06.17.20

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Microsoft Insider: Microsoft is Full of Nationalists and Gun Enthusiasts

Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 8:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Political correctness-leaning policies are keeping this under the radar, but Microsoft is hardly what it seems to the outside world

“The irony,” told us a reader who had worked for Microsoft, is that Microsoft is totally hypocritical when it comes to tolerance. In his own words, based on what he saw at Microsoft: “People think I’m joking when I say that Microsoft is ironically full of weird hypocritical nationalists. I.e. people who take an undue amount of pride in their country that dare not question the merits or intentions of the government entities using their products while simultaneously taking great pride in working and living for a company notorious for skirting taxes and anti-trust laws established by the very same government.

“However, I often get the last laugh when the look of deep concern consumes their face after reminding them that the Microsoft gun club had like 20k members before being closed down for PC purposes and that I don’t use the term “nationalist” lightly.” █

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