• kool_newt@lemm.ee
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    With that logic, everyone that did any business with Germany in the 1930s “helped the Holocaust”.

    Exactly, they did. A corporation not being aware of what was happening, as Jews are leaving the country to save their lives? right…

    The same can be said about corporations currently working Israel, the U.S, China, Russia, etc. These corporations are and were a significant part of the problem.

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      Pre-internet fog of war was on a whole different level; it’s not like Anne Frank was positing tiktoks from inside Germany explaining what was happening.

      Modern day corporations have no such excuse.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe, though I’d imagine a company like IBM would be seeing it’s Jewish employees fleeing the country or attempting to and have some idea of why.

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      1 year ago

      Did anyone who paid any US tax help the government intern Japanese?

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          1 year ago

          It’s called not paying taxes.

          Don’t the US have a strong “sovereign self-made man” movement that unacknowledges taxes and federal law enforcement among other things?

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            Unless you’re worth tens of millions or more the U.S. government does not fuck around if you owe them. Wages will be garnished, if that’s not an option prosecution is.

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          They can leave(or could at the time), now you have to renounce citizenship.