• @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    23429 days 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.

    • magnetosphere
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      3229 days 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.

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      2029 days 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.

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          329 days ago

          I get the first one…no idea what the second references. It sounds like if something from transformers were crossed with the matrix, and handled by santa claus.

          Which if that existed sounds kind of terrifying.

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            1329 days ago

            Goebbels plus X/Twitter. Goebbels was Hitler’s propagandist

    • @MisterD@lemmy.ca
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      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.

  • Justin
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    12029 days ago

    When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

    • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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      2029 days ago

      I have no love for big corps, but they’re likely just reading the writing on the wall. they have to deal with retribution for the next 4-12 years and they have no interest becoming the rebels. I’m kinda impressed they stepped away at all other than it probably was money spent for nothing.

      • @fern@lemmy.autism.place
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        3129 days ago

        IBM supported the Nazis, and if they’re the only tech giant not fighting musk they’re going to get the kickbacks. Corps dont do “writing on the wall” anymore, they chase money, which may look similar but the goals are different.

  • katy ✨
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    7129 days ago

    wow who could have predicted this considering they’re the same companies who said they wouldn’t donate to republicans after january 6th three months before they started donating to republicans again.

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      I was going to say that’s incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything I have ever heard about Comcast seems to back up this move.

      I’m surprised about IBM though, more because I didn’t realize they were still around than anything else.

      • @Zacpod@lemmy.world
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        1328 days ago

        IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

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          328 days ago

          Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why would they even need a machine to count the prisoners? If they didn’t feed their victims and were planning to murder them anyways I’m having trouble understanding why they wouldn’t be okay with just a loose head count. Was it really just for counting?

          I hope I’m not coming across as insensitive, I’ve just never heard about this and it sounds so ominous.

          • @Zacpod@lemmy.world
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            628 days ago

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

            Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM’s punchcard technology.[2]: 351  In his book, Black charges that “without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler’s camps could have never managed the numbers they did.”[2]: 352

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              Dear God, they used a punch card like it was just another day on the job? I hope they didn’t make the “prisoners” do it. I don’t know why this is so chilling but something about having to count yourself like an object makes me feel sick.

            • @PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world
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              127 days ago

              I know I’m way over simplifying but starvation was one of many cruelties inflicted on victims during the holocaust. I don’t understand why Nazis would want to count people they intended to murder, but I think it’s important to try to understand as much as we can so we don’t let it happen again. Which is why I asked.

              • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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                126 days ago

                Well, if you’re that curious, there is a book about it. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail about what the systems were used for.

                They didn’t just truck people into the camps and immediately kill them, so they had to at least track capacity.

  • partial_accumen
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    5129 days ago

    I almost can’t blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.

    • @itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works
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      2629 days 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.

      • @j4yt33@feddit.org
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        2629 days ago

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

          • partial_accumen
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            1929 days 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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              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.

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                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.

                Do you not get that Trump will likely get two more Supreme court appointments? The third branch of our government is locked into conservative hands for the next 30 to 40 years now regardless of who gets elected afterward.

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      3928 days ago

      Disney’s clown management refused to air a trans focused episode because of the “political climate” saying that “LGBTQ+ experience are a sensitive issue” thus catering to bigots.

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        To be fair, knowing Disney’s track record it probably would have been as embarrassing as the short-lived super hero duo of Snowflake and Safespace…

        or the Transgender Unicorn Powerpuff Girls episode

        or the “Quagmire’s Dad” episode of Family Guy

        or the Women’s Prison episode of “Lost Girl”

        …Look I don’t trust big name mainstream companies to touch trans voices with a 69 foot pole in a way that makes me give any reaction other than “Can you just call me a slur and be done with it? That would be less offensive at this point!”

        (Though Indie platforms are a lot better at this given things like Celeste being an entire game comparing the trans experience of coming out and transitioning to climbing a mountain and Helluva Boss’ actually having Millie’s Sister be a likable character who is openly trans but not on a soapbox nor a punching line. Implying her existence is valid and not worth mocking OR apologizing for.)

        To be even farier, choosing neutrality in times of oppression means you side with the oppressor.

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      I think it’s more trying to win political favor by spending big with the company owned by a member of the incoming presidential administration.

      Or it’s just wanting to market their ads on that platform and as you said, not having the balls to stick to their boycott

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        That seems to be what everyone involved with a political party or major corporation did… Make a big show of “We resisted him once, and we’ll do it again!” then go “Okay, everyone it’s time to line up and kiss Orange Man ass! Biden will you please get the ball rolling with some more of that high road crap?”

  • MdRuckus
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    4529 days ago

    Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    4229 days ago

    That would be REALLY Corrupt if simply buying Ads on a Website was Enough to allow you to DIRECTLY INFLUENCE the President Of The United States! Fortunately Trump DIDNT put the Owner of X in charge of Important Oversight Decisions!

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        328 days ago

        True. But back then they made money on advertising. Now we’re funding them directly.

        Do you part - cancel the service.