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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I am sad because of all the people in this thread who think the CEO is "fascist-sympathetic" because he said Trump did something better than the Democrats one time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Yeah, having only just switched from GMail to Proton last week my heart sank when I saw “Proton are MAGA”.

Then I spent three minutes reading up on it and it’s like, the CEO said one thing about policy on regulation of big tech that was critical of the Democrats for not doing enough, and the internet has decided that means he’s MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolutely agreed. I think when you have such role in a company you should avoid making political statements at all, because no matter what you say you will end up upsetting some people. In this case, "try-hard" democrats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well, it's worth leveraging your status to communicate to the politicians (i.e. this tweet). In this case, it cost him more than I think he was expecting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol that is done with money, not social media posts. A CEO should know that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

why would he want to donate to trump? Public praise is worth more in many instances.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m of the opinion he should’ve shut the fuck up or said better words, so I don’t have any interest in trying to answer that for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah he should've said what he said more tactfully. But sometimes one's most controversial comments are ones that one wouldn't have thought would get a lot of attention at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not Even trump, just «the republicans»