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Yep! And sure in the 1700's when kings ruled the world that was great! But in the 2000's when CEOs rule the world, we may need to think about extending free spe

• jmye 1y ago
  Why should you have the right to disrupt a company meeting? Do I have the unmitigated right to come into your sprint planning and scream at you? Does no one have the right to choose not to associate with you if you make yourself unpleasant to be around, or do we all just have to suffer the biggest fool, always and all the time? Why is your, or this engineer’s speech, more worth protecting than mine, my boss’s, or Nadella’s? So tired of this nonsense. I don’t want to hear about your shitty politics at work. If you don’t like what your company is doing, quit and do something else.
  • TheNewsIsHere 1y ago
    You are highlighting the fundamental tension at the center of this continuing issue. This isn’t unique to the genocide of Palestinians. This is happening repeatedly in multiple contexts across essentially all very large organizations. It is, I submit, a manifestation of collectivist actions. Usually that doesn’t intersect politics inside a business, but as more and more horrific things are being perpetrated or aided by the businesses that employ politically interested people, it’s happening more and more.
    • nh23423fefe 1y ago
      Ineffective loners screaming at CEOs accomplishes nothing. These are a bunch of mash potato throwers, traffic blockers, and paint can dumpers. These tantrums are garbage and the only defense is fake moralizing and weird obfuscated language like yours. Meanwhile plain-spoken people think this behavior sucks.