Fear and Reprisals in The United States

Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 5 months ago to Politics
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Since Brendan Eich's ouster, he has tweeted only three times.

The last tweet contains a cryptic message which is understandable to those who know *nix shell programming, which I do.

He is saying that Mozilla is treating him as if he funded a group which was advocating racial re-segregation.
(Which, as an aside, would still be his right, even if most would, I would say justifiably, disagree with it.)

He ends his tweet with "is a f-ing scary place right now."

*THIS* is our United States under this Ruling Class: an IT *genius*, an ex-CEO, an *American Citizen*... living in fear, *fear*.

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Isn't this just the price of public equity funding? I don't know anything about Mozilla. I agree public equity creates problems. It also is a good way to get a lot of funding. It seems to create this notion that some Ruling Class is in charge. It's the same stuff the OWS people were claiming.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    db infamously removed a roast from the oven one time and left a family gathering where a particularly heated debate with personal attacks against him were occurring. He was preparing the meal. That particular inlaw is no longer an inlaw...so...
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    CG, a little background.
    Eich was not just hired, he was a co-founder of Mozilla.
    He was there for years.
    He invented JavaScript which revolutionized the web by enabling dynamic content in web pages.
    It was his contributions to Mozilla which made it the heavy hitter it was.

    And then he was promoted to CEO... and two weeks later he was purged because the Ruling Class needed the scalp of an infidel.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You seem to imply what happened there is simply a agree to disagree and move on. The man has been ostracized from the company he developed and forced to resign because a small group got their panties in a twist and threw a tantrum alleging untrue accusations of gay bashing. In fact the company he co founded has an excellent reputation in that regard. However since the group does not like this man's politics their goal was to professionally destroy him.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. I haven't followed it. Your comments, though, suggest what little I gleaned from a news story here and there was correct.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ok you are commenting on a big story that you haven 't researched any facts. There 's several threads on this, major tech players have weighed in, there 's lots of press. You 're looking kinda out of the loop cg. Your comments lack up to speed.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's scary that people might not use me b/c of past political contributions. There are countless potential clients. I'm always amazed at how even in mid-sized area I keep finding new people making electronics.

    I'm not keen to work with people who don't even support equal marriage rights. Bigots probably aren't keen to work with me. That's okay. There's a huge market of buyers and sellers out there, all with different desires.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe I don't know what happened. I thought they just fired someone for some past political contribution. Wasn't the contribution for some anti marriage rights cause? I wouldn't be keen to work with them either, but I wouldn't let it in the way of business. The weirdest part about it was they fired him for a past contribution just days after hiring him.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    what if they said you weren't qualified to be the owner of the fruits of your labor? would that be a little scary? cuz that is what happened. big stakes. not little. scary BIG
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago
    The same people who want to tell Mozilla how to run its organization probably want to tell me and my wife how to run our tiny shops. I wish they'd just go and find clients they like working with instead of complaining. I don't want to work with every client. There are polite ways of saying the project isn't working. I've been on receiving side once or twice. It's really not that scary.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi!
    So, for food -
    Dottie's Diner makes great donuts.
    DiPalma's is good for pizza.
    The El Camion taco truck is slammin'.
    ...
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    O. thanks. I thought so. I just wondered if there was some secret embedded call to action that I somehow wasn't activated efficiently for. I walk around half cocked ;)
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The last tweet which Brendan Eich made says either that Mozilla "is a f-ing scary place right now." or that he is in "a f-ing scary place right now."
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