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Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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On X, Conservative commentator Candace Owens called Pietsch "young and stupid" after her video went viral: "Now any company that googles Brittany Pietsch will come across this video of her secretly recording the company she was employed at to expose them for doing their job. Unbelievably shortsighted."

Candace Owens is also known for her flippant suggestion that 'Hitler was trying to make Germany great again'. If the best source the BBC can come up with for the alternative POV is a nazi-adjacent social media troll, perhaps they should reconsider their cognitive biases.

Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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On X, Conservative commentator Candace Owens called Pietsch "young and stupid" after her video went viral: "Now any company that googles Brittany Pietsch will come across this video of her secretly recording the company she was employed at to expose them for doing their job. Unbelievably shortsighted." Candace Owens is also known for her flippant suggestion that 'Hitler was trying to make Germany great again'. If the…

Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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On X, Conservative commentator Candace Owens called Pietsch "young and stupid" after her video went viral: "Now any company that googles Brittany Pietsch will come across this video of her secretly recording the company she was employed at to expose them for doing their job. Unbelievably shortsighted." Candace Owens is also known for her flippant suggestion that 'Hitler was trying to make Germany great again'. If the…

Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

Credibility matters. If someone is equivocating genocide with “making Germany great again”, it deserves to be pointed out and their testimony taken with a huge grain of salt.

Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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On X, Conservative commentator Candace Owens called Pietsch "young and stupid" after her video went viral: "Now any company that googles Brittany Pietsch will come across this video of her secretly recording the company she was employed at to expose them for doing their job. Unbelievably shortsighted." Candace Owens is also known for her flippant suggestion that 'Hitler was trying to make Germany great again'. If the…

Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

I was under the impression that the German economy was vastly improved under Hitler, so I think that point at least is valid.

Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

I was under the impression that the German economy was vastly improved under Hitler, so I think that point at least is valid.

Because he funded military and conquest paid for that. In the long run he devastated Germany and half Europe with it.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

I was under the impression that the German economy was vastly improved under Hitler, so I think that point at least is valid.

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Re: Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?

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On X, Conservative commentator Candace Owens called Pietsch "young and stupid" after her video went viral: "Now any company that googles Brittany Pietsch will come across this video of her secretly recording the company she was employed at to expose them for doing their job. Unbelievably shortsighted." Candace Owens is also known for her flippant suggestion that 'Hitler was trying to make Germany great again'. If the…

Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.

While the risk is obvious, what is the alternative ?

You can go down as a number on the spreadsheet, or you can show everyone else they are also numbers on a spreadsheet.

Her behaviour is a first step towards a different workplace. The effectiveness is questionable, but what more can a single, non organized individual can do ?

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