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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Taxpayers don't have a choice.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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?

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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