In that case I’d argue you can look at it from a different perspective: nothing bad is forever. Even brands - and people - directly complicit in genocide can change for the better, and before that; seemingly regular people can be driven to commit mad atrocities. This is a very important lesson today especially, as we are repeating history

Here in Sweden most people use Swish

So, if the Volkswagen Group car brands all dissolved and the people in charge created a new company that’d be just fine? Why would we boycott a company for what happened 80 years ago? We can just build a wall around Germany then.

What exactly is problematic? The past has happened and it cannot be changed; how you deal with it is the only question, and the Germans in particular have dealt with it admirably. It only matters what they do with they’re given. Nothing is static, especially not a company which is just a reflection of their owners and employees.

Would it make you or anyone happier if we drove in Skodas rather than Volkswagens?

Unless it’s the same people in charge of the company as it was in 1941 then it doesn’t matter. Everyone knows that many German companies have a terrible past, but they’ve long since taken a clear stance against it. There is literally no correlation between these German car brands and Tesla. It matters what they do today (and possibly the recent past).

If you want to boycott things over the distant past you literally couldn’t use anything.

Tesla deserves this because of Elon’s current actions. If he steps or gets removed and Tesla continues to operate with a different philosophy there should be no issue with them in, say, 15 years.

How is it in any way relevant what German car makers were doing 80+ years ago? Unless you also think all modern-day Germans should be “cancelled”.

Apart from that I agree, the American car lobby has been terrible for public transport development and green energy

Oh that’s nice; far up north. Hope you’ll enjoy it up there! All the best and awesome you’re choosing to come here!

Where you going to? I’m a data engineer living in Malmö. I can help you get settled if you’re in Skåne

Don’t worry you won’t make 160k in Sweden :(

I mean, if it’s in Saudi Arabia you know the royal family is in full control, so in this it kind of makes sense

No worries, happens to the best of us! I was also genuinely wondering if I missed another fork by that name

Is there actually a librefox too? I only know of Librewolf which I started using

I saw some guys getting banned because they were happy the far-right anti-democratic politicians in Romania got served by the legal system. Can’t trust any platforms owned by these murican tech bros

Exactly. State-sponsored murder is thumbs up, but hoping someone slaps a megalomaniac, fascist, wanna-take-over-the-world, drug-addicted maniac is way over the line.

Min kone og jeg købte Split Fiction i torsdags da det kom ud. Nu er vi nået til sidste kapital! Vi har tidligere spillet It Takes Two, hvilket er et super fedt spil, men det her er endnu federe!

Summa summarum: anbefaler det kraftigt!

I narrowly missed out on a ban for saying that any Nazi deserves to get slapped. Apparently that’s “encouraging violence”

I just got a “strong warning” for saying that Trump should’ve been punished for his crimes and for hoping that Elon happens to fall unto a Ukrainian guy’s fist…

Apparently they don’t condone that, but anything related to MAGA and “libtards” is perfectly fine

I do not have to be a registered nurse to change the Operative System on my phone? Well, that’d be weird!

That’s the idea! Although I also found one other OS that looks cool, but the name escapes me rn.

Have you made the jump?

I’m almost there! Gonna install a new OS on my phone in the weekend, then I’m completely murica free.

Next step: convincing and helping others

Edit: except my payment cards, although I try to use my phone whenever I can (which still uses SWIFT, I guess)

Well, seeing as it’s written in German: Germany’s and Austria’s largest national minorities are Turks. Estimates are tough, but at least 3 million people (probably more like 5 million) in Germany have Turkish ‘migrationshintergrund’ and up to 500 000 people in Austria. Many have been there since the early 1960s, and, although it hasn’t been all smooth sailing, Turkish culture and food has a significant place in both countries. So with that in mind I think this choice makes sense. Mexican food is lovely imo, but Germans don’t have particular ties to the culture, people or food. (Not to mention the fact that whenever there’s “Mexican” food in Europe broadly it’s a watered-down version of tex-mex, which I do still like anyway)