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I’m bitter about FAANG’s tax avoidance as much as the next guy, but these people are also under the protection of our laws. No one deserves to be shot at for wo
by IntronExon 9y ago
I’m bitter about FAANG’s tax avoidance as much as the next guy, but these people are also under the protection of our laws. No one deserves to be shot at for working with Google; shouted at maybe, but never shot at. As a country we can’t accept that, and in any case, everyone on those busses does pay taxes.
- jacknews 9y agoI agree, a crime is crime regardless, but it raises a question nonetheless. Additionally, if I as an individual were to go to the police claiming something similar I suspect they would tell me to claim on insurance, and to try to make myself less of a target by not advertising my identity. I doubt they'd be running fake cars on my commute to try and catch the perp. Maybe I'm wrong, but the police seem to be going the extra mile (quite literally) in this case.
- ameliaquining 9y agoI think that's because it's been affecting a fairly large number of people (compared to the number of perpetrators) over a fairly long period of time. I think it's also because it's public enough that the police are worried about the message that would be sent if they didn't seriously try to stop it.
- ImSkeptical 9y agoSuppose the shooter was shooting at public buses though. Would you still expect nothing to happen? The key difference between your car and a bus is that with the bus the safety of thirty people is involved, plus the willingness of many more people to use buses which the city has an interest in. Your car is you and your family's safety which is a fraction of the importance.
- closeparen 9y ago911 calls for i.e. kids throwing rocks from overpasses are taken very seriously.
- topspin 9y agoThis is probably more about the BB gun(s) than anything else. These aren't deadly weapons, but police are acutely sensitive to any form of gun, deadly or otherwise, and they've got a case here where someone is regularly taking shots at these buses.
- wavefunction 9y agoThere was a dumb kid my age at a high-school party who thought he'd... I don't know what he thought. But he shot a BB gun and it hit a girl in her eye, destroying the function in that organ and lodging itself in her brain, forcing her to have to relearn how to read and speak and other functions people take for granted. I say this because even a BB gun can hurt someone in ways that are unanticipated. Just like supporting an economic regime that hurts people in unanticipated ways. Better to be kind and generous to everyone so we can all flourish.
- anxrn 9y agoWhy do Google employees deserve to be shouted at?
- candiodari 9y agohttps://www.fastcompany.com/3051574/has-the-tech-industry-made-san-francisco-unlivable-for-everyone-else https://www.fastcompany.com/3051574/has-the-tech-industry-ma... Just Google it.
- IntronExon 9y agoI hoped that my wording wasn’t a ringing endorsement of shouting at Googlers. I was saying that protests are fine, shootings are not.