Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot all claimed they were trying save the world. When the private and public sectors march in lockstep with DIE/ESG and the 2020 COVID/BLM hystetia, that is the definition of leftist fascism. Brian Armstrong was brave for taking a stand, but many were silenced or lost their jobs.
The private and public sectors and media do indeed march in lockstep - the very definition of leftist fascism. At the moment I am distressed not to see the Gender Affirmation Complex (an outgrowth of DEI/ESG/CEI) take any kind of hit in the US - even after Michael Shellenberger's WPATH Files reporting and the Cass Review in the UK. Why do you suppose no Republican in Washington DC is even trying to do anything about this cult educational and medical scandal? The longer it goes on the more people will be hurt and the professional consequences for those involved will increase.
Also, I am a little tired of this constant assertion: "after George Floyd was killed". We can be upset the man is dead but also be aware that he died of a drug overdose.
I am a woman who worked for 40 years in tech. I had my share of disrespectful treatments by the bros, but each time I was able to put them in place because I was competent, not because I ran to HR to complain. As a matter of fact, the worst bosses I had were women. When Google fired Damore, I was furious because Damore was right. Women do think and work differently. I don't think it makes us worse engineers, but it is that real diversity of mindset that DEI morons are so afraid of.
They're still left leaning clowns. Let's not forget the two leftists at Twitter who banned speech before Musk took over and ended their reign of terror. Google is among the worst offenders, toadying for the Biden Justice Department. And all the swooning for the grifters at BLM? Did these woke nitwits who run these corporations try to claw back the tributes that went into buying mansions for the fraudsters who ran that sting? No they did not. Our so--called "elites" who run these companies are mostly apparatchiks who were advanced to positions beyond their competence. Real leaders lead. They don't follow trends. And reward fraud and outright stupidity
Policy is personnel in Washington, same in companies. And since I doubt there are any James Damores left they'd have to sweep out the entire workforce to clean this mess up- starting at the top. Good luck with that.
Well said, Bruce. I switched to an iPhone after 13 years of Androids mostly because my wife had a free upgrade to upsize her phone due to farsightedness and I saw it as an opportunity to say FU to communist Google.
Imagine being behind your company's public declaration of support for BLM, or a massive donation, only to realize you were totally conned. Instead of being mugged on the streets of NY, you were mugged by a brilliant grift. Coastal Elites weren't expecting that!
Of course, not a single mea culpa. Everyone is pretending like nothing happened. Hilarious.
Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end of the mass insanity called “woke” or “social justice” both of which are terms of racism, elitism, intolerance, and authoritarianism.
Given the spasm of Jew-hatred sweeping campuses, I would say that the worst is yet to come. Who could have imagined his country turning into 1930's Germany?
“Employers don’t have to tolerate that kind of behavior anymore,” says the former Google employee, who asked to remain anonymous. “The idea of bringing your whole self to work has turned into bringing your professional self to work.”
In other words, capitalism works!
And I sincerely hope that NONE of these left-wing assholes ever work again. They can live on the streets of Los Angeles, Portland and New York... there's plenty of room. And if they can't find a place to sleep on the streets, I hear there are LOTS of new tents going up at elite universities all across the US...
Please don’t send them to Los Angeles. Our former Mayor Eric Garcetti allowed Los Angeles to become Delhi West which is likely why he was appointed Ambassador to India. Seriously, if you look at photos of people living on the streets of Delhi and Los Angeles, you can’t tell the difference.
North and rural Cali doesn't. The state needs breaking in two so the sane Californians have representation. This is a call in quite a few states were millions are in thrall to loonies and their votes can never count.
This is a bit quandary for me. If we allow states to break up when parts of political differences, then why wouldn't we just eventually end up with like 1000 states? At some point you have to acknowledge you live in a state that doesn't hold your values. You can stay and either suck it up or try to make a difference. Or you can move somewhere that matches you and help make that place better.
I know not everyone can do that and it is an idealized view. At the same time, a state like CA isn't going to change purple or red anytime soon. So what's the difference in adding more people who are going to vote the way things are going to go anyway?
While individual citizens in California who are conservative may not have their views represented specifically in California, they certainly have them overrepresented in the Senate, so doesn't it even out? The 1.5 million residents of North and South Dakota have four senators while the 37 million resident of California have two. It seems conservative voters are very well represented overall, at least at the federal level.
