Never understood people who work for an employer with whom they don't agree.
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Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
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Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
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Freedom on full display. Employees free to break their employment contract. Employer free to fire them. Let me guess, you want power to control what people and companies can or can not do? I don’t trust you enough to put you in control of that.
You would be right if they were fired, but they were arrested by the state. Not so free to protest.
Well there are limits. You can’t for example protest in my living room or by breaking into the Capitol building. Trespassing can be a form of protest but it’s still illegal.
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Yes... That's what protest looks like.
No, you can't just occupy private property as a protest. Hence why they were arrested.
You certainly can occupy private property as a protest, if you get arrested afterwards is immaterial to the fact that you can indeed do the as a protest.
People throw pies at politicians faces as a protest and they're often arrested afterwards for assault, but it doesn't mean they can't do it.
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Your whole self isn't all of your behaviors. It doesn't mean proselytize your religion at work. It doesn't mean engage in sexual activity at work. It doesn't mean spend 1/3 of your time at work asleep. A person can be authentic without being inappropriate.
> A person can be authentic without being inappropriate. In principle, yes. But when your work collides with your values, that stops being the case.
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As can be seen here, they did punish these protesters. And the House has just passed a resolution saying that the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is antisemitic. Many states, such as Texas, require written commitments from all state employees that they will not engage in the BDS movement or other forms of protest against Israel. How are these not a punishment for deviance from the desired p…
It's a new Christian fundamentalism-backed ideological McCarthyism to erase the entire left with a new loyalist pledge... sort of like what totalitarian and communism regimes have required. "Separation of church and state be damned, you must believe X or you are un-American and forbidden to hold a job" is their modus operandi.
Are you living in America? If so, how did you miss the 50% of the population that is the exact opposite of "new Christian fundamentalism-backed ideological McCarthyism"????
Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
#86I have no idea what happened but I always love it when people get cross over improper behaviour such as grey hat work or “sitting protests” at the worlds largest corp … on a website called hackernews
I am with you but unfortunately the sense of "hacker" here is closer to what it is in "hackaton".
A "hackaton" is an event where ivy league students compete to write sloppy code using APIs from different corporations. They also get branded t-shirts and free redbull (paid by said corporations).
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#87> Anti-Semitism appears to be rampant throughout Google’s workforce.
If someone would have told me 5 years ago that in just a few years, Google employees would be accused of anti-semitism, or any -ism, really, I would have never believed it. They were on the frontlines "punching nazis" and fighting rising fascism here in US, and here they are, being accused of anti-semitism, themselves.
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It isn't nice to block the doorway It isn't nice to go to jail There are nicer ways to do it But the nice ways always fail - Malvina Reynolds, "It Isn't Nice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lWkV2QpgQo
It doesn’t matter. The law is what it is. Breaking the law to get your way isn’t the right way to get things done. Otherwise we’d all be justified in doing it whenever we don’t like something and there would be no point in laws anymore. In a democracy, you can participate in our system and vote to have it changed, though. And that’s the effective way to address these issues.
If laws were the only truth there would be no justice in this world, as proven multiple times in history.
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#89Regardless of your opinion of the Daily Wire, they have an in-depth article with details that the Washington Post omitted. With hyperlinks to each source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-occupy-offic...
doesn't matter how "in-depth" it is, it's still the daily wire and not trustworthy
All sources have at least a small element of truth to them... it's better to get as many sides as you can and come up with your own conclusion, rather than completely block off certain opinions.
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That isn't at all what the article says. Every liberal democracy subscribes to the idea of civilian control of the military, so the distinction between civilian leadership and the military they oversee isn't a new or foreign concept. Why would you assume MoD use = IDF use? Do you also assume everything the DoD contracts for is used by the U.S. Army?
> Do you also assume everything the DoD contracts for is used by the U.S. Army? tbh, I would expect most people assume that.
Oof. The DoD proper (as in the OSD and OUSDs) is a sprawling bureaucracy. And frankly it sure would be nice to be as well-funded as they are.