Hello Hexbears!

I am acquaintances with a student who has a very likely lead on a software development position with a major military equipment manufacturer. He is VERY excited about this. Now, I don’t know him too well but we are close enough to have a conversation and I would like to try to prevent him from going down this path. Especially considering he has other, less blood-soaked leads. His politics are unclear but from what I can gather he is vaguely progressive/berniecrat-ish, possibly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but that’s not 100% confirmed.

I have an idea of how I’m going to talk to him about this but I’m looking to see if anyone here has any experience regarding what is or is not effective in conversations like these.

Disorganized rambling

Ok so I’m being vague about what company this is specifically for OPSEC reasons but from what I gather its pretty unambiguous that he would be contributing to the development of guided bombs, police surveillance, and networked weapons systems. Of course he has not actually said any of this. To him, the soon-to-be college grad its a high-paying job with some degree of prestige in a shitty labor market. The banality of evil in the imperial core I guess.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    How mean are you allowed to be? I haven’t gone to many punk shows lately and youre about to hear kinda why, i say a pal who i wanted to catch up with and this dude who plays in 3 punk bands and is apparently an anarchist was talking about how he was taking computer stuff at community college and said his teacher had worked for both the cia and nsa. I replied ‘so he’s pure evil.’ Not really expecting blowback, and got a what do you mean. If punks dont accept the nsa and cia as ontologically evil, fuck em