I can't emphasize how strongly news outlets zero-in on topics that might be inflammatory with almost algorithmic precision. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, there was a story about some Amazon SWE's celebrating the outcome. It's a perfect blend of "Amazon bad + perennial political topic." Amazon has 70,000 software engineers; if some of them weren't politically conservative I'd be very surprised.
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I can't emphasize how strongly news outlets zero-in on topics that might be inflammatory with almost algorithmic precision. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, there was a story about some Amazon SWE's celebrating the outcome. It's a perfect blend of "Amazon bad + perennial political topic." Amazon has 70,000 software engineers; if some of them weren't politically conservative I'd be very surprised.