I want you to notice something. Take a look at Charles C.W. Cooke’s argument against boycotting Dropbox because it has put Condoleeza Rice on their Board of Directors:
Apparently, Rice can’t serve on a board because Dropbox has a “commitment to freedom, openness, and ethics” and Rice ”helped start the Iraq War,” “was involved in the creation of the Bush administration’s torture program,” “not only supports warrantless wiretaps” but “authorized several,” and “was on the Board of Directors at Chevron.” In other words, because Rice holds political positions that the campaign doesn’t like — and which she has shown no evidence of having disavowed.
Mr. Cooke just called torturing people and starting a war of aggression on false pretensions “political positions.” Most people would call those things crimes of a rather high order. And I suppose anyone who doesn’t want to indirectly give their money to Condi Rice is now going to be accused of trying to stifle, what? The freedom to torture people and start phony wars without it interfering with your income?
You can’t have a debate with these folks because the way they set the terms of debate is simply unacceptable. And you know what Mr. Cooke would think about a company with Noam Chomsky on its board, don’t you?
I support a boycott of dropbox… whatever that is.
Seriously, I don’t know what it is but will find out right after I post this and google it.
You are right, Booman. You cannot have a debate with about half this country. It is time to give up on America.
Proto-cloud storage company. My wife has used it for years, loves it.
I see… this is where you voluntarily send files for viewing by the NSA/CIA/FBI? Some kind of “I’m not a terrorist so search all my files” thing?
Sorry for the snark, but hey… they do want a high government security official on their board so it seems to make sense.
I don’t even know what to think about this stuff anymore. We’ve all gone completely insane.
If you want to hurt Dropbox, absolutely sign up for one of their FREE accounts, and make sure to put ~50MB of random data on their servers, changed daily.
You screw with Dropbox, you screw with the NSA, it costs you a little time (until you work out how to automate it) and zero money. What’s not to like?
Instead of random data, you could post rants about Rice/Yoo/Cheney/Bush crimes, but that’s more work.
Ha! I should just post my rants from here!
But Booman, don’t you know that the debate is never settled on any issues? Why don’t you have an open mind? Don’t you care about free speech?
Andrew Sullivan is going to have a stroke by the weekend. He’s going on and on about Ayaan Hersi Ali’s speech being hurt. He’s also complaining that the WaPo is giving tortute advocate Theissan space in their paper. Why does he want to stifle debate?
He’s going on and on about Ayaan Hersi Ali’s speech being hurt.
Where in the Constitution does it say I’m entitled to an honorary degree from Brandeis, Harvard or some other such institution?
Well, at least Cooke didn’t claim that “drop Dropbox” is illegal. Not the hardball a certain Obama appointed US government official is playing against people not keen on US spying.
Now THAT is approaching Republican chutzpah.
Listen.
The pig people are going to come to the defense of the oligarchs all-day, every day.
They’re already shifted their argument that boycotting a brand is Democracy to it being mob rule. Because now libruuuuuuuls do it.
Dixie Chics say something benign about Bush being from Texas? BURN THEIR ALBUMS AND DON’T PLAY THEIR MUSIC.
Some Pigfucker with a few hundred million dollars uses his power to fuck over some minority? BOYCOTTING THEIR COMPANY IS FASCIST MOB RULE AND IS KILLING FREEDUMB.
Politics to the pig people is as simple as this:
Freedom = Things I like
Tyranny: Things I don’t like
This is the whole ball game right here.
When anti-gun activists spoke up after the Sandy Hook shooting, they were accused of “politicizing” the event (or, more directly, of “taking advantage” of the tragedy to pursue “political” ends).
When Michael Moore spoke out against the Iraq War at the Oscars, he was accused of “politicizing” the ceremony.
When Clinton made (extremely oblique) reference to Watergate during Nixon’s funeral, he was accused of “politicizing” the event.
Of course when they have a cause it’s completely different. Refusing to participate in events or appear on certain television shows, or criticizing celebrities for their religious views, or speaking out in favor of “the family” or religion or a pro-life agenda or “freedom” or “our troops” are all totally legit, mainstream, bread-and-butter positions that are absolutely beyond reproach — they all fall under the heading of “basic decency” and are to be applauded.
I mean, look at all the Limbaux-and-others outrage over CBS hiring Stephen Colbert. Hiring a conservative is always just supposed to be business as usual…but hiring a liberal is “an assault on traditional values.”