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Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by facetube »

gotchange wrote: post #78
facetube wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When someone casts peaceful protests against immigration policy at airports as "terror tied", I classify that as conspiratorial thinking [1]. I have no doubt a conspiracy is at work here, but IMO it is not of the type that Bannon espouses. 1: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/28/terror-ti...

They're referring to CAIR here and given Breitbart's journalistic integrity or the lack thereof, they went with that provocative headline to stir up their outrage-junkie audience.

And it is unacceptable. The US presidency and US intelligence community cannot be wielded as a blunt political instrument.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by danharaj »

scarmig wrote: post #53
inverse_pi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it. How about other people that were not part of the protest and were trying to get home/get to the airport? How about the Uber drivers trying to make a living? Just because they were not part of your protest you'll give them hate?

Question: during the Civil Rights movement, people of all sorts disrupted white people just trying to eat breakfast; just trying to get an education; just trying to get to work. Is that "giving them hate"? Should MLK have made fastidiously sure to go to cordoned off areas where no one would have been inconvenienced in the slightest?

All protests should be relegated to government sanctioned free speech zones /s

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by anjc »

facetube wrote: post #7

Donald Trump is being powered by conspiracy theorist Steve Bannon, the "Breitbart News" head and board member of Cambridge Analytica, an analytics firm that used psychological profiling to cynically exploit the American electorate. Despite his inexperience and stated desire to "blow things up", he was appointed to an influential national security position, over the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1]. This is an existential th…

This is a bizarre and inflammatory conspiracy theory in itself.

A politician using an analytics firm that uses psychological profiling...welcome to the 20th century.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by gotchange »

akuma73 wrote: post #47
staticassertion wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily see this as marketing. I'm certainly more inclined to use their services now.

What about the other half of the country?

Well, if other ride-share companies follow suit, Trump supporters will soon have no other choices through which to make a political statement.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by matt4077 »

colordrops wrote: post #37
facetube wrote: post #7

Donald Trump is being powered by conspiracy theorist Steve Bannon, the "Breitbart News" head and board member of Cambridge Analytica, an analytics firm that used psychological profiling to cynically exploit the American electorate. Despite his inexperience and stated desire to "blow things up", he was appointed to an influential national security position, over the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1]. This is an existential th…

Please don't use the phrase "conspiracy theorist" as a term of disparagement or to indicate a particular bias. There are many that investigate conspiracies who have the opposite views of Bannon and are very skeptical and scientific. You are giving a tool to the unscrupulous to bury conversations by labeling their opponents "conspiracy theorists." Would you say Edward Snowden is in the same bucket at Bannon?

I like how you're saying that Bannon is giving conspiracy theorists a bad name :)

(And Snowden is more accurately called a 'whistleblower' or maybe, if you want to get creative, a 'conspiracy practitioner'

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by emilsedgh »

rashkov wrote: post #30
stephancoral wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything uber does is about money and they aren't afraid to flout the law / custom and "disrupt". They swooped in during a strike. They are scabs. They are obviously doing it to grab money. Their CEO is buddy buddy with Trump.

How much money can they make during a 1 hour strike? Lowering their prices seems like the opposite of making money to me

This is not about how much money they can make.

This is about showing their support to the government, their allies.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by grzm »

tomjen3 wrote: post #86
asktomsk wrote: post #35

Political shit like this should not be allowed here.

Agreed. This is a tech forum and this doesn't belong here, just like whatever Googles CEO had for breakfast doesn't belong here.

If you feel the submission is inappropriate, please flag it and move on.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by koolba »

blhack wrote: post #63
akuma73 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the other half of the country?

Every Trump supporter I know is embarrassed by the travel ban. So this doesn't quite effect "half of the country".

> Every Trump supporter I know is embarrassed by the travel ban. So this doesn't quite effect "half of the country".

I'm going to guess that your anecdata set size is relatively small.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by GFK_of_xmaspast »

benchaney wrote: post #58
Pfhreak wrote: post #2

Uber undermining the taxi strike [1] yesterday was pretty visible -- at least in my social circle here in Seattle -- and when Lyft made this announcement we all deleted our Uber accounts. Will that have a material impact on anyone's bottom line? Who knows, but I'd love to see the graphs for new account signups/account deletions. [1] Taxis were not servicing JFK in support of those who were being detained there.

So protesters are entitled to hold people hostage for an arbitrary amount of time, just because they are unhappy? Give me a break.

Freedom of assembly is a hell of a thing.

Re: Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

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Post by rapsey »

ajamesm wrote: post #15
koolba wrote: post #6

Why is a company that is losing money and having what's left of their lunch taken by a gorilla of a competitor (Uber) throwing away $1M like this? If I were an investor in Lyft I'd sue them.

$1M just got them the best PR campaign they could have hoped for.

By pissing off half the country?
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