Yikes. This is the strangest thing I've seen on HN in a long time. How can someone responsible for product at Github (!) think posting your private twitter account in a context like this is acceptable, and even more so when it's filled with this garbage.

I didn't actually see anything overtly homophobic/transphobic, though there's some border control posts he liked/retweeted that go a bit into the racist side. Not someone I'd want to hang out with, but I don't see anything like what was being said.

Still, what could possibly make anyone think posting a personal twitter handle for this was a good idea. That alone makes me question that he should have the role he does at GitHub.

I disagree with their politics and think it's unprofessional to conduct business through a personal twitter account made up of partisan political retweets regardless of the politics, however I don't think it's necessary for you to repost this person's twitter account after they removed it from this thread, it will only lead to unnecessary harassment. I hope that you or the moderators remove it.

This is the same company whose sales team celebrated their ICE contract with little American flag and eagle emoji (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31...) and eventually decided to donate all their proceeds from the ICE contract (i.e., their motivation was helping ICE, not making money).

Everyone here lives under capitalism. Making money is fine. Saying "If you pay us, we'll take your money" is totally expected. But that's not what they're doing here.

But GitHub is now a MAGA-converged organization pushing a social agenda, and you can see it in the quality of their engineering.