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IBM of course has a long and uh, colorful history when it comes to complying with government programs violently opposed to diversity.

Must’ve invoked a lot of nostalgia for them seeing Musk’s inauguration speech.

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let's be more direct and truthful - ibm directly aided the third reich in their despicable actions. full stop.

in kindness to the previous poster, they are being as direct and truthful as one can be on a platform that has tilted hard to the right in the past 5 years and where discussion of the alluded-to-salute is flagged [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774621

It’s striking how corporate complicity in systematic oppression can be sanitized over time until egregious patterns only resurface as political talking points.

I attended a talk given by a local author who wrote a book about his father being the first black software engineer at IBM, who joined with several women around 1950, and the gist was that it was mostly to take some heat off of them for this collaboration.

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