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Reddit discusses the Portland State University protests successfully getting PSU to pause their relationship with Boeing (old.reddit.com)
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For context, the PSU student council and elected body has had a resolution calling for PSU to divest from Boeing and cut all relationships since 2021, which the administration has ignored. It is the ‘democratic’ will of the student to cut ties with Boeing but you wouldn’t know that by all the kvetching and moaning in these threads and on the PSU subreddit

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Then perhaps they should design highways for the city. I’m looking at random locations in states that aren’t known for their tech industry, and I’m finding a bunch of non military shit. There are jobs where you travel from location to location and handle IT matters. There are customer service jobs, development jobs for telecoms. I say this as a CS major without a career yet: tough shit. STEM fuckers are some of the laziest, most entitled bastards

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm also curious how it was decided these jobs were non-military. Like how many steps removed is good enough? If they do business with / are a vendor for Honeywell but don't directly sell to the DoD is that OK or is that complicity? What if it is a small portion of the business but you don't work on it?

    There's entire fields/industries that probably can't get removed from this, and while it is fine to say people shouldn't support them it really comes across more as blinders on how extensive this is.

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