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 outr

[king neckbeard]

Yeah, he was a party boy at a school for the elites. You know, the ones that rape children in the basement of pizza parlors? Kavanaugh is the kind of person Trump has been calling to have locked up, and now they're okay with making him a top tier judge?

Re: Crybabies cry.

[jd]

No way to speak about Republicans.

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

[king neckbeard]

He's already been caught lying, which was enough to impeach a president. If he was even remotely qualified, it'd be a different story, but he's an elitist shitbag that's only in power because he comes from the right family.

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

[king neckbeard]

My point wasn't about the parties, my point was that elites are abusive scumbags. That point was a third of Trump's campaign rhetoric, and it resonated because it was true to a significant extent, but it's being ignored now because of which "team" the person in question is on.

He hasn't had a trial

[rsilvergun]

or even a real investigation. That's what happened. Let the FBI work without the president interfering and we'll talk.

What little we do know shows why the GOP is fighting so hard against this. We've got 3-4 accusers (one of them is too afraid to step forward and is anonymous). We've got multiple corroborating reports from people who knew him at the time. He's perjured himself multiple times (including about things unrelated to the assaults).

If I submitted an app to 7-11 with this many holes in my background check I'd be turned down, but somehow we're going to put a guy in one of if not the most powerful positions with this on his record?

Something ain't right. He's being rammed through by the mega corps and mark my words, we're going to regret it. We're gonna miss Roe v Wade guys, because when this guy gets done gutting worker protections we're all gonna wish we were aborted.