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Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them? The same agency, ICE, does LOADS of good work, protecting America and it's citizen

Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them? The same agency, ICE, does LOADS of good work, protecting America and it's citizens. Much like Microsoft (or any company)- that offers useful, widely deployed products. Supporting GitHub/MSFT or doing business with them doesn't have to come with an implied liking of ICE. Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws

staticautomatic 8y ago
What good work is that, exactly?
- taakd 8y ago
  Imprisoning US Citizens at random and trying their hardest to deport them seems to be a critical job of ICE. https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deport...
nollbit 8y ago
”Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them?” If a company implicitly assists in putting little children in camps, then yes, it’s ok to “punish” them by not giving them your business. “Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws” Similarly, if my in-laws were racists and my wife didn’t think that there were anything wrong with that, then yes, divorce would be an option.
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- chrisco255 8y ago
  Except they didn't. What's the more likely story: that Microsoft entered a multi-year contract with the US government and policies around the border recently changed or that Microsoft was complicit in US government policy and therefore responsible for all of their actions by association? Such a flat way of looking at the three dimensional, shades-of-grey world we live in...
perfmode 8y ago
vote with your wallet. isn’t that a property of free market capitalism that people promote?
- FearOfReprisal 8y ago
  America isn't based on free-market capitalism, it's cronyism at it's worse. Take Kansas, for example. Israel buys a lot of weapons from us, and they commit war crimes against Arabs for us, so in thanks Kansas has made it illegal to boycott Israel. Yet I cannot legally buy a musical instrument from Iran without fear of going to jail for violating federal sanctions.

staticautomatic 8y ago

What good work is that, exactly?

taakd 8y ago
Imprisoning US Citizens at random and trying their hardest to deport them seems to be a critical job of ICE. https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deport...

nollbit 8y ago

”Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them?” If a company implicitly assists in putting little children in camps, then yes, it’s ok to “punish” them by not giving them your business. “Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws” Similarly, if my in-laws were racists and my wife didn’t think that there were anything wrong with that, then yes, divorce would be an option.

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chrisco255 8y ago
Except they didn't. What's the more likely story: that Microsoft entered a multi-year contract with the US government and policies around the border recently changed or that Microsoft was complicit in US government policy and therefore responsible for all of their actions by association? Such a flat way of looking at the three dimensional, shades-of-grey world we live in...

perfmode 8y ago

vote with your wallet. isn’t that a property of free market capitalism that people promote?

FearOfReprisal 8y ago
America isn't based on free-market capitalism, it's cronyism at it's worse. Take Kansas, for example. Israel buys a lot of weapons from us, and they commit war crimes against Arabs for us, so in thanks Kansas has made it illegal to boycott Israel. Yet I cannot legally buy a musical instrument from Iran without fear of going to jail for violating federal sanctions.