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Tech company CEO fired after threatening to kill Trump

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This is why you should stay away from the internet when you're drunk and pissed off.

The dumbest thing is, even if you wanted to make this joke (not saying it's reasonable - clearly saying you are going to kill someone is not OK by any stretch of the imagination, and should be called out for what it is), killing Trump just leaves you with Pence, which is arguably worse.

Really? The running political meme was that Pence was far more popular than his running mate.

I credit Trump's victory partially to his choice of VP.

Pence's social policies are even more regressive than Trump's, and his popularity within his party should make it even easier for him to get such legislation passed.

Pence certainly helped unite crucial Republican constituencies behind Trump, but for social liberals (presumably the group we're talking about in this thread) Pence is far worse.

Trump's social views are ambiguous and generally pretty moderate. He came out in favor of LGBTQ rights during the convention and considers gay marriage settled law. He claims to be pro-life now, but was pro-choice until 2011. He's not an active churchgoer, and his daughter is Jewish.

Pence claims that he is "a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order", and was majorly involved in the Tea Party. He's drawn consistent flack from gay rights & abortion advocates for his time as Indiana governor. His views may be more mainstream for the Republican party, but for the section of liberalism that this CEO likely represented, they're just as if not more abhorrent.

Huh, listening to some describe Trump, he was Hitler reincarnated.

Glad to hear the outcome found more middle ground than it might have.

That's a misinterpretation. Trump may appear to be slightly left of Pence, but 'middle ground'? No. Trump is still in favour of horrible stuff (and clearly by having Pence as VP, he is enabling those views as well). Trump is also much more variable - Pence has made his views clear where Trump has said little of actual policy. Just because Trump is trivially more left than Pence doesn't make him reasonable or his views anything less than terrifying and insane.

That was largely caused by the fact that Trump had been attacked consistently for over a year and Pence was comparatively unknown.

Also most people pushing it just wanted Trump to drop out. There was no way for Pence to win after a mid campaign candidate switch.

I said worse. Popular? Maybe. His views and plans are abhorrent, however - him being president would result in more damage than Trump, I imagine (although it's hard to say - Trump has more variance as he has been less clear about what he wants to do and lies even more).

The former is easier. The latter is harder. Sometimes using the internet is the reason you become pissed off and its hard to find a defining line of when you should step away.

https://packetsled.com/packetsled-response-to-matt-harrigan-...

>PacketSled takes recent comments made by our CEO, seriously. Once we were made aware of these comments, we immediately reported this information to the secret service and will cooperate fully with any inquiries.

That's got to be some awkward phone calls.

Incredible marketing move

This guy must have been a dream to work with...

I wouldn't assume. The current situation is making people, literally, loose their minds.

I'm not trying to justify what he said (far from it) but, I wouldn't assume that just because he's saying terrible things now, that he was remotely like this in the past.

Somebody who easily looses their cool tends not to be a great boss in my experience.

And yet 60M people voted for one. Madness.

What situation is that?

If a person loses their mind over a republican being elected president, I wouldn't want to work with that person. What happened to calm discourse?

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