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uejfiweun ◴[] No.42940754[source]
Dollar short and a day late. The future of the US tech industry belongs to those who weren't interested in performative woke nonsense like this during the last decade.
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1. bbqfog ◴[] No.42941529[source]
Protesting weapons manufacturing has been going on long before reactionaries started fearing the "woke" boogeyman. People protested Dupont for making napalm during the Vietnam war.
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2. uejfiweun ◴[] No.42942338[source]
There's a big difference between outsider activists protesting the actions of a company, and the actual leadership of a company choosing a less profitable path in order to seem more morally pure.
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3. bbqfog ◴[] No.42949196[source]
They're not "outsider activists", they're customers affecting the bottom line.