it and started pirating Disney (and everyone else) shortly after. Couldn’t tell you the last time I bought anything IBM but I’ll have to be more careful about it. I’m switching to a local fiber provider so I’m leaving comcast in a couple of weeks.