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by syrgian 865 days ago
If a non-notable person tweeted this, they might have lost their livelihood.
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Cancel mobs for stuff like this for Joe Average may have worked in 2018, but now are effectively over. It's equals parts a post-ZIRP cultural shift of companies no longer pretending to care about DEI, a post-Elon Twitter cultural shift for what's seen as acceptable, and a post-Oct 7 shift where, frankly, companies are now scared shitless to take political stances in general because of how sensitive the topic of the current war in the middle east is.
They might, or they might be one of thousands of people on a tuesday
Um... Have you been on Twitter lately?