Would love to see an overlay of their political support for the extremists in power vs. now having to potentially pay the bill for supporting them. Target was cool walking back it’s LGBTQ public alignment when it became unpopular, where did they think racist, violent authoritarianism was going to go? “Uhhh not this far, this is like scary…to our future profits”

Fuck these companies.

He should dress as an ICU nurse

Obama had the chance to appoint a SC justice and the right made a huge stink about him doing it in the last few months of his presidency after Trump was set to take over. Instead of doing it and understanding the significance, he/the Dems didn’t push and let Trump appoint Cavenough. Meanwhile Trump appointed all kinds of people to no resistance in the waning months of his first term. Curious that, almost like they want it both ways.

That January 6th outcome and no action taken will historically be remembered as Chamberlain attempting to sate Adolf.

“concerning”

“Questionable”

“Debatable”

“Some have described”

The euphemisms for illegal, violent, deadly, thieving, criminal, murderous, bigoted, nepotistic and lying need to stop.

More moderated words to fight extremism. The obama presidency, ironically, was the fulcrum on which the country continued into extremism by Obama wasting 8 years of energy and time–including 2 years of supermajority in the senate–instead of responding to the increasing threat of the tea party and normalized extremist right wing positions and policy with matching progressive policy delivered. ACA was the only significant accomplishment and it was watered down and written by insurers, which meant it didn’t fix affordability so made it easy to demonize as failed.

We kept Guantanamo open, took years to get out of Afghanistan, didn’t roll back the fascist surveillance state put into effect by The Patriot Act, didn’t move against monopolies, didn’t raise the fucking minimum wage…

Obama’s moderation with the true chance to set a different course was what helps trump and extremists after that. His naivete is as much to blame as anything for current state.

When you’ve either painted or allowed yourself to be painted yourself into a corner of powerlessness. Better to lean into letter writing, strongly-worded condemnations and “calls for” the thing you should have prevented in the first place, than actually doing something.

Confederate States of America also.

I think it’s due to historic risk management - even 50 years ago Germany was far from settled and secured compared to the US economically or politically. Many other countries were similar and didn’t take seriously the seismic risk changes of the past few decades. Now they are.

Cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face. Standard genius stuff. If they were only hurting their own faces no one would care who they voted for. Testament to pride and ego how far people are willing to go to ignore reality or not course correct a past mistake.

It will be interesting to see the line Europe takes with India re:their dealings with Russia, this was a lever the US pressed on to get India to restrict oil imports from Russia, presumably the EU has even more at stake in kneecapping Russia’s income sources.

Love the apologetics by haveibeenpwned “to be fair they’re also dealing with …” some other related criminal investigation, etc.

If you can’t appropriately manage your risk, and your response, that doesn’t mean the regulations and disclosure requirements should shift, it means, just like your shit security practices that allowed the breach in the first place, your IT team is inappropriately and illegally under-resourced to responsibly and compliantly follow law. They should pay significant penalties for failing to promptly disclose, and if due to insufficient staffing should be required to fix as condition of settlement.

Well the world is waiting for the condemnation and outpouring of support from all those rabid free speech and “over my dead body” 2nd amendment right wingers to step forward…

Curiously quiet now? So it’s only an amendment that you want to protect your team and that’s when it matters? Ahh, then you don’t support the constitution nor this country.

He gone.

X factor.

Also, who wants to alpha or beta test products? I’ll take the finished iterations, thank you.

You’re going to get kicked out of the stalker-Stasi club with that kind of talk. Or just out in a black bag and murdered.

Anyway, let’s talk about sports and reality tv!

Been waiting a year for this to happen.

If Europe didn’t get the wakeup call, it’s now or never for sovereignty and maintaining the semblance of rule of law, and economy.

I got a pop-up to create a free account to continue reading, first time I’ve seen that on a shared gift article, is that just me or new tracking?

The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.

People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.

Microsoft testified they have no way to prevent the US government from accessing European data that should be protected by gdpr if requested/subpoenaed by the US government.

Expect the same from Amazon.