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”
What mistake?
IBM profited handsomely off the Holocaust… just like a lot of European and US capitalists did.
It was no mistake - it’s capitalism working as designed.
And Mao profited handsomely over a manmade famine. It really isn’t about the economic system.
Did IBM enthusiastically help out with that one, too?
There’s no design. It’s just human nature.
Capitalism is not “human nature.”
Stop making excuses for parasites.
I think they were referring to greed, not capitalism specifically. I think there’s a much stronger argument that greed is a part of human nature. Capitalism is just our latest attempt to harness it.
Making profit from mass murder is not human nature.
It is for some humans though and it has been like this for as far as we have records. It is human nature to sell out your kind for some.
If it’s (supposedly) “human nature” then why don’t all humans do it? You don’t see the entirety of humanity volunteering to be police and repress their own for the rich, do you?
There is a spectrum of human nature of course. It is why I said “some”. Not you or I, but there are plenty who will sell you out and that type of human has been a monkey on our back since forever. Sadly, we idolize many of them and given them their power, which begs the bigger question…is it our nature as a species to create the exploitative environments?
No. We don’t. There’s a good reason they have spent uncountable trillions on propaganda - if we were to see them for what they are, there’d be no idolization. If it was “human nature” to idolize these parasites they wouldn’t need that, would they?
That is only true for those of us with a mind that can see through their BS and are more logical/rational and less emotional. Those who are more in the emotional/group think camp cannot see the lies as they are blinded sadly. I’ve come to accept that it may be as much as 30% of the population that falls into this camp.
I’m no more logical and rational than the guy living on the street corner - in fact, it seems to me it’s the people who claim logic and rationality who turns out to be the easiest to fool with this right-wing bullshit.
From what I understand, history has proven otherwise. Wars are always very profitable for certain groups.