Take this argument to reddit, please.
(Of course, if this gets downmodded immediately, then we'll all know that won't be necessary. Reddit has arrived here.)
Someone asked why I didn't accept a job at Google; I answered.
I don't come here to debate politics, but I don't think politics are automatically off-topic here -- particularly when they influence questions like "should I move to Silicon Valley?" or "should I launch a startup company?".
I'm not sure what to say really... you answered honestly and certainly weren't concentrating on that aspect of it. Perhaps the best thing is if people have the fortitude to not respond to politically themed things even if they strongly disagree.
This is a place where we hackers get together to encourage each other to leverage our technological (and other) skills to build great businesses. When someone posts a remark like that, it needs to be challenged. Left unchallenged, it stands as "accepted".
(Funny, OP won't go to google because of the actions of the U.S. Senate, but still chooses to conduct that argument in a forum which is based in the U.S. Logic, please?)
I don't blame Google for the US Senate's lack of backbone, either. However, the legal situation, my dislike for what I saw of Silicon Valley weather (I like humidity), and the urban sprawl were all factors in my deciding that it wasn't an environment I would enjoy.