GenCon threatens to exit Indy over 'religious freedom' measure

[Lowe0]

So because a bunch of Steampunks, Furries*, Bronies and anime fans have butthurt Indiana has to stop doing the right thing?


I'm sure there's some other group of neckbeards willing to take their place in Indy.


* Don't forget: this, this, this and this.


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OK, but do you have a dismissive label for tech workers like those at Salesforce? Something cute and catchy, like, I dunno, "taxpayers"?

 

[miguel]

OK, but do you have a dismissive label for tech workers like those at Salesforce? Something cute and catchy, like, I dunno, "taxpayers"?

Have you polled every Salesforce worker about their position on the issue or are you trusting their Gruppenführer? Not that I doubt there are plenty who are against it.

Salesforce should worry about making money rather than being SJW. They've been in the red for several years now.

 

[eldirector]

I use SalesForce every day. Logged in right now, actually. Nice to know they care so little for me as a customer, and even less of me as a Hoosier. I am making a note of this, for the next time we evaluate vendors.

 

[Lowe0]

Have you polled every Salesforce worker about their position on the issue or are you trusting their Gruppenführer? Not that I doubt there are plenty who are against it.

Salesforce should worry about making money rather than being SJW. They've been in the red for several years now.

Gruppenführer? Really? Grow up.

As for the opinions of the technically-inclined millennials that we're going to need to recruit here if we plan to sustain, let alone grow, the tech industry that we've just spent over a decade building here, feel free to check out Reddit or Twitter. Don't take my word for it; go straight to the source.

This "culture war" is getting in the way of what needs to be priority number one: getting Hoosiers back to work.

 

[Alpo]

Perhaps it is just my circle of friends or family, but the responses I got today was that Indiana has headed in the same direction as the caliphates.

 

[NumberCruncher]

^^^^ Wow, so you are really going to equate the passage of this law to beheading people, mass murder, crucifying and burning people alive?!

That is unbelievable stunning.

 

[Alpo]

Not me, but that is the reaction I'm getting. In my view, it makes no difference, although I do consider it a waste of taxpayer money to spend time constructing laws such as this.

 

[JettaKnight]

^^^^ Wow, so you are really going to equate the passage of this law to beheading people, mass murder, crucifying and burning people alive?!

That is unbelievable stunning.

Hi, I see you're new to INGO.

 

[JettaKnight]

This "culture war" is getting in the way of what needs to be priority number one: getting Hoosiers back to work.

Screw morality and freedom, $$$$$$$




And what's this Salesforce thing? Did I miss something in this thread. (yeah, TL/DR)

And why can't techies, like myself, also favor freedom?

 

[Lowe0]

Screw morality and freedom, $$$$$$$




And what's this Salesforce thing? Did I miss something in this thread. (yeah, TL/DR)

And why can't techies, like myself, also favor freedom?

Try filling a pothole with morality. Let me know how it goes.

 

[miguel]

Gruppenführer? Really? Grow up.

As for the opinions of the technically-inclined millennials that we're going to need to recruit here if we plan to sustain, let alone grow, the tech industry that we've just spent over a decade building here, feel free to check out Reddit or Twitter. Don't take my word for it; go straight to the source.

This "culture war" is getting in the way of what needs to be priority number one: getting Hoosiers back to work.

Yes, really.

Set your own priorities, boyo. It's still a free ****ing country. Don't be surprised when you pick a battle if there are people on the other side.

 

[JettaKnight]

Try filling a pothole with morality. Let me know how it goes.

At least I'll still be able to look at myself in the mirror.

 

[Lowe0]

At least I'll still be able to look at myself in the mirror.

If I were the one keeping $50M a year flowing into the area, money that pays people's rents, bills, puts food on their tables, I think I could live with what I see just fine.

And that's just one convention; we haven't even started on the NCAA. It's easy to stand on principle when someone else gets to pay the bill.

 

[hoosierdoc]

If I were the one keeping $50M a year flowing into the area, money that pays people's rents, bills, puts food on their tables, I think I could live with what I see just fine.

And that's just one convention; we haven't even started on the NCAA. It's easy to stand on principle when someone else gets to pay the bill.

So what, we prostitute ourselves out instead?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If I were the one keeping $50M a year flowing into the area, money that pays people's rents, bills, puts food on their tables, I think I could live with what I see just fine.

And that's just one convention; we haven't even started on the NCAA. It's easy to stand on principle when someone else gets to pay the bill.

I'll be amazed if there's that many willfully ignorant people running companies and organizations.

No I wouldn't...many of the same have fallen for other emotionally charged, unsubstantiated calls to arms. And they've ****ed away millions and millions of dollars trying to keep the globe from warming or the ozone hole from growing--maybe they've got millions more to waste.

 

[Lowe0]

So what, we prostitute ourselves out instead?

Prostitution? No, just pragmatism.

 

[miguel]

Doesn't the left always eat **** like this up?

Or is there small print that says, "Unless they threaten to take the Final Four away, then focus on more money"

 

[Blackhawk2001]

OK, but do you have a dismissive label for tech workers like those at Salesforce? Something cute and catchy, like, I dunno, "taxpayers"?

How about politically-correct douchebags? Now, having made that nasty remark, I know a couple who work there (or at least they did when it was Exact Target) and I doubt they got wrapped around the axle like their CEO or the Mayor of San Francisco did. I still think this particular crisis is going to quietly go away - at least until some scumbucket tries to force a small business owner to ******** against the business owner's religious beliefs. And think about this: if a small business owner doesn't have strongly held beliefs, why in the wide wide world of sports would he turn down a sale?

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Gruppenführer? Really? Grow up. As for the opinions of the technically-inclined millennials that we're going to need to recruit here if we plan to sustain, let alone grow, the tech industry that we've just spent over a decade building here, feel free to check out Reddit or Twitter. Don't take my word for it; go straight to the source. This "culture war" is getting in the way of what needs to be priority number one: getting Hoosiers back to work.

Say, what do you suppose happens when there is a "culture war"? Do you expect one side to just give up? Or are you so sure of your own opinion that you don't feel you should have to put up with others disagreeing with you? There are plenty of Hoosiers - and others in this nation - who don't believe that the fact that you or anyone else calls us names "homophobe", "hater," "bigot" makes it so. If we want to continue to believe what we were taught as children, or what we came to believe as adults, we have the same rights to those beliefs as you have to yours and - at this point - we have the political will to push back against your beliefs and the strong-arm tactics some people are using to push their agendae on us.

 

[Lowe0]

Doesn't the left always eat **** like this up?

Or is there small print that says, "Unless they threaten to take the Final Four away, then focus on more money"

Would you like to let the people who would have been hired with that money know that living life on your terms was more important than creating jobs?