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It's hard to understand why people care so much about someone's personal political opinions. This is especially prevalent when working in places like Seattle a
by wannacboatmovie 2y ago
It's hard to understand why people care so much about someone's personal political opinions.
This is especially prevalent when working in places like Seattle and SF. People ostracizing their coworkers because of wrongthink.
MDS like TDS is real. It's extremely toxic and it needs to stop. People's political beliefs are their own and connecting that to work is a recipe for disaster.
- Tronno 2y ago> It's hard to understand why people care so much about someone's personal political opinions. People care because he has power and money, which he uses to shape the world in alignment with those political opinions. The same is true of anyone else with power - Xi, Putin, Gates, Thiel, Zuck, and the countless others with influence over business and government. A lot of money is spent to analyze and alter their political opinions. What's hard for me to understand is why this isn't plainly obvious to you.
- nwienert 2y agoWe've had decades of absolute liberal control of tech companies but you don't see threads like this every time Google announces something. Some 25% of tech is conservative, it shouldn't be that weird that a few of the billionaires are too.
- unethical_ban 2y agoYou've never seen someone question the motives of the leaders of big tech on HN?
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoHe isn't a co-worker. He's a billionaire that can fund entire campaigns. It is a lot more like if my co-worker was really my boss, and he really cares about my political leanings during a performance review.. Thus I also care about his. "Metastable deexcitation spectroscopy (MDS) and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS)" I really don't know what you are talking about.
- slater 2y ago[flagged]
- zenerdiodes 2y ago[dead]
- squilliam 2y agoNo there isn't. This is just unsubstantiated democratic fan fiction. Please stop spamming this link.
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- meowkit 2y agoMusk and Trump Derangement Syndrome Is what the acronyms refer to. Its a meme for the obsession around them specifically. My two cents is that there are other billionaires doing significantly more harm than those two. They just keep quiet or own news media platforms.
- Teever 2y agoIs it so hard? See if you can try and steelman the argument as to why people care about the political opinions and actions of the world's richest man.
- unethical_ban 2y agoThe man in question personally has more wealth than many nations, co-opted one of the most popular American social media networks in the country and is a massive hypocrite when it comes to free speech. Musk isn't just some guy near your cubicle complaining about Mexican cooks.