"The ballot initiative, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, seeks to change Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014. It would toughen penalties for retail theft and require drug treatment for those charged with simple drug possession. "
Read it [proposed initiative] in its entirety; ask the tough questions...like how much will this cost and how/where is the funding allocated. A few more $500k-$1million per housing units? Another thousand or two new admins or support staffers=spread the wealth/"earn" a vote.
This ploy of making sound agreeable and support worthy is exactly how 47 and associated initiative passed. Remember, this the Democrats lead by Glad Hand Gav et. al.
I believe this was spearheaded by Kevin Kiley R Congressman from CA and backed by large retail stores: "A coalition backing a tough-on-crime statewide ballot initiative to toughen penalties for retail theft and some drug offenses on Thursday submitted more than 900,000 voter signatures backing the measure, a strong indicator that it may come before California voters in November.
The ballot initiative, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, seeks to change Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014. It would toughen penalties for retail theft and require drug treatment for those charged with simple drug possession. It was largely funded by corporate retailers including Target and Home Depot. To my knowledge it is not backed by Newsom, but is backed by the Mayors of SF and San Jose.
In annus horribilis 2020, Garcetti (like Adam Schiff) switched his endorsement from the utterly competent L.A. County D.A. Jackie Lacey to the Soros-bankrolled incompetent George Gascon. India can keep him.
Think they will have to go to the university campuses, there is NOT much space left on the streets especially might I add, in the Blue Sanctuary cities.
Given Google’s deeply entrenched left wing biases, it seems highly unlikely that they will turn on a dime and tack to the center, focusing on business rather than the political biases of many of their liberal employees.
The week after Trump’s election in 2016, Google held an all hands meeting during which several top executives, including Pichai, spouted anti-Trump catechisms, bemoaned the triumph of hate, and vowed to “prevent this happening again”. A pack of woke billionaires, throwing a tantrum because an election didn’t go their way.
There is no evidence that anything has changed. In fact, many conservative and moderate employees have left or have been driven out, causing Google to become even more left wing. It came out in discovery during the James Damore lawsuit that Google’s head of HR wanted to hire only woke and nonwhite applicants, i.e. applicants who fit certain political and racial profiles.
The list of such corrupt corporations is long. It might be quicker to list those who, like Coinbase, resist political pressure.
Yeah I'm not convinced anything has changed at Google. I really think they put a stop to the employees protesting about Israel because those goons took over Sundar Pichai's office for 12 hours and he wanted his office back.
And their motto "Do the right thing" . . . don't even get me started. Everything they do from monopoly to massive invasion of privacy is not only wrong but objectively evil.
Rumor has it that Musk's X is going to offer email and search, which are two of Google's core products. X is also interested in offering more video content as per YouTube. Should be interesting to see what happens.
It's always good to have more options. Although options are already out there. The problem is people get trained using one system and they don't change unless they system becomes so outrageously intolerable and unusable, like the now obsolete Explorer. It doesn't even cost that much to pay for email services to maintain privacy, but people give everything up for Gmail because it's free, plus they don't want to have to tell every F&F and site they changed email address. There are other search engines out there now that are better. Google isn't even good anymore. Too many ads and the layout is now awful. Their algorithm hide search results too. But most people don't know and don't care. Some actually like it the algorithm knows what they want to shop and buy next. We're the reason for our own doom.
I pay for an alternative non-tracking service (Proton Mail and Proton VPN) but honestly Gmail is the best, so I keep using it. It's hard to switch. Google Maps is still state of the art, too. One of these days I'll cut over to Proton, though, which won't be all that hard since my mail goes to my domain name, not to "gmail dot com" etc. But most people do use the provider's domain name unfortunately.
Google has a long way to go to become an apolitical workplace focused on its business instead of left-wing politics. However, they took a step in the right direction in this instance, so give them credit for that.
I'll give them credit where credit's due. Unfortunately, the organization at this point is rotten to the core. They showed their cards in 2016; search for the Google all-hands meeting and you'll see, from Sergei Brin on down, they are hateful liberals. I don't see how they can ever really right that ship.
