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an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is so much to dig into here

This isn't as bad as it looks iirc, somewhere else I read this was because they were an anti-war org and those were declared illegal. No idea if they were anti war because the nazis should win, or anti war because war bad however.

[–] m@blat.at 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Soyweiser I don't think there was anything illegal about being anti-war in general, even in the UK and Canada - it was one of the things that differentiated conscientious objection there from conscientious objectors in Nazi Germany, who tended to get sent to concentration camps and/or shot. A lot of conscientious objectors who were granted exemption from the draft did alternative service instead such as working in factories or as farm workers or miners.

What was illegal, though, was (yes indeed) promoting the idea that the war was bad and therefore Hitler should be allowed to win.

[–] m@blat.at 4 points 1 year ago

@Soyweiser (One of my dad's schoolteachers was a conscientious objector - a Quaker who volunteered for the Friends Ambulance Unit and spent a lot more time in harm's way than much of the actual military did)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I have no idea btw, I'm just repeating what I read somewhere, and tbh, the journalism on this is pretty bad. (small example, why do they keep calling grimes musks ex wife?). (His grandfather also is somehow suddenly the leader of the org, which is not something mentioned by the wikipedia article).

They prob were on the pro nazi camp then.