• cygnus@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    48·
    vor 1 Tag

    unless you’re stating that anything that praises the Republicans is full MAGA

    If you’ll read the thread, this is not the first time he has praised Trump.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      vor 4 Stunden

      Where’s the quote, Cygnus? Or can we just assume you were lying?

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      73·
      vor 24 Stunden

      Just so everyone is clear, this is what you’re framing as “praise”:

      It is not Trump’s fault

      It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.

      The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time. The left is correct to be terrified of a Trump-led NSA snooping on their communications, especially since Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook can be forced to spy on users on behalf of Trump’s NSA. However, this precedent was not set by Trump – he hasn’t even taken office yet. The first major incident of a US tech giant being complicit in US government spying actually took place in 2015 under the Obama administration(new window).

      • cygnus@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        38·
        vor 24 Stunden

        Why did you leave out the part about democrats being corrupt and republicans being champions of the little guy?

        • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
          62·
          vor 24 Stunden

          I quoted it from the thread, which was the source you referenced.

          Go ahead a share the full quote, then.

            • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
              91·
              vor 23 Stunden

              So not only is this not the quote we were talking about (you said he had praised Trump in the past), but he doesn’t even mention Trump in this post.

              Talk about disingenous. God I wish we didn’t act exactly the way the right accuses us of.