Well I think its good that coinbase avoided the mania and took the reasonable path. Business exist to provide services or create products. Perhaps if ones business had some super narrow niche, idk, hemp clothing sales? They could be very openly progressive and be okay. But any business trying appeal to a broad audience needs to behave and a reasonable manner and avoid alienating half of their potential customer base which political rhetoric. Anything else is just bad business.
On the other hand, Coinbase provides almost zero customer service. Try talking to a live person there. Good luck. American business has lost its way. Profits over performance at any cost. Pander to consumers, but forget about customer service of good products.
Reading the comments, I get the unmistakable feeling that we have turned the corner. Let's hope we can do the same with the institutions that impact every aspect of our lives. A bud says that all the Democrats and half the Republicans need to go, followed by a giant enema for all the three-letter agencies.
Do you remember Obama’s pathetic saying of “YES WE CAN” for his election campaign - well let’s hijack the slogan and get these sewer rats out of power NOW!!!!
It's reasonable that companies expect their people to work, and to do so without being disruptive.
But it is also reasonable that potential or actual employees consider the politics of their prospective or actual employers. I refuse to even interview with companies known for being "woke." No, Facebook/Meta, I won't work for a company wilfully complicit in manipulating elections.
I also refuse to work for the big defense companies, not because I'm a bleeding heart liberal but because those companies are fleecing Americans. Boeing is the poster child, but hardly the only one.
The son of a friend of mine recently withdrew from the hiring process at a government agency as he learned of the evil they were involved with.
As passionate as I can be. (Every "career" becomes "work" at some point.) What I'll say, though, is that my level of "passion" improves when I don't feel like a sell-out or a cog in an evil mechanism.
I'm a technical professional. We're expected to want to work for the highest paying employer, but I wrote what I wrote that the professional class might reconsider how WE feed into the kind of world that is being made. I've had numerous recruiters call me with opportunities. I always inquire about the industry, and, if they'll say, the identity of the client. They've been surprised when I said, in the face of really lucrative possibilities, "I'm not pursuing opportunities at [company] at the present time." If the recruiter isn't reading between the lines and asks why, I tell them -- gently, but clearly. Most of them seem to have an "Aha!" moment.
Let companies who are misbehaving work harder and pay more to find people to carry out their agendas.
Looking at it from a company perspective, I probably saved these companies tons of time and effort interviewing me, to say nothing of the risk of bringing an "unbeliever" into their work environments.
Here is an (if not THE) underlying problem that is not often-enough considered:
“But as it turns out, people have very different definitions of what is evil, and what is right.”
While a good handle on history tells one, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” it sure seems to me that we live in a time in which definitions of previously-commonly-understood words have become fluid. So instead of disagreeing simply about the best WAYS to accomplish good/defeat evil, we are at odds about the very essences of those things. Straying from judgement by solid philosophical principles (with broad application across people and cultures) toward judgement by the emotional fervor an injustice can arouse (with limited application to exceptional instances) seems to lead to our juvenilized cultural milieu.
Lev-ram writes, "But as it turns out, people have very different definitions of what is evil, and what is right. And in the case of Google, some of its employees seem to have put ideas like Zionism, or even capitalism, in that first bucket." First, wrong does not equal evil ,nor does right equal good. Just because someone disagrees with you, it does not make them a evil person. In fact, just because someone disagrees with you, it does not mean they are wrong. It may simply mean that you disagree. Second, relative truths/morality are at the center of this morass. If we all have "our own truths", there is no absolute truth. Without absolute truths, our foundation crumbles. People lose faith. Equality cannot be achieved. Decency and common sense are diminished. Independence is sacrificed. Read The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis for a well-written story of dangers of cultural relativism.
Companies started and supported the unprofessional work place. They hired sessions with DEI speakers who want to explore your inner beliefs and prejudices. The speakers encouraged yourself and coworkers to condemn the color of certain skins, religions, and "priveleges", etc. The meetings were not focused on building better widgets as a team but about soul shredding and a scolding similar to what one recieved from a parent.
After attending numerous sensitivity meetings, receiving pronoun statements, etc., it must have come as a shock to the Google employees that Google was to be a work place. Google and other institutions have stepped out of their lanes as an employer to become emotional support, social justice warrior, etc. and is it any wonder the employees got lost?
