ibm saying "we will not do business with this nazi sympathizer contracted by the united states government" must be a fun full circle moment for them - ThreadSky

parsnip.bsky.social • 473 days ago

ibm saying "we will not do business with this nazi sympathizer contracted by the united states government" must be a fun full circle moment for them

Reposted from Media Matters for America

NEW: IBM released a statement to the Financial Times saying that it has “suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.” www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk...

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tommytimp.bsky.social•473 days ago

DehoMAGA

renaguila.bsky.social•473 days ago

If they worked with Henry Ford, well…definitely.

parsnip.bsky.social•473 days ago

ibm itself contracted directly for nazi germany while also contracting for the us (including work in the japanese-american internment camps), and is implicated in the management of auschwitz and treblinka

renaguila.bsky.social•473 days ago

Oh right. Wow.

fcburleigh.bsky.social•473 days ago

IBM was the last "big brand" I'd been seeing over there the past few months. Everything else was low-value junk. Piss on the lot of them.

(I've closed my X tab for the last time, btw.)

davewithturbos.bsky.social•472 days ago

IBM: "We have investigated and determined our ads were purposely put by a Nazi post, We will continue advertising now that we know it was not an accident."

hurbcherpley.bsky.social•473 days ago

I guess 80 years too late is better than never at all

stealmyposts.bsky.social•111 days ago

IBM may not but their wholely owned subsidiary does.

https://books.google.com/books/about/IBM_and_the_Holocaust.html?id=ICISEAAAQBAJ

20caz23.bsky.social•473 days ago

Burn. Slice. Wound. I hope the kids are learning about that in middle school or high school at the latest these days.

jefemuka.bsky.social•473 days ago

"I can't believe we got another crack at this"
"Don't fuck it up this time!!!"

cajsa.bsky.social•473 days ago

lol

cajsa.bsky.social•473 days ago

I probably should have a deeper, more historical quip than lol, but IBM doing the right thing truly is a lol.

rainsurname.bsky.social•473 days ago

If my books were fully unpacked, I'd have responded with a pic of a book about IBM collaborating with the Nazis.

cajsa.bsky.social•110 days ago

Yeah, that was wandering through my mind

gaudipern.bsky.social•473 days ago

It'd probably help if this Nazi sympathizer looked like he could invent a paperclip, much less be tapped for the project.

hammancheez.bsky.social•473 days ago

Lmao

jojowiththeflow.bsky.social•473 days ago

* "we will not be seen to do business with..." etc

livfreeorcry.gay•473 days ago

IBM really said "we absolutely will not do that a fifth time"

jjinandtonic.bsky.social•473 days ago

You know what they say, deal with Nazi’s once, shame on me. Deal with Nazis twice, even more shame on me. Deal with Nazis again? There’s a bit of a patter. Deal with Nazis a fourth time? Well, if the shareholders demand it. But deal with Nazis a fifth time? That’s a bridge too far

phyrkrakr.bsky.social•473 days ago

Can I super nerd out for a minute?

This sounds like operation market garden almost

livfreeorcry.gay•473 days ago

...is it because "A Bridge Too Far" is the title of a movie about operation market garden?

phyrkrakr.bsky.social•473 days ago

Oh. Huh.

Apparently I internalized that without realizing.

Uhhhhh...that's the movie with "MY COCAINE" as the tank commander, right?

phyrkrakr.bsky.social•473 days ago

And like six other Oscar nominees, like Redford, Gould, uhhh, the guy who played Hannibal Lecter, Sean Connery (he was at least nommed, right?) and the dad from Paper Moon?