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They're liberal on cultural issues, because it's an easy marketing win, (or at least was), they're not interested in any left-wing ideas that would give greater ownership of these companies to their employees for example.

> college being an overpriced scam is a conservative take!

Sure, the left wing take is to have high quality education paid for via tax dollars and thus being universally available, same as healthcare should be.




Some tech companies have been liberal on cultural issues in the past for promotional and branding reasons, like you suggest. Some, more recently, have promoted conservative talking points and ideas for the same reason. Those political positions and policies should not be seen as anything other than profit seeking and are almost completely disconnected from any ideological positions held by the leadership of those companies. If pretending to be MAGA creates engagement, they will all be MAGA.




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