When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
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I wouldn’t say he embraced Trump, I’d say he is pro-breaking big tech, since that would probably help Proton.
Bernie Sanders even came out and said “hey, if Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates, I’m with him on that.”
Trump says a lot of shit to appeal to working class people. I don’t disagree with reminding him of what he said and holding him to those things, if he’s now going to be president.
Trump's first term, when backlash from the 2016 campaign, Russian interference, and Cambridge Analytica forced Twitter & Facebook to start 'fact checking;' when republicans were on a tear about how 'big tech' was systematically censoring right-wing speech, they definitely had a 'break up big tech' agenda.
Now that Musk bought Twitter and showed us exactly what unfettered right wing propaganda can achieve, now that Zuckerberg has bent the knee and TikTok all but banned, I think all that anti-trust mumbo jumbo will be moving to a back burner.
If they had just said "this is a good selection for AG" and left it at that, I wouldn't be too upset, but he's painting broad strokes about the democratic party as a whole.
It's a completely brain-dead assessment. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are all Trump supporters.
You can add Pichai and Cook to that list too
Nearly every corporate executive, for nearly every company, is likely to be a Republican.
Even Tim Cook, an outspoken homosexual who has previously been the target of Trump-led MAGA vitriol, just recently expressed support and donated a million dollars to Trump.
If you think you can stop using products who support the Republican Party, you’re quickly going to find yourself in the Stone Age. Maybe that’s okay, but most people will just posture and harumph, and keep buying Samsung, Google, and Apple cell phones, Enamel baby formula, eat meat and vegetables grown using John Deere and Monsanto products… I could go on, but there is no need to depress myself.
That's in large part because the market has been engineered to force that on a lot of people. There's exceedingly few alternatives that aren't evil, and those few that exist are comparatively quite expensive to choose - especially at a time when much of the public doesn't get paid enough anymore to be able to afford that choice.
and hardcore ones at that. it's a transparent oligarchy