Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
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After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      439·
      1 year ago

      Yes removing a blue checkmark is exactly the same as being kidnapped off the street and sent to a work camp.

      • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        before the Nazi party came to power, they would show up to rallys, protests and town squares to silence political opponents through intimidation and physical violence.
        A lot of people would consider Twitter a modern day digital “Town square”. i would say it’s eerily similar, the main difference is that there’s no physical violence just the silence.

          • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            That worked out stellar for Weimar Germany, didn’t it?

            Unless you know nothing of the time before Hitlers rise to power and just how bloods it was.

              • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                you live in an interesting world, either you wait until some far right threat as built it’s self up and radicalized, or do exactly that, but this time try to shoot first.

                the whole idea of maybe there was a bunch of stuff leading up to the Nazis threatening to shoot you that you could intercede in, stopping the whole need for shooting in the first place apparently never crossed your mind.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a big difference between how people act with anonymity and how they act in real life.

          There are definitely real Nazis. They are definitely bad guys. Removing a blue checkmark is not anywhere close to the same as people being deported to concentration camps in the literal Holocaust.

          Do you understand how ridiculous this sounds?

          Nothing is going to happen to any striking workers. No one is “coming” for the actual trade unionists.

          • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Elon and the Twitter company are not anonymous? They’re using their position to actively bury opinions they dislike. by removing a blue check it means less people will see union organizing efforts and messaging.

            The Nazi started deporting after they came into power and again they came into power and held their power by silencing their opposition. Stop being a Corpo fasist apologist.