How did the topic of Khashoggi even come up?
Pretty sure the reason he was killed was some internal Saudi stuff.
Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
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#42A prototype self-driving car runs over a person due to negligence on the part of the test operator who was supposed to prevent it and failures on the part of the team who created the vehicle. It was not negligence or failures that sent killers to an embassy before Mr. Kashoggi was scheduled to arrive, strangled him, cut him up into pieces, sent out a body double as a distraction, disposed of the evidence, and lied ab…
It reeks of "no real person involved." Just an inconvenient abstraction to them.
Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
#43Uber fucked over all employees who joined after ~2014. They treat their drivers like slaves and if they didn't, they'd probably go out of business. Is this really a surprise? Fuck this company..
How did they fuck over those who joined after 2014?
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#45I feel like I should stop working in tech and pursue a more profitable career as a common sense advisor to CEOs and Professional Athletes.
Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
#46Wow, just to restate this conversation in a different way: the ceo of a major company would rather remind the world of the time their car _killed_ someone then condemn a murder by one of his investors. Good on the journalist for asking tough questions and not letting him weasel out.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
I feel that quote describes a lot of the current issues in Silicon Valley.
Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
#47At least this is in the article too: After the interview aired, the Uber head tried to disassociate himself from it, saying he had misspoken. “I said something in the moment that I do not believe,” Khosrowshahi said in a statement Monday. “When it comes to Jamal Khashoggi, his murder was reprehensible and should not be forgotten or excused.”
Boy, he sure committed a verbal Khashoggi murder there.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only Silicon Valley. I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here, but in any case they are deeply in the Saudis' pockets as well, same as with any other administration that came before. To paint the SA regime and the US leadership to be somehow in opposition to one another doesn't really make sense. The cold hard fact is that they need each other and act accordingly.
> I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here SV CEOs and "personalities" refuse to sit on panels or visit the White House because they hate Trump and his administration. But they'll take money from Saudi Arabia. It's very hard to understand.
Thank you for clearing that up, I think I misunderstood your original comment to mean that the Saudis and the US administration are opposites.
I think you're right that there is some hypocrisy involved when CEOs publicly denounce unpopular politics only to support deplorable practices as soon as money is involved.
Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
#49Freudian slips have better be avoided. I would like to think he's not such a horrible person, though.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
#50A prototype self-driving car runs over a person due to negligence on the part of the test operator who was supposed to prevent it and failures on the part of the team who created the vehicle. It was not negligence or failures that sent killers to an embassy before Mr. Kashoggi was scheduled to arrive, strangled him, cut him up into pieces, sent out a body double as a distraction, disposed of the evidence, and lied ab…
It reeks of "no real person involved." Just an inconvenient abstraction to them.
The NRPI expression is something I first heard about on the HBO show Succession. Does that phrase have a history of use before that show? If I google it, I only come up with hits for the tv show.