Richard Bennett discusses the attack on Microsoft for ‘pulling’ support for a gay rights bill. What is really at play- according to Richard, the AFL-CIO and free trade. Go check it out…
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
“More of this”, i said to the dog.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
I was promised a recession.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
We still have time to mess this up!
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
You can’t love your country only when you win.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
“But what about the lurkers?”
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.
Jon H
Er, no.
Microsoft’s local fundie himself claims to have been the cause of Microsoft’s change.
The AFL/CIO has very little to do with the story. They certainly didn’t drive it. They’re using for their own purposes, but that doesn’t retroactively change the history of what happened.
John Cole
According to Richard, Microsoft never supported the bill in question, and it is entirely possible that both the AFL-CIO and the fundie are using disinformation to promote their own agenda.
Jon H
Microsoft supported it in prior years. They certainly appear to have had a change in policy.
The AFL-CIO would seem to be irrelevant to the issue.
John Cole
Jon- Your beef is with Richard, then, because he claims they did not support it this year:
Note that this is the official statement of
Justin Faulkner
“Microsoft never supported this year
John Cole
Seems like Richard has this one wrong.
raj
When MS supports repealing the portion of the Washington State anti-discrimination law that forbids discrimination based on religion, I’ll believe their BS. They won’t, so I don’t (believe their BS that is).
So that means that it would be illegal for a gay man to fire (or refuse to hire) someone because he his a conservative christian, but it is perfectly legal for a conservative christian to fire (or refuse to hire) a gay man.
Looks like the conservative christians have cooked the books–in their favor. And MS approves.
bago
Microsoft is pretty cool. They have a very high freak tolerance, because they fundamentally realie that competence is far more important than kinks. Yeah, ther’s some groups where deviance will get you into trouble, but once you’ve proved that you are a highly competent person, the fact that you come in at 2 PM and listen to loud music becomes irrelevant.
Effective people are worth more than so much more than outsourcable labor.