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The GM CEO had presided over a time when GM got into such bad shape they needed a government bailout, and had to come back asking for even more government money
by sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
The GM CEO had presided over a time when GM got into such bad shape they needed a government bailout, and had to come back asking for even more government money.
The Wells Fargo CEO presided over a major scandal involving customers being signed up for services they never agreed to.
What has the Intel CEO presided over during his short tenure that measures up to those?
- tptacek 1y agoVastly increased attention on semiconductor companies as national security assets coupled with fairly extensive business relationships with companies controlled by America's chief geopolitical rival.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoOh, so not the same kind of thing at all then...
- tptacek 1y agoYou'll notice that none of the examples on this thread are the same things.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoYeah, it seems like a lot of hot air to prop up a false equivalency.
- tptacek 1y agoI suggest not asking questions you don't want the answers to.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoI suggest not normalizing Trump's behaviors by creating false equivalencies.
- tptacek 1y agoI'm interested in what's actually happening, not how it feeds the narrative about Trump. We saw the same thing yesterday with a dozen people on HN het up about how the Library of Congress Annotated Constitution had removed Habeas from its online copy of the Constitution (along with the Navy, letters of marque and reprisal, and the No Favored Ports clause) and people said the same thing there: stop claiming this was just a website fuckup and normalizing Trump!
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoYes, what actually happened is important. In that Constitution story, a government website that has the Constitution's text was updated in a peculiar way. It could be interpreted as having been related to habeas corpus rights, as that was in the middle of the removal. It could also be interpreted as unintentional, as the deletion started in the middle of Article I Section 8. You'd think a targeted deletion wouldn't include so much unrelated text. Then again, you could say that it's just an incompetently done targeted deletion. It's debatable! Maybe it was intentional and maybe the order came from the top. Or maybe it was just a run of the mill tech SNAFU. In this situation, Trump, on Trump's social media platform, posted that he wants this CEO to resign. That's not debatable, it's verifiable fact. It happened. We know the man at the top is saying this. So yeah, stop with the false equivalencies and pay attention to what's actually happening.
- tptacek 1y agoJust so we're clear that you apparently still think it's possible that an order came down from the top to delete Congress's authorization to form a Navy from the Library of Congress's online annotated Constitution, which isn't even in the first SERP for me on Google for "online constitution", but I guess you've gotta start somewhere.
- antonvs 1y agoPeople are interested in valid answers, not gaslighting.