I've slowly been coming to the conclusion they have as well. I have to live in Trumps America and while I will fight him for everything he's done and volunteer my time and effort to get him and his party out of power, I'm not going to stop living. I cannot wish for the system to cripple itself. In fact I hope he succeeds in making life better for all Americans, although I have little belief he is in fact capable of this. Living in the south I am surrounded by Trump voters and I'm not going to isolate myself from them. I made that mistake and he won.
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Silicon Valley leaders U-turn on Donald Trump
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Vicetrailia
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This is them smelling blood as every corporation is.
Because he's an immoral prick who needs to be stopped.
Leviathan22_ca
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Led_Zeppelin
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Money rules, maybe people will wake up and realize that corporations aren't their friends.
The corporate tax situation in this country does need to be addressed though. We have ridiculously high corporate taxes compared to basically any developed economy, but we pass out so many corporate tax breaks and have so many loopholes we get basically no revenue from them.
It's a situation that gives the government the power to pick winners and losers based off who they give tax breaks and encourages graft and corruption to receive those tax breaks.
NullPointer
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The time to stop Trump from becoming president has passed.
So we won't be stopping him or the Republicans altogether, but instead tackling issue by issue as they start to emerge and become more concrete. Trump's policy prescriptions were all over the place during the campaign, and often contradictory, so there is the possibility of mitigating or helping to shape policy through engagement. If or when that fails that's when you'll see some organized opposition, and organized opposition with a particular end goal in mind.
So we won't be stopping him or the Republicans altogether, but instead tackling issue by issue as they start to emerge and become more concrete. Trump's policy prescriptions were all over the place during the campaign, and often contradictory, so there is the possibility of mitigating or helping to shape policy through engagement. If or when that fails that's when you'll see some organized opposition, and organized opposition with a particular end goal in mind.
Needs to be stopped? He's won the democratic process. The cornerstone of any free country. He should be president. He's chosen by the people. You can't just invalidate someone as president just because you don't agree with him. That is not how democracy works.
I agreed with you up until you wrote this. When you're running a public business, say nice shit if you want. I don't expect Facebook the company to be political. But if you're just an average voter, fuck Trump. You don't have to respect him even slightly. He's an asshole, misogynist, bigot. His party is the epitome of smiling to your face while stabbing people in the back, except the only time they'll smile is if no cameras are in the room. The other 99% of the time they'll stab you to your face. He's the epicenter of that party. There's no reason to be cordial to them anymore. They've surrendered their rights to cordial speaking when they threw basic human rights for other people under the rug because "its an election!". They're human scumm.
I'm sure many of the people who vote for them are just misguided (IMO) really nice kinda people. Maybe a few of them can be reasoned with. But most just keep electing human piss to office. Its time to stop trying to be bigger, nice, or even work with them. On anything. They thrive on people forgetting what they said 5 minutes ago. They build entire governing plans around knowing that you'll be a sucker who lets them fuck you in order to get the tiniest consolation prize and then they'll refuse to even give that in the end. Fuck them. Fuck Trump.
I don't understand what the problem is?
Trump is steering the boat now. We should want him to do a good job and cooperate with him so that our boat doesn't sink.
I'm not saying he's not a racist bigot who has mobilized other racist bigots, but antagonizing our situation doesn't help anyone.
Trump is steering the boat now. We should want him to do a good job and cooperate with him so that our boat doesn't sink.
I'm not saying he's not a racist bigot who has mobilized other racist bigots, but antagonizing our situation doesn't help anyone.
You do need to lobby and protest when he's trying to pass something you don't agree with though, or is incompatible with the principles of this country or like morality.
They should have? Why? This is an arbitrary imposition that makes no sense. They absolutely don't need to do that. It's good that America just calms down and tried to unite a bit, but judging by this thread, shit is even worse than I thought. Stop saying I employ selective reading just because I don't agree with you when it comes to these companies' responsibility when it comes to reiterating what they think about Trump, especially when the election is over, and your next president is chosen.
Sirpopopop
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I'm not so sure I would feel the same way about Donald Trump.
If I were in their position I would be backpedaling on tons of shit now.
Well, he's not trying to pass anything right now, which is why it makes no sense to say this now.
DontBeThatGuy
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lol, tell that to the Tea Party.
ZackieChan
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There's literally no other choice. The guy is president. That's not changing. So you gotta make do and do your best to make the world a better place within those bounds.
Or post hot takes about how all they care about is money, have no principles, etc. I'm sure that'll get us far.
airmangataosenai
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This feels like the classic example of people reading the incendiary headline and not the actual text. What Zuckerberg said is fine.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/09/w...mp-mean-for-silicon-valley-nothing-very-good/
They are still screwed though.
They are still screwed though.
EatinOlives
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I will.
Both will be frigging easy though, considering i don't use either one. But i will tell others to do this too.
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Not hopeful about the results though.
Bruce Springsteen
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Not surprised, they weren't looking to make enemies with the president of the united states, it's a lot easier to attack a nominee which they though had no shot in hell at winning
Audioboxer
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"We already hardly pay taxes thanks to legal tax evasion but boys, Trump might give us even more cuts!"
UltraGunner
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What a shock, a haven for Rich White People continues to be Rich White People based.
I mean yeah, I'm already cutting down my use of Amazon down to next to nil other than financial necessity, due to their general treatment of workers (I have a personal stake in this action), and I'm gradually pulling out of the Facebook ecosystem though right now I have too many contacts that are only on FB to drop it entirely, so...yeah, I am heading in that direction.
Well I would like to know who hasn't changed their tune or doubled down like Grubhub CEO.
Agreed. They showed just as much decorum as President Trump showed Obama when he won the election within the same rules.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/06/trump-reacts-to-election/#ptmOlCGDakqb
Or maybe they have a better judge of the difference in character between a President Trump and President Obama.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Wondering why Palmer was not fired? Now you know. Everyone's for it without openly being for it.
I mean, that's cool and all. How about Netflix? They use Amazon Web Services for part of their cloud services.
Or any of these other companies: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/
You'd be indirectly lining Jeff Bezo's pockets.
When i tried Netflix earlier this year, i determined it was utter shit, poor image quality and lack of native subtitle system with extensive options, among other things. Didn't pay for after the trial period.
Since i'm not American, most of the AWS stuff don't seem to be applicable here anyway. And/or i'm not using anything using those services. Or at least not using their web-services if i happen to have some product.
No need to make it a slippery slope. Eg having a D-link router (which i don't have) doesn't mean you use D-link web stuff which make use of Amazon Web Services.
Well i use neither right now, so it would require zero effort from me, tho im not one for boycotts.
I acknowledge that he will be my president, but I'm not planning on congratulating him.
Like it or not he's the President on January 20, it's not like they have much of a choice.
There is a very good chance that Republicans take a super majority in 2018 with 24 Democrats defending their seats, many in states that just went red this election.
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