So refreshing to read stories like these. "Fake it until you make it", ribbons for all, let's build something based on righteousness, and too many others to list are just one side of the equation. Eventually business facts emerge. Profit resulting from science, fact based, free speech debate and educated, focused employees are the "real" solution. In the end, you can only fake it so long until reality sets in.
Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot all claimed they were trying save the world. When the private and public sectors march in lockstep with DIE/ESG and the 2020 COVID/BLM hystetia, that is the definition of leftist fascism. Brian Armstrong was brave for taking a stand, but many were silenced or lost their jobs.
Google is fully demoralized. They fired James Damore for writing a memo in support of intellectual diversity. His words from 2017 are just as prescient as Armstrong’s from 2020: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/james-damore-google-diversity-memo-gemini
You are exactly on target.
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And the riots at "elite universities" are simply leftist-fascist-students trying to impose their worldview upon the universities. And fellow students.
Well said Yuri.
The private and public sectors and media do indeed march in lockstep - the very definition of leftist fascism. At the moment I am distressed not to see the Gender Affirmation Complex (an outgrowth of DEI/ESG/CEI) take any kind of hit in the US - even after Michael Shellenberger's WPATH Files reporting and the Cass Review in the UK. Why do you suppose no Republican in Washington DC is even trying to do anything about this cult educational and medical scandal? The longer it goes on the more people will be hurt and the professional consequences for those involved will increase.
Also, I am a little tired of this constant assertion: "after George Floyd was killed". We can be upset the man is dead but also be aware that he died of a drug overdose.
You realize no one would be upset if the cause of death was a drug overdose that occurred absent the police presence. That's the irony.
The Left was looking for a poster child. They want "race"struggle instead of class struggle. Then, we had a summer of burning.
The Palestinians are the new poster children.
Here's a link for ya:
"OPINIONHow Soros Helped Hamas Go Mainstream
Everything is going according to plan."
https://vigilantnews.com/post/how-soros-helped-hamas-go-mainstream/
No surprises there...
I am a woman who worked for 40 years in tech. I had my share of disrespectful treatments by the bros, but each time I was able to put them in place because I was competent, not because I ran to HR to complain. As a matter of fact, the worst bosses I had were women. When Google fired Damore, I was furious because Damore was right. Women do think and work differently. I don't think it makes us worse engineers, but it is that real diversity of mindset that DEI morons are so afraid of.
This memo and the introduction to your site should be REQUIRED reading for all Americans and especially for the UNAWAKENED WOKES we all know.
Funny, as yesterday I was using the slow boiling of a frog to explain to my wife what the Dems were doing to the Americans and especially to the Jews.
I was attempting to explain to her a major reason why Jews were irrationally still Dems.
Better explored through your concept of intentional slow ideological subversion over many years with the intent of undermining a country.
Superbly described on your site, it resonates.
Yeah, nice try, no sale.
They're still left leaning clowns. Let's not forget the two leftists at Twitter who banned speech before Musk took over and ended their reign of terror. Google is among the worst offenders, toadying for the Biden Justice Department. And all the swooning for the grifters at BLM? Did these woke nitwits who run these corporations try to claw back the tributes that went into buying mansions for the fraudsters who ran that sting? No they did not. Our so--called "elites" who run these companies are mostly apparatchiks who were advanced to positions beyond their competence. Real leaders lead. They don't follow trends. And reward fraud and outright stupidity
Agreed.
Policy is personnel in Washington, same in companies. And since I doubt there are any James Damores left they'd have to sweep out the entire workforce to clean this mess up- starting at the top. Good luck with that.
Well said, Bruce. I switched to an iPhone after 13 years of Androids mostly because my wife had a free upgrade to upsize her phone due to farsightedness and I saw it as an opportunity to say FU to communist Google.
Sorry to Danimal, by buying an iPhone you have bought into a far worse Devil!
Well posted Bruce your description of the Apparatchiks was 💯 spot on!
Imagine being behind your company's public declaration of support for BLM, or a massive donation, only to realize you were totally conned. Instead of being mugged on the streets of NY, you were mugged by a brilliant grift. Coastal Elites weren't expecting that!
