Edit: Replaced PayPal with Starlink

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        Thiel was kicked out of sold PayPal. Where are yall getting this PayPal connection with nazis? Sheesh.

        Edit: sorry I had that backwards. Musk was kicked out, thiel sold. Back in 2002. Literally 23 years ago.

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    Musk hasn’t been involved with PayPal for over 20 years. He lost his job as ceo over 20 years ago. The last dealing he had with them was having to pay them like almost $200 mill or something to have the x domain again

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    Don’t give money to Nazis no matter what.

    But it does help that each and everyone of those brand objectively suck in their respective field.

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      Divest. Invest in individual stocks you believe in which don’t profit off of war, and literal Nazi shit.

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      A bit day tradey, but short the stock, or sell covered calls? That way you don’t profit from the stock, and you can even make some theoretically risk-free money from people investing in Tesla and/or dilute Musk’s call options.

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    When you are buying from a local farm, you are supporting the trump-voting farmer… 👀

    (Its The Good Place problem all over again, somewhere in the supply chain, there’s a piece of shit, and you’re still technically contributing to evil)

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      If you know someone is directly a fascist, don’t buy from them if you can get the product elsewhere or it’s not needed. It’s that simple.

      Morals don’t get freely handed to you. You have to work for them.

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        Its easy for me to avoid muskscum, but there are people living in remote areas where starlink is the only usabke internet option, or for people living in (non-us) authoritarian countries, or warzones, and they unfortunately would need to deal with the devil to gain internet access.

        I wouldn’t blame someone for using starlink if that’s the only option. (Like for example, Ukraine had to use Starlink because russia destoryed all the communications infrastructure)

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          if you can get the product elsewhere or it’s not needed.

          There’s not yet viable star link alternatives. Yes, if someone points a gun at your head and tells you to buy something somewhat morally bad, buy it lmfao. But you bringing in extremes is quite frankly irrelevant to the average person’s buying habits.

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    Let us just be real here for a second. The solution has already been thought up and planned. Just like a bad marriage, some time apart will make one reconsider life choices.

    So let all the nazi’s go to space, have their happy mars, ‘The Expanse’ style.

    Then after we’ll see how we feel about each other. Breakup or no, no love lost.

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    Difficult list to look at for a few reasons. Some of these ventures plowed the way forward in their respective field.

    Even after the ‘innovation plateau’ of a few of these ventures, at least the engineers and other experts that actually did the innovating would be able to go work for the competition. At least in theory.

    It must be stressful to be in a position doing work you are skilled at - and might even enjoy - while your company’s leadership is publicly committed to causes that go against your belief systems.

    Though I suppose that’s not a problem unique to organisations beneath Musk.