Inception bitch!

  • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    I will die on this hill - the Proton CEO was right when he praised GOP in the context of the time, and situation.

    The situation was: GOP accidentally* going against Big Tech and pro-citizens, while Democrats were defending Big Tech (just to be in opposition-by-default to GOP). Specifically, the CEO’s tweet was about how Trump nominating a fairly loudly outspoken anti-Big Tech person to a very high position in the DOJ was a good thing.

    The time was: just before Trump 2 took office and showed what a shit-show his admin, and GOP have become.

    The guy was ONLY talking about Big Tech and anti-trust policies nothing else. He never said “GOP is good for the US” or “GOP is good for the world”, he said “GOP are doing a bunch of anti-trust and anti-Big Tech moves right now and it’s good”.

    People dropping Proton for this reason are the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

    * it was because Trump was throwing a hissy fit at Meta and Twitter for allowing people to express anti-Trump opinions.

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      5 hours ago

      The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie. The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

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        4 hours ago

        The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie.

        Nobody ever suggested otherwise. I specifically mentioned that myself.

        The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

        He didn’t “buy” anything. He didn’t become a Republican, WTF are you people talking about? He literally said, that at the time GOP was more anti-Big Tech and pro-consumer than the Democrats and that a specific appointment was a good choice.

        Since when does stating facts mean you’re “buying someone’s BS”?