Rightists believe the beneficiaries of society—its wealthy and its educated—should defend society, then are astonished when college-educated student join Red Brigades and when corporate heads support Communism.

The delusions of both exacerbate the current social and economic situation. Leftists must push towards ever-greater destruction and wokeness, else for what is their privilege? While Rightists plead and implore for the educated and wealthy to protect what’s good.

Both will fail.

It is time both lived in reality: Leftists within giant, wealthy, international corporations should be encouraged to live by their ideals and to destroy those companies, that we all might learn from reality.

Rightists should use recognize their enemies and strike accordingly: use the power of government to crack down on anti-social corporations, and strip woke graduates of their positions and degrees.

There are a fair number of people out there for whom “dominance” and “submission” are an all-encompassing subculture. “Doms” use a mixture of rewards and mindgames to gain psychological control over “subs”, formalizing that sort of relationship. The “sub” is persuaded that being (in effect) a slave is good for him (or her). It needn’t involve outright physical bondage or sadomasochism. The sub devotes himself to proving how completely loyal and submissive he is.

For a parallel, consider the Japanese cult of a samurai’s unquestioning loyalty to the ruler or in older days, the lord. If the lord was callous or even abusive, that merely emphasized the virtue of loyalty to him. (Which has an odd parallel in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Patience; or Bunthorne’s Bride: the heroine, Patience, is told that true love must be completely unselfish. Therefore she commits to loving the poet Bunthorne, whom she finds repulsive (and he is; but she finds a much nicer poet).

A potential “sub” can be persuaded of the “virtue” of complete surrender to a “dom”.

A wealthy and powerful man like Rubin has a lot of advantages he can use to “enthrall” (literally) a target.

I am not in the least surprised, if this is true. As far as I can tell, Google’s entire strategy is to have the employees never need to leave the campus. Thus all the freebies — chefs at the cafeteria, massage therapists, 20% of your time on personal projects, etc.

I get an email from a Google recruiter every few months and if I answer them it’s with “thanks but no thanks” — I don’t think I’m the kind of engineer they would really hire anyway, but even if they were I would have too high a tendency to have an existence outside the company.

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a bee ee? on November 3, 2018 at 5:14 am at 5:14 am said:
Having myself once come close to losing my job because She Said So, I think it’s important to step back and recognize that, unfortunately, there’s no right to “due process” in the corporate world or academia in situations like this. The best thing men can do is to avoid working or attending school at such places, and publicize on line the most egregious among them.

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Lots of intersecting commentary, but I would like to see how long it takes for the “burned nerds” to coalesce in a new, non-woke business enterprise.

Lizzy on November 3, 2018 at 7:01 am at 7:01 am said:
Based on the Google work environment presented in the James Damore lawsuit, Google has been encouraging its employees to blur their work and personal lives for years.
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MB on November 3, 2018 at 5:41 am at 5:41 am said:
These people are are trying to take over the company.
This is a sensible (prison?) tactic: pick someone powerful and give him a public beatdown. Every Google manager and executive will be afraid of them. Even if they don’t succeed this time, this is a serious show of strength and they can try again next time. Also, this strengthens their position and now they can’t be fired, because it would be a form of retaliation….
And the Google chiefs deserve it, for having fallen for all the PC stuff, like diversity and hiring underrepresented groups. These people are the diversity hires and their left-wing allies who pushed for their hiring in the first place.
They have made their bed, now let them lie in it.
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Tatterdemalian on November 3, 2018 at 12:31 am at 12:31 am said:
“I don’t believe in cutting a great road in the law to get after the ‘devil.’”

Neither do I, but nor do I think one can defend an implacable enemy to death. From the French Revolution to the Chavez Revolution, leftists have proven completely incapable of admitting they made any mistakes, let alone learning from them. …
They can’t learn, but they can catch individuals off guard and alone and overwhelm them one by one. Slowly they will win the war of attrition, if we don’t fight back, at least by forcing the leftists to suffer and die under laws just as unlivable as the laws they would inflict upon the rest of us.
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Metaphorical death, of course, for those SJWs watching for “inciting to violence” offenses.
The take-down of Damore was the trial run to see if Google would support free and open discussion, or sham diversity only, and they learned from that, at least.

