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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

. . . as soon as it's profitable they'll do it again. What is there to lose for them?

What would IBM lose if they supported a holocaust again? Well - presuming we defeated those bastards again, they’d lose everything. I guess I just don’t buy that all corporate giants are salivating to support fascism, but maybe so. They’re certainly doing sweet fuckall against it at the moment.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

What would IBM lose if they supported a holocaust again? Well - presuming we defeated those bastards again, they’d lose everything.

Why do you think this? I'm actually curious. Volkswagen, for example, was literally a company that exclusively worked with the Nazis. After the war they were expanded to be even bigger. How many companies were actually harmed by working with the Nazis? How many have been harmed recently by working with fascists/extreme right wing groups?

Edit: I thought I should add this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

Two reasons:

One: Volkswagen is a German company so I'm not including them Two: IBM wouldn't be able to claim "that was then" or "we made mistakes" because all of it has already played out.

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve"

I don't think this is that. It's not a karma thing. It's a people vote with their wallets thing, and I don't think we're voting for out-loud-and-proud fascists. Seekrit crypto-fascists, of course.

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