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

Post by anjc » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

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This is completely normal in politics and commerce. And regardless, he was elected in a fair vote. The end. If you run another election now he'll win again.

US intelligence officials have evidence of Russian disinformation and interference [1]. This is not normal. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:ODNI_Stateme...

Post by grzm » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

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The only moral code here is fact: contrary to the administration's claims, the September 11th attacks did not originate in – or have a material connection to – these countries. Citing the September 11th attacks as a reason to restrict immigration from these countries does not follow logically, and therefore must be opposed on a factual basis. The claim is not true.

What's that have to do with Lyft? It doesn't matter how principled your opposition here is...boards have obligations, and this isn't one of them.

Post by pfarnsworth » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:35 PM UTC

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That's not what Leninism means tho (it's not "smash the state" as Bannon says, it's about having a vanguard party and control of political power by the working class).

I completely understand that. But it's a term he used for himself, and I think it's funny to semi-accurately (not in terms of actual definition but in terms of someone's self-description) label a member of a Republican administration as a Leninist. Though Bannon may be more accurate than he realizes about being a "Leninist" since he wants his faction to be the vanguard party with power derived from the white working…

Post by anjc » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

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What's that have to do with Lyft? It doesn't matter how principled your opposition here is...boards have obligations, and this isn't one of them.

It depends on the purpose of the company. Companies have purposes beyond simply increasing shareholder value: they have goals as to how they're going to run their business, which the board understands. I don't know what the details are in this case. But the argument that everything boils down to pure, unrestrained pursuit of profit is ultimately hollow and soulless and results in all manner of abuses.

Post by colordrops » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

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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?

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...