They love their persecution complex, don’t they?

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      Yeah, came here to post this. Unless it’s made legally binding these statements mean fuck all.

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      Isn’t that kind of the point? Put pressure on employers so this doesn’t happen?

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          I didn’t say he does this to protect employees, I think he’s doing this to protect hate speech on Twitter. Someone says something discriminating or other some other right wing bullshit on Twitter? Can’t fire them because that might get really expensive.

          Elon wants to protect his far right echo chamber; free speech and all that.

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            The biggest problems the far-right have had lately (apart from the severe emotional ones) have all had to do with deplatforming.

            If you spent a few months kicking around ideas about how you could address that, you’d end up with list near identical to Musks actions with Twitter. Shame the platforms, buy the platforms, cut the moderation teams, reinstate and signal boost key figures.

            So it’s completely fair to assume that’s exactly what Musk has been doing, especially when you see how selectively his “free speech absolutism” is applied.

            Now that that “todo list for a raging cunt” has been ticked off, how would you push things further?

            Well, the problem the far-right hit when they pushed further and went mask-off at rallies like “Unite the Right” was that being a neo-nazi ruins your life. Their friends, family, schools and workplaces dropped them like a fistful of shit – the correct response to finding out that someone in your life thinks that genocide is an appropriate solution to the problems straight, white men face.

            Musk can’t pay people’s children to call them or wives to come back, but he can try and bully workplaces into keeping on an employee whose wages are spent on tiki torches and khaki shorts, so that’s what he’s doing next.

            The far-right’s third favourite thing after genocide and slurs has always been brainstorming how to “red pill” vulnerable people into joining their shitty cause, all the way back to awkward Stormfront forum raids.

            The only difference between them and Musk is that Musk has billions of dollars backing him.

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    Be a fascist piece of shit at work bro, I totally got you covered!

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    Musk hasn’t paid his own legal bills, his ex employees for their severance, or the rent for Twitter offices on multiple continents, his word is as good as Donald Trumps.

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    He qualified it by specifying it’s if you were “unfairly” facing repercussions, which of course means he can deny or accept anyone he wants for any reason that he wants and still claim he’s upholding his pledge.

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      “unfair” doesn’t mean shit in court. Either you were fired for a protected reason or you weren’t. Being a Nazi is not a protected class.

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        Of course, it’s just his “get out of jail free” card to save face publicly when he starts rejecting requests.

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    So Trump’s “will be wild!” tweet that resulted in impeachment and 4 federal felonies could get his legal bills funded by Musk? 🤔

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    So if you post company secrets on X, when you get sued X will pay your lawyer fees?

    I think that will happen the day after X starts paying rent.

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    Is there any evidence of an employer persecuting someone for what their post or like on twitter?

    And I don’t mean right wing nutjobs getting fired for posting hateful diatribes and being surprised cause mUh FrEeZePeAcH