Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of Facebook employees have reportedly expressed anger that an executive attended Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh's public hearing last week to support him, The Wall Street Journal reports. Joel Kaplan, Facebook's head of global policy, was at Kavanaugh's hearing because he is reportedly close friends with the Supreme Court Justice nominee. Outraged employees reportedly brought his appearance up during an internal question-and-answer session with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and have been expressing their concerns in internal discussion threads. On Friday, Zuckerberg said that "he wouldn't have made the same decision but the appearance didn't violate Facebook policies," the Journal reports.

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Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra

[jd]

Most people worthy of being judges would be different. Very few are. Open hatred of women and democrats is not acceptable in a judge. Open hatred of anyone is not acceptable in a judge.

But I wouldn't expect those who stand to profit to understand or care.

Re: well, sure

[jd]

Since the guy has slandered his accuser and openly stated that he will rule against democrats on principle, your statement applies to the accused as much as anyone else.

But I doubt you care as long as you win. Winning matters, not doing what is right, right?

Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr

[Jahoda]

At the national level, the Republicans have eliminated their seniority system, so young(er) people with new ideas are put in positions of responsibility and visibility.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are led by geezers like Pelosi and Schumer, who would be toxic to the national electorate.

I mean, goddamn man, how fucking far up your own ass does your head have to be to believe this shit?? The leaders of the Republican party are people like Cocaine Mitch McConnell and Orin "Golden Plates" Hatch, who have been holding strong for 40 years. There are _no_ young republicans who are up-and-coming in the so-called power infrastructure. And there are not going to be, you know why? Because as long as conservatism continues to fight their bullshit social cultural war, they will *never* attract the young voters who could otherwise be seduced by the lies of "privatization" and untruths about the evils of "regulation" .

whether you like it or not, the stats don't lie. Generation X is leaning 50/50, the millenials are leaning 60/40 (75/25 for women), Currently the degeneracy of the party is working REAL hard on ensuring that Generation Z will *never* vote republican.

I'm sorry, but you can have whatever opinion you want, but you're not entitled to your own version of the facts. There is one and _only_ one party that has any interest in good governance and giving a shit about the people of America.

Who know Pyrrhus of Epirus was republican? =D

It won't be

[rsilvergun]

because the Dems would have done a background check and found the accusations, just like the GOP did. The They knew about Kavanaugh history and didn't care. GOP went forward anyway because that's how little they think of the voting public. They're oligarchs. You and I will do as we are told.

Re:A certain level

[AmiMoJo]

Surely if he had any integrity he would have ditched his friend as soon as it became clear what sort of person he really was. He could have walked out of that hearing once he saw the performance Kavanaugh was putting on.