Of course, not a single mea culpa. Everyone is pretending like nothing happened. Hilarious.
Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end of the mass insanity called “woke” or “social justice” both of which are terms of racism, elitism, intolerance, and authoritarianism.
Given the spasm of Jew-hatred sweeping campuses, I would say that the worst is yet to come. Who could have imagined his country turning into 1930's Germany?
From the article:
“Employers don’t have to tolerate that kind of behavior anymore,” says the former Google employee, who asked to remain anonymous. “The idea of bringing your whole self to work has turned into bringing your professional self to work.”
In other words, capitalism works!
And I sincerely hope that NONE of these left-wing assholes ever work again. They can live on the streets of Los Angeles, Portland and New York... there's plenty of room. And if they can't find a place to sleep on the streets, I hear there are LOTS of new tents going up at elite universities all across the US...
Please don’t send them to Los Angeles. Our former Mayor Eric Garcetti allowed Los Angeles to become Delhi West which is likely why he was appointed Ambassador to India. Seriously, if you look at photos of people living on the streets of Delhi and Los Angeles, you can’t tell the difference.
Los Angeles deserves them. California deserves them. Blue cesspools need to keep the problems they created.
North and rural Cali doesn't. The state needs breaking in two so the sane Californians have representation. This is a call in quite a few states were millions are in thrall to loonies and their votes can never count.
The Democrats would never permit the red areas of blue-dominant states to break away from their control.
Sane Californians? Isn't Cal Poly - Humboldt in northern California AND in rural California?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-university-reveals-true-cost-anti-israel-mob-took-over-academic-buildings
There’s still a few of us “sane” ones left, Cleveland
This is a bit quandary for me. If we allow states to break up when parts of political differences, then why wouldn't we just eventually end up with like 1000 states? At some point you have to acknowledge you live in a state that doesn't hold your values. You can stay and either suck it up or try to make a difference. Or you can move somewhere that matches you and help make that place better.
I know not everyone can do that and it is an idealized view. At the same time, a state like CA isn't going to change purple or red anytime soon. So what's the difference in adding more people who are going to vote the way things are going to go anyway?
While individual citizens in California who are conservative may not have their views represented specifically in California, they certainly have them overrepresented in the Senate, so doesn't it even out? The 1.5 million residents of North and South Dakota have four senators while the 37 million resident of California have two. It seems conservative voters are very well represented overall, at least at the federal level.
Hopefully this will get on the ballot and pass:
"The ballot initiative, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, seeks to change Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014. It would toughen penalties for retail theft and require drug treatment for those charged with simple drug possession. "
Read it [proposed initiative] in its entirety; ask the tough questions...like how much will this cost and how/where is the funding allocated. A few more $500k-$1million per housing units? Another thousand or two new admins or support staffers=spread the wealth/"earn" a vote.
This ploy of making sound agreeable and support worthy is exactly how 47 and associated initiative passed. Remember, this the Democrats lead by Glad Hand Gav et. al.
I believe this was spearheaded by Kevin Kiley R Congressman from CA and backed by large retail stores: "A coalition backing a tough-on-crime statewide ballot initiative to toughen penalties for retail theft and some drug offenses on Thursday submitted more than 900,000 voter signatures backing the measure, a strong indicator that it may come before California voters in November.
The ballot initiative, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, seeks to change Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014. It would toughen penalties for retail theft and require drug treatment for those charged with simple drug possession. It was largely funded by corporate retailers including Target and Home Depot. To my knowledge it is not backed by Newsom, but is backed by the Mayors of SF and San Jose.
I think there is some confusion. See https://ballotpedia.org/California_Drug_and_Theft_Crime_Penalties_and_Treatment-Mandated_Felonies_Initiative_(2024)
DRK is referencing Prop 1 [https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/1/?ref=blog.freopp.org] and Yes it passed, barely [see https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Behavioral_Health_Services_Program_and_Bond_Measure_(March_2024)] ... $6.4 billion! Definitely NOT spearheaded by Kevin Riley
In annus horribilis 2020, Garcetti (like Adam Schiff) switched his endorsement from the utterly competent L.A. County D.A. Jackie Lacey to the Soros-bankrolled incompetent George Gascon. India can keep him.
