Friendly reminder: if you feel passionate and excited about someone else being denied employment, or otherwise punished based on their views, you are likely being manipulated. By caring about those things you care less about demanding a better deal for yourself, and that's exactly what the media wants. USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here.

> USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here

Can you link to where I could read up on that? Propaganda tactics are fascinating, and this one is one I never knew about.

I believe what they're talking about is more commonly referred to as "McCarthyism".

No, McCarthyism was an anti-communist panic in the USA. They're referring to USSR propaganda. I assure you, resentment over a better quality of life was not driving McCarthyism. Quality of life was far lower in the USSR, in addition to the fact that the Union and SSRs had more mass killings and abuses of citizens than United States by orders of magnitude:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Sovie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Eston...

A place with high quality of life wouldn't have three entire nations jump at the first sign of instability to declare independence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution

"I have seen the future, and it works!" is nothing more than demonstrably false propaganda. See here the anarcho-communist Emma Goldman say it themselves:

http://libcom.org/files/Emma%20Goldman-%20My%20Disillusionme...

The not-insignificant portion of the population that either doesn’t care about or sympathizes with such an employee’s politics?

Maybe not in SFBA though.

Probably Gab, did well for someone who used to work at Facebook.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7abex/gabs-new-cto-is-a-for...

Can you please help me understand why working at TMTG ends someone's career?

I assure you nobody outside America would really care, or know, what that company was.

Not everyone in tech blacklists people based on their politics.