@desa:
Republicans believe people should be helping themselves and that the democrats altruistic ways is just going to sink everyone by trying to save everyone rather than let those who can't swim die by themselves.
Republicans believe in a thing called Randian economics. Which is to say they regard the free market as an almost religious force of good, that if left untouched will make everything work out in the end.
Oh this company produces poisonous baby products?? Well surely after people notice they will just stop buying the products :). No need for regulations! Regulations are the devil!
Likewise, their belief regarding poverty is that poverty will just fix itself if people were driven enough and not "spoiled" by assisstance programs and so on. You frame that above as being somehow not a fantastical naive belief opposite the apparently romantic altruistic idea. There's plenty of poverty in your country, but maybe you don't get so close to it if you don't think "people can just pull themselves en mass out of it" isn't a heavily romantic fantasy idea.
Because the reality is that isn't going to happened outside a few individuals.
I think we were talking about the voters not the decision makers. In Which case I would imagine that while hard it is important for them to assure their survival and do what must be improve chances of survival.
Ah so the Republican voters are good at not being ideological purists. That's great news for the Republicans, because their entire healthcare agenda might be wrecked today due to a thing called the HFC. And according to you the HFC shouldn't exist. Look it up.
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@RoboBlue:
Jontron's being removed from Yooka Laylee explicitly because of his views (he was a voice actor).
I'm pretty disgusted by what Jon said, and I understand that it's common practice to fire people for their views in America… but I have mixed feelings about this.
Jontron isn't a nameless technician, he's a semi-celebrity attached to the project in that capacity.
When a company is connecting themselves to your name, and your name becomes mud, the entire reason you're there in the first place has become moot.
If they wanted to distance themselves from him by hiring another voice actor and replacing him (which they obviously did), they could have done so without addressing the controversy publicly.
The entire point of distancing themselves from him is PR related. Why wouldn't they make it public. They want to emphasize they don't associate their brand with him.
There's already a movement to boycott Playtronic, which I think is a huge overreaction and would hurt what could be a fantastic game.
What would be the appropriate reaction to a company not wanting a racist idiot connected to their product?
Still, I really don't like the idea of employers being able to punish employees for political comments made outside of the workplace (pro or anti-trump tweets, for example).
Jon was not an employee, he's a cameo making d-list celebrity.
just something I came across
