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Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State under George W. Bush, and defender of Bush-era (and onward) policies about surveillance by wiretapping and other means, has landed at an interesting place: she's just become a part of the small board at Dropbox. TechDirt calls the appointment "tone deaf," and writes "At a time when people around the globe are increasingly worried about American tech firms having too close a connection to the intelligence community, a move like this seems like a huge public relations disaster. While Rice may be perfectly qualified to hold the role and to help Dropbox with the issues it needs help with, it's hard not to believe that there would be others with less baggage who could handle the job just as well."
Some people are doing more than looking for an alternative for themselves, too, as a result.
And TechDirt can suck a bag of dicks.
She's a horrible cunt who lied to America to lead us into a war that helped to bankrupt the country, both morally and economically. Gifting her a board position is as helpful to a technology company as literally sucking GWB's cock. I will be migrated off from Dropbox by the end of the day. Fuck them.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
He's certainly qualified.......he invented the internet.
And he's a Democrat.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
...reminds me of Steve Schmidt on Colbert saying only criminals want privacy
You can't take Stephen Colbert seriously - it's a comedy show where he portrays a republican caricature.
The Iraq war achieved all of it's objectives:
* Got our troops out of Kuwait, and anywhere else too close to Mecca
* Removed Saddam, both ending his destabilizing influence in the region, and showing other tin-pot dictators that the US should be feared.
* Allowed Iraq to achieve democracy (the Iraqis did the hard part, of course, but the removal of the dictator was the needed first step.
Arguably, Iraqi democracy inspired the Arab Spring - it certainly played a role. Sounds like the war was a good idea to me: we achieved all of our objectives. Did you confuse the propaganda reasons for the war with the actual goals?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I canceled my Dropbox account, and I let them know why.
I hope you consider the Obama admin one of the most terrifying Democratic admins in history then as they oversaw defense of drone assassinations and much more expanded mass-surveillance. Lets add in gun-running to mexico, getting our ambassador to Libya and 3 others dead and then lying about it, enacting policies that encourage the militarization of local police, etc. Of course it takes a lot to surpass the Woodrow Wilson admin with their arresting journalists and shutting down newspapers that were their enemies. Be heh...Obama has two more years still.
BTW, since I'm being critical of Obama, does that mean I'm now basically a klan member? At least according to Hank Aaron it is...
She's a horrible cunt ...
If she were white they would call her racist... but since she isn't...
"His name was James Damore."