Don't judge employees for what their CEOs do bc they do not have a choice in the matter.
That resume you toss might be someone that needs to pay a mortgage, has a sick wife, or autistic kid that needs the insurance. Or it could come from an employee who genuinely disagrees with mission and quit, but its not like you would know or even care.
What if your CEO went politically rogue and started openly supporting Trump? Would you quit? I doubt that.
What a childish attitude. Get your politics TF out of the office and remember the fact that we live in a democracy where sometimes you do not get your way.
> What if your CEO went politically rogue and started openly supporting Trump? Would you quit? I doubt that.
Yes. I would. Trump is a uniquely dangerous president with uniquely unrestrained power.
I'll continue to write my representatives, publicly protest, boycott businesses and employers, and use all other legal levers of power that I can. My kids future cannot afford to let these crimes continue unchecked.
> Get your politics TF out of the office...
A large portion of our lives is spent at the office, with people we may not otherwise interact with. Former coworkers sharing their perspectives helped sow the seeds of my change in politics, both on individual issues and worldview.
It's childish to think life can be perfectly compartmentalized, like pre-K learning stations.
In my view the judicial and legislative branches should be no less powerful than the executive.
If there is truly an impasse the legislative branch should win because it is the most diverse and direct representation of the people.
I also have other crazy ideas like money isn't speech, ranked choice voting, same-day primaries, outlawing private financing of campaigns, bribery is accepting compensation even if before the action being bought, abolishing the electoral college and the US Senate, and no one is above investigation or the law--not even in their official capacity.
>> What if your CEO went politically rogue and started openly supporting Trump? Would you quit? I doubt that.
> Yes. I would. Trump is a uniquely dangerous president with uniquely unrestrained power.
Even if it meant you could lose your house? Even if you were 6 months pregnant (meaning it could put your health insurance in jeopardy at a pretty critical time, as well as your parental leave)? Even if you quitting would accomplish absolutely nothing?
Any maybe you're such a zealot that you'd rather end up homeless than working for a company managed by a CEO that supports Trump. But don't punish other people for not being willing to do the same. Other people have other priorities, and other situations going on in their life, and that's fine.
Consider that more than 50% of your fellow American citizens voted for the man you hate, and you will have to work with them no matter what. That's called "democracy."
People can elect racists. rapists, conmen, human traffickers, pedophiles, and even dictators. Doesn't mean I have to work with them or accept any of those as normal.
> People can elect racists. rapists, conmen, human traffickers, pedophiles, and even dictators. Doesn't mean I have to work with them or accept any of those as normal.
Trump is no saint, but you are turning him into a cartoonish villain. That never stopped democrats from taking his donation checks, did it?
> Resisting tyranny is a core tenant of democracy.
No, the core tenant of democracy is everyone gets a vote and you agree to live with the outcome, bc you get a vote too. And if you do not agree with the outcome, then you are the tyrant.
> Trump is no saint, but you are turning him into a cartoonish villain.
I didn't claim Trump is any of those things yet. Though courts would agree that he's a racist (in his tenant policies, never mind his retoric), a felon (financial crimes), a fraud (sending nonprofit money to Bondi's campaign), obstructs the biggest pedo investigation ever (redacting even "don't"), and the 14th amendment would disqualify him from federal office--if he hadn't packed SCOTUS (who rule for him 90+% vs 90+% against in lower courts).
> That never stopped democrats from taking his donation checks, did it?
Democrats have plenty of blood on their hands. At least some of them continue to try to reform campaign financing. Modern Republicans seem to relish in the money laundering aspects, especially Trump.
> And if you do not agree with the outcome, then you are the tyrant.
You cannot have democracy under tyranny. And if a country elects an aspiring dictator (who earlier lead a mob to overthrow an election result, sent fake electors, demanded votes be "found", demanded vote counting be stopped while he was ahead, etc) then I suppose it ceases to be a democracy thereafter.
Regardless, I'm not advocating illegal acts, despite the fact that Trump commits them on the regular. I'm advocating the exercise of freedom of speech, expression, and association in opposition to a (hopefully term limited) tyranny.
Sorry, but if you continue to work for a company that develops mass surveillance techniques that will directly result in innocent people getting their way of life unjustly and unlawfully ripped away from them, then I think you suck and I don't know how not to think that.
People said the same thing with the Nazi Regime. Im sorry at some point, you have to stop supporting a system that is destroying peoples lives. You cannot sit idly by and watch it happen because you need to pay bills.
It doesn't have to be a death camp or a gas chamber. Unlawfully arresting people based on their race or language and then shipping them out of state, where their representatives are unlawfully prohibited from inspection of the facility is vile shit. Your indifference to what that is like for those people is glaring and it makes my point for me.
Don't forget federal death row! They detain people and kill them there with poison, which is exactly what the Nazis did in their death camps. Under Trump, the US has become basically exactly like Nazi Germany.
No granular criminal-history breakdown exists for the specific individuals who died, and ICE has actively reduced oversight that might produce one, but:
ICE itself confirmed 36 deaths between Jan. 20, 2025 and Jan. 12, 2026, with two more after that date. There were 11 in 2024. ¹
73.6% of current detainees have no criminal convictions. ²
Of ~393,000 total ICE arrests between Jan. 21, 2025 and Jan. 31, 2026, about 153,000 (~39%) were "other administrative arrests" — immigrants detained solely for civil immigration offenses like overstaying a visa or being undocumented, with no criminal record. CBS News note that being undocumented is a civil infraction, not a crime.³
We are on our way to death camps.(maybe that's an over exaggeration, but we are still in a really bad place)
Secondly dissapearing people without due process is what this administration is doing. This is not about illegal immigrants, that's just a pretext for an all-out war on our constitutional freedoms. The fact that you are parreting those lies shows exactly what kind of agenda you have. Look around you if you are in fact interested in the truth of the matter.
And yes I am doing something about it. Resist and unsubscribed and training myself on non-complianace with freedomtrainers.
What are you doing? Ohh yes, parreting bullshit while the country gets destroyed. Good luck with that.
If you work at Palantir, your reputation is forever tainted in my mind.
You should not deserve a job for the rest of your life. You should be homeless and honestly, maybe end your life.
If your CEO supports Trump, that probably isn't the best thing either, although this is 1 million times better than being the tool used to break every laws, developing killing and spying machines.
Alex Karp has publicly supported Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. His company did work with the government before Trump, and you probably never had a problem with it until now.
Palantir always worked with the military, but I doubt you cared when they helped drone people during the Obama administration.
> You should not deserve a job for the rest of your life. You should be homeless and honestly, maybe end your life....I actually don't really have the biggest problem with Trump. I voted for him.
Some people here would say you should not deserve a job, be homeless, and maybe end your life bc you voted for Trump. How do you feel about that?
Don't judge employees for what their CEOs do bc they do not have a choice in the matter.
That resume you toss might be someone that needs to pay a mortgage, has a sick wife, or autistic kid that needs the insurance. Or it could come from an employee who genuinely disagrees with mission and quit, but its not like you would know or even care.
What if your CEO went politically rogue and started openly supporting Trump? Would you quit? I doubt that.
What a childish attitude. Get your politics TF out of the office and remember the fact that we live in a democracy where sometimes you do not get your way.