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along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 1 year ago

Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

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Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

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along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 1 year ago
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Musk’s direct question to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown from Republicans following Kirk’s death.
  • anachronist ( anachronist@midwest.social ) 
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    Someone with more time than me could easily do an entertaining mashup of Kirk and Mussolini quotes

    • Johannes Jacobs ( johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ) 
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      How many people did Charlie order to kill? Since when was he the dictator of America? Please do enlighten me, because clearly you know so much more then i do…

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        Charlie’s job was propaganda. He laundered the fascist ideology into mainstream discourse. If my coworker said some of the awful shit Charlie said, I’d just think he was a racist piece of shit, but I wouldn’t celebrate his murder (nor would I mourn it). But Charlie had an audience of millions, and was paid handsomely to spread his fascist propaganda. I opened my nicest bottle of scotch when I heard the news.

        • Johannes Jacobs ( johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ) 
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          Then you are just as bad as Charlie was. You just don’t have the same amount of followers.

          • electric_nan ( electric_nan@lemmy.ml ) 
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            I don’t give a shit what you think of me.

            • Johannes Jacobs ( johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ) 
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              That goes both ways, don’t worry.

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                That makes you just as bad as Charlie Kirk 🥸

                • Johannes Jacobs ( johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ) 
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                  In what world is celebrating someone’s assasination the same as not giving a fuck about someone’s opinion?

                  No wait… don’t answer that. I don’t even care how your weird brain works.

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                    It’s the exact same thing, sweaty. All things are the same. Every person is the same. Every opinion is the same. Every death is the same.

      • Sidhean ( Sidhean@piefed.social ) 
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        Show me a Charlie Kirk in charge of a country and I’ll show you Benito Mussolini.

        • Johannes Jacobs ( johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ) 
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          You’re proving my point. Charlie was never in charge of a country, so you can’t possibly compare him to Mussolini.

          • GeeDubHayduke ( GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            Charlie was never in charge of a country, so you can’t possibly compare him to Mussolini.

            Holy cognitive dissonance, Batman! That means there’s nothing comparable? So, which one was the human, and which one was the golfball?

            You can’t compare hate-spewing fascists because they because they weren’t the same RANK!

            I’m honestly impressed; you’ve surpassed Mental Gymnastics and created Mental Parkour.

      • GeeDubHayduke ( GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        How many people did Brian Thompson directly execute? Do you also argue his hands were clean?

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