Michael

See how Elon Musk gets away with the nazi salute? People have been calling him a nazi for months. People have been boycotting his products. Despite losing so much, he seemingly revels in the attention. When it comes down to it, he vehemently denies the accusation and the show goes on. His power over others remains. He’s rich as fuck, he can afford to weather any conventional storm we throw his way.

I’d rather spend my time and energy on more productive things. Like focusing people’s energy towards removing the wealth inequalities that create and enable individuals like him. Nobody should have that much wealth and power over others. Nobody should be able to openly commit election fraud (pay people for votes).

It’s not putting someone down to stick to the facts - the facts resonate with many people. Starlink, for example, is a monopoly. No single corporation should have a monopoly on satellite internet. If people focused on that, alongside his shady dealings with his other companies/products and the DOGE, things could move to a more productive direction.

Can we prove Elon Musk is a nazi? Is doing a salute, that has a shocking resemblance the nazi salute, even against the law in America in that context? It just seems like a waste of energy to focus on that. It’s a label and nothing improves by pointing it out and condemning him.

I choose to not practice condemning others or otherwise putting them down. Fighting hate with hate usually results in more hate. That’s my personal strategy, at least. Follow your heart, I say.

Thanks for making it clear that you aren’t being hateful.

From my perspective, you don’t need to parrot a line or respond to a barrage of questions.

Learning to be more sensitive and tolerant and actually changing takes time. It’s a process. If you indeed aren’t holding hate in your heart, it makes it all the easier to see the flip side.

Sorry. It’s one word. That’s literally ALL people want you to say to help them feel safe and comfortable. It doesn’t need to be hard.

Should your private message have been published? No, probably not. It was unfair to you.

Are people being unfair to accuse you of being a massive transphobe with the evidence at hand? I’d say so, but people are primed against people that hint at their transphobia through the use of particular terms.

And why wouldn’t they be? Individuals masking extreme hate towards transgender/etc. people with dogwhistles is something that happens frequently.

If you aren’t masking hate just say so and apologize.

It’s obvious to me that Nutomic and Dessalines both have gigantic hearts.

Anybody who promotes human rights and concepts like socialism are incredibly courageous.

Thank you for creating this platform. It’s a critically needed service for discourse. I hope others reconsider their strong stances against you and Dessalines.

Lemmy is of incredible value to humanity and not a moment passes where I am not grateful for this platform and the hard work put into it. I’m sure many, many others feel similarly.

It’s more likely that the capitalist would just try to rip the inventor off and take full credit for the innovation and out-compete the inventor (unless it was incredibly unique and patented very carefully/licensed to a megacorp).

You basically need to be an expert in patent law to be able to bring a product to market. Even then, it still doesn’t prevent copycats from also coming to market and completely obliterating you. You need to engage in lawfare to stop them - a patent is only as good as your ability to enforce it.

Of course, not every innovative product needs to be brought to market for others to enjoy in its unadulterated form and you certainly don’t need to profit from or receive credit for your innovations to innovate (which is the point of the meme). Open-source or 3D-printed technology is a net positive for humanity if people have interest to make it themselves or learn from it.

Google just needs broken up entirely. Corporations openly using their AI in war and engaging in mass surveillance is not the kind of world I want to live in.