Think they will have to go to the university campuses, there is NOT much space left on the streets especially might I add, in the Blue Sanctuary cities.
Given Google’s deeply entrenched left wing biases, it seems highly unlikely that they will turn on a dime and tack to the center, focusing on business rather than the political biases of many of their liberal employees.
The week after Trump’s election in 2016, Google held an all hands meeting during which several top executives, including Pichai, spouted anti-Trump catechisms, bemoaned the triumph of hate, and vowed to “prevent this happening again”. A pack of woke billionaires, throwing a tantrum because an election didn’t go their way.
There is no evidence that anything has changed. In fact, many conservative and moderate employees have left or have been driven out, causing Google to become even more left wing. It came out in discovery during the James Damore lawsuit that Google’s head of HR wanted to hire only woke and nonwhite applicants, i.e. applicants who fit certain political and racial profiles.
The list of such corrupt corporations is long. It might be quicker to list those who, like Coinbase, resist political pressure.
Yeah I'm not convinced anything has changed at Google. I really think they put a stop to the employees protesting about Israel because those goons took over Sundar Pichai's office for 12 hours and he wanted his office back.
And their motto "Do the right thing" . . . don't even get me started. Everything they do from monopoly to massive invasion of privacy is not only wrong but objectively evil.
Rumor has it that Musk's X is going to offer email and search, which are two of Google's core products. X is also interested in offering more video content as per YouTube. Should be interesting to see what happens.
It's always good to have more options. Although options are already out there. The problem is people get trained using one system and they don't change unless they system becomes so outrageously intolerable and unusable, like the now obsolete Explorer. It doesn't even cost that much to pay for email services to maintain privacy, but people give everything up for Gmail because it's free, plus they don't want to have to tell every F&F and site they changed email address. There are other search engines out there now that are better. Google isn't even good anymore. Too many ads and the layout is now awful. Their algorithm hide search results too. But most people don't know and don't care. Some actually like it the algorithm knows what they want to shop and buy next. We're the reason for our own doom.
I pay for an alternative non-tracking service (Proton Mail and Proton VPN) but honestly Gmail is the best, so I keep using it. It's hard to switch. Google Maps is still state of the art, too. One of these days I'll cut over to Proton, though, which won't be all that hard since my mail goes to my domain name, not to "gmail dot com" etc. But most people do use the provider's domain name unfortunately.
Google has a long way to go to become an apolitical workplace focused on its business instead of left-wing politics. However, they took a step in the right direction in this instance, so give them credit for that.
I'll give them credit where credit's due. Unfortunately, the organization at this point is rotten to the core. They showed their cards in 2016; search for the Google all-hands meeting and you'll see, from Sergei Brin on down, they are hateful liberals. I don't see how they can ever really right that ship.
Well I think its good that coinbase avoided the mania and took the reasonable path. Business exist to provide services or create products. Perhaps if ones business had some super narrow niche, idk, hemp clothing sales? They could be very openly progressive and be okay. But any business trying appeal to a broad audience needs to behave and a reasonable manner and avoid alienating half of their potential customer base which political rhetoric. Anything else is just bad business.
Yes, adults do things like what Brian Armstrong did…not deaf to employees, but focusing on their goals.
On the other hand, Coinbase provides almost zero customer service. Try talking to a live person there. Good luck. American business has lost its way. Profits over performance at any cost. Pander to consumers, but forget about customer service of good products.
And the stock is a turd.
“What’s the point of having ‘fuck you’ money if you don’t ever say fuck you?”
Got to remember this one, truly a classic.
Classic I’d love to say f.ck you to Google,Facebook, Democrats etc without f.ck you money, if that’s in any way possible ...., wishful thinking.
A great quote from the series Billions. If you haven't seen it, you should. One of my Top 5 shows of all time. Great writing and acting.
Yeh, my biggest take away as well.
Reading the comments, I get the unmistakable feeling that we have turned the corner. Let's hope we can do the same with the institutions that impact every aspect of our lives. A bud says that all the Democrats and half the Republicans need to go, followed by a giant enema for all the three-letter agencies.
I s'pose we can always dream.
Do you remember Obama’s pathetic saying of “YES WE CAN” for his election campaign - well let’s hijack the slogan and get these sewer rats out of power NOW!!!!
