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Also a company whose source of funding has been Saudi Arabia[1], known for oil and atrocities. No moral high ground here. [1]https://www.reuters.com/business/a
by baggachipz 2y ago
Also a company whose source of funding has been Saudi Arabia[1], known for oil and atrocities. No moral high ground here.
[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lucid-talks-raise-about-3-bln-including-saudis-pif-bloomberg-news-2023-05-31/ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lucid-...
- randerson 2y agoAnd a CEO who got $379 million in comp in 2022, more than half of their revenue for the year.
- ein0p 2y agoTo be fair nobody in the world is known more for atrocities than the United States. I’m afraid we don’t really have a moral high horse to sit on when it comes to that
- zaptrem 2y agoHow exactly do you define atrocities? Nazi Germany and most ancient empires come to mind here.
- ein0p 2y agoI mean in the world today. Nazi Germany no longer exists. The US wrecked 7 countries (8 if you count Palestine, where the US funded and armed a literal genocide), and killed over a million civilians in this century alone.
- zaptrem 2y agoThere are other modern countries that have done worse to (and killed many more of) their own civilians.