The same thing was done at the universities: the presidents and faculty that didn’t back down aren’t having as many problems as the ones that did, to the point where they can’t even administer their own campuses now without a Political Officer looking over their shoulders all the time (and some of them want it that way…).

The colleges might hang on quite a while, since they are milking the public’s cows and have no real accountability for anything, but if you are letting the insane people run your business asylum, you are not going to last in the long run.

Still, there is a lot of ruin in a trillion dollar company.
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MikeK on November 3, 2018 at 11:33 am at 11:33 am said:
Soon, no important decision will be taken at Google without considering the “social ramifications” and “impact on marginalized groups”. Some diversity experts are about to land their dream job. Google is extremely rich and all ripe for plunder.

The “Diversity” thing is going to kill them off. If they drive away the “nerds” it will go faster.
I’m reading “Life after Google.”
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I haven’t read that yet, but I try to remind myself that — although it seems like we can’t possibly do without the search engines and email and so forth, the companies to which we have mortgaged our lives are all younger than my youngest child who works there (and I hope will continue to do so until at least the house is paid for).

“The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm – at first known as “BackRub” – in 1996. “

And now the #metoo fad has emerged to bite the big swinging dicks who screwed and abandoned too many lovers. And, Neo, none of them are victims. The men who betrayed their marriage vows and the women who just wanted to have fun … and a better job in return for sex, a commodity that never ran out.
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Don’t totally agree on the none — some women really don’t want to put out to get ahead — but many who do/did, and now see a better deal in being victims, are poisoning the well for the genuinely abused.

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Alec Rawls on November 3, 2018 at 4:15 am at 4:15 am said:
50% chance the “coercion” was him saying: “If you don’t want to have sex I’ll find a woman who does.”

50% it was him saying: “If you don’t want to have sex you’ll have to find a new sugardaddy.”

Either way it’s not coercion or harrassment. It is just negotiating the terms of a voluntary relationship, a more specifically prostitutional relationship in the latter case, but fully voluntary in either case.
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“Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course… ”
Churchill: “Would you sleep with me for five pounds?”
Socialite: “Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!”
Churchill: “Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price”

Based on the Google work environment presented in the James Damore lawsuit, Google has been encouraging its employees to blur their work and personal lives for years.
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MB on November 3, 2018 at 5:41 am at 5:41 am said:
These people are are trying to take over the company.
This is a sensible (prison?) tactic: pick someone powerful and give him a public beatdown. Every Google manager and executive will be afraid of them. Even if they don’t succeed this time, this is a serious show of strength and they can try again next time. Also, this strengthens their position and now they can’t be fired, because it would be a form of retaliation….
And the Google chiefs deserve it, for having fallen for all the PC stuff, like diversity and hiring underrepresented groups. These people are the diversity hires and their left-wing allies who pushed for their hiring in the first place.
They have made their bed, now let them lie in it.
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Tatterdemalian on November 3, 2018 at 12:31 am at 12:31 am said:
“I don’t believe in cutting a great road in the law to get after the ‘devil.’”

Neither do I, but nor do I think one can defend an implacable enemy to death. From the French Revolution to the Chavez Revolution, leftists have proven completely incapable of admitting they made any mistakes, let alone learning from them. They’ve burned their hands on the socialist fire to the point they’re cauterized at the armpits, yet still try to force other people to do the same because “it MUST work, once everyone else’s arms are burned off too.”

They can’t learn, but they can catch individuals off guard and alone and overwhelm them one by one. Slowly they will win the war of attrition, if we don’t fight back, at least by forcing the leftists to suffer and die under laws just as unlivable as the laws they would inflict upon the rest of us.
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“Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course… ”
Churchill: “Would you sleep with me for five pounds?”
Socialite: “Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!” Churchill: “Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price”