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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.

The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.

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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They had IDF contracts for decades as well. Seriously if they had a problem with this and this is not a PR stunt by this person they are choosing an odd time to make this statement.

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- IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?
  
  Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.
  
  And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.
  
  Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
  
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  - RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes because their military work has been public for decades and it isn’t as if the IDF just started becoming problematic in 2023.
    
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- Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Literally this
  
  It’s like they are signaling to the world guess virtuous they are
  
  A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
  
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  - RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Exactly, I would get if you work for a company that just got involved in the military fields but this is microsoft.
    
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