It's reasonable that companies expect their people to work, and to do so without being disruptive.
But it is also reasonable that potential or actual employees consider the politics of their prospective or actual employers. I refuse to even interview with companies known for being "woke." No, Facebook/Meta, I won't work for a company wilfully complicit in manipulating elections.
I also refuse to work for the big defense companies, not because I'm a bleeding heart liberal but because those companies are fleecing Americans. Boeing is the poster child, but hardly the only one.
The son of a friend of mine recently withdrew from the hiring process at a government agency as he learned of the evil they were involved with.
This all seems completely reasonable to me.
Can I ask you do you have a job?
Yes, I do.
Thank God can I ask one more question please .... is in a position that you passionate about?
As passionate as I can be. (Every "career" becomes "work" at some point.) What I'll say, though, is that my level of "passion" improves when I don't feel like a sell-out or a cog in an evil mechanism.
I'm a technical professional. We're expected to want to work for the highest paying employer, but I wrote what I wrote that the professional class might reconsider how WE feed into the kind of world that is being made. I've had numerous recruiters call me with opportunities. I always inquire about the industry, and, if they'll say, the identity of the client. They've been surprised when I said, in the face of really lucrative possibilities, "I'm not pursuing opportunities at [company] at the present time." If the recruiter isn't reading between the lines and asks why, I tell them -- gently, but clearly. Most of them seem to have an "Aha!" moment.
Let companies who are misbehaving work harder and pay more to find people to carry out their agendas.
Looking at it from a company perspective, I probably saved these companies tons of time and effort interviewing me, to say nothing of the risk of bringing an "unbeliever" into their work environments.
“Musk buying Twitter also helped shape culture to a degree people haven’t fully internalized yet.”
Ya think?
Elon Musk to being blackmailed by advertisers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXmcq47hVpI
Here is an (if not THE) underlying problem that is not often-enough considered:
“But as it turns out, people have very different definitions of what is evil, and what is right.”
While a good handle on history tells one, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” it sure seems to me that we live in a time in which definitions of previously-commonly-understood words have become fluid. So instead of disagreeing simply about the best WAYS to accomplish good/defeat evil, we are at odds about the very essences of those things. Straying from judgement by solid philosophical principles (with broad application across people and cultures) toward judgement by the emotional fervor an injustice can arouse (with limited application to exceptional instances) seems to lead to our juvenilized cultural milieu.
Yeah, that's what I think, I think.
😂😂yeah I do to but I had to read the post a few times!
Lev-ram writes, "But as it turns out, people have very different definitions of what is evil, and what is right. And in the case of Google, some of its employees seem to have put ideas like Zionism, or even capitalism, in that first bucket." First, wrong does not equal evil ,nor does right equal good. Just because someone disagrees with you, it does not make them a evil person. In fact, just because someone disagrees with you, it does not mean they are wrong. It may simply mean that you disagree. Second, relative truths/morality are at the center of this morass. If we all have "our own truths", there is no absolute truth. Without absolute truths, our foundation crumbles. People lose faith. Equality cannot be achieved. Decency and common sense are diminished. Independence is sacrificed. Read The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis for a well-written story of dangers of cultural relativism.
Companies started and supported the unprofessional work place. They hired sessions with DEI speakers who want to explore your inner beliefs and prejudices. The speakers encouraged yourself and coworkers to condemn the color of certain skins, religions, and "priveleges", etc. The meetings were not focused on building better widgets as a team but about soul shredding and a scolding similar to what one recieved from a parent.
After attending numerous sensitivity meetings, receiving pronoun statements, etc., it must have come as a shock to the Google employees that Google was to be a work place. Google and other institutions have stepped out of their lanes as an employer to become emotional support, social justice warrior, etc. and is it any wonder the employees got lost?
As a former HR Director, I applaud these brave free thinkers! It is obvious what has happened to the professionals and collegiates who joined a cult.
So refreshing to read stories like these. "Fake it until you make it", ribbons for all, let's build something based on righteousness, and too many others to list are just one side of the equation. Eventually business facts emerge. Profit resulting from science, fact based, free speech debate and educated, focused employees are the "real" solution. In the end, you can only fake it so long until reality sets in.