Greenland is a strategic position, especially with glaciers melting off.

Russia wants his puppet to take it over for them.

It is a deliberate choice by corpos to dumb everything down so that they can lock people in their ecosystem.

If you don’t know how things work, it’s a lot harded to switch to a new ecosystem.

We were equally dumb when younger, it is just that we look at them now with the experience we accumulated.

And we can flip the table and ask why no one is taking the time to train these young people. Stop being an old grumpy person and help the next generation.

The wait and see strategy doesn’t work and it won’t work now.

That was a milquetoast message of hope at best, to the same level of thoughts and prayers.

Endorsing people actually on the ground trying to resist the Nazification of the US would already be a big step up instead of a Obama giving a medal to Obama level meme of self congratulatory pat on the back.

Rally people to take concrete action for one. Go with AOC and Sanders on their tour.

Challenge all the bullshit executives orders in front of a judge, or give visibility to any group doing such a thing.

Call out old fucks like Schumer.

Any small effort to mobilise people to do something about what’s going on.

His notoriety will give a lot of weight to what he supports or call out.

Who gives a fuck. Do something with your influence instead of letting Trump fuck people over.

Let’s be real, the issue is that a lot of people agree with what Trump does.

Own that shit. Be weird, awkwardness is normal and we need to make it so.

They will be there when I am done with relaxing, they can wait.

Absolutely, and we’ll have to deal with US until Pangaea, but what I’m frustrated about is that COVID and the first Trump presidency should have been a wake up call and try to find solutions to make Canada more resilient to the US market.

But it has been status quo and our quality of life has been left to degrade with nothing to show for it.

So our politicians will slap counter tariffs, change jack shit and pat themselves on the back.

We are a big fucking country with a lot of resources but it seems like each province would rather trade with the US than with other provinces.

It started with a paid horse armor and he we are.

Go tell that to the idiots who think that the tariffs are paid by the companies exporting the goods.

You know what’s frustrating in all that? Is that our leaders won’t do jack shit to diversify the economy.

Nothing has changed much during COVID and nothing will change now.

People will suffer and nothing will change.

Then by all means, continue using Proton. But if you can’t understand why people are pissed about what Andy Yen, then there is nothing more to say.

The context and the message are pretty simple and clear and you try to make it nuanced for whatever reason. The guy sucked it up to Trump and people told him to get fucked.

CEO all over the world have been fucking people over for a dollar more and it is not hard to see why Andy Yen’s message was received as it was.

My interpretation is reading the tweet from Andy Yen as it was written. It wasn’t a nuanced position, it wasn’t a long text with many points and the context is pretty straightforward. But you try to make it seems like it was an intricate and nuanced position.

The post on Reddit following the backlash is simple damage control 101 as we see every week when a CEO does a dumb thing.

He has expressed himself in a way that was easy to misinterpret

Absolutely not. There wasn’t a nuance hard to grasp in Andy Yen’s message. It is a pretty straightforward message.

Look if you want to continue using the service, by all means do, but stop acting like other people telling Proton and Andy Yen to get fucked that they are exaggerating.

Corporations are fucking us over and being outright evil, and when one of their CEO comes out and spout absolute dogshit takes, people like you come out of the woodwork to tell people that it’s fine and people are overreacting. You gain nothing from sucking up to millionaire CEOs that don’t give two shit about you.

What’s the saying, “When someone shows you who they are, trust them the first time”?

Andy Yen showed us who he was and lots of people told him to get fucked.

Yeah because cozying up buddy buddy with Trump is a castle in the air.

It’s not like the guy was cooked on the spot and spouted an incohenrent sentence.

The guy took the time to tag Donald Trump to show him how he’s not like the other girls , wrote out his message and thought that this was good enough to press send.

There is a lot of deliberate actions that leads to this and takebacksies are a lot more difficult to justify.

In that case, there is a little space for interpretation and Andy Yen is clearly in damage control.

It is not little joe from Arkansas owning a potato farm tweeting that shit, it’s the CEO of a supposedly “neutral” company, that deals in privacy, tagging his buddy Trump. Shit like that can’t get a pass.

Lucky for him, there are enlightened people like you that loves the smell of fresh polish directly from the boot.

Stop bootlicking

From Andy Yen directly:

“[…]10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today, the tables have completely turned.”

There is no place for interpretation here, the message is clear. If he wants to back pedal because he got slinged shit, so be it, but it doesn’t detract from the fact that he said that the Republicans are now the party of the small guys.

Stop spreading misinformation

If by reigning in big tech you mean a cartel style system where companies need to provide funds to Trump to continue existing, sure. But there is no chance that the Republicans will reign in big tech : they are big tech.

You are leaving out the part where Andy Yen said that the tables have turned and the Republicans are now the party of the small people.

Andy Yen’s statement is downright pathetic and misleading. People are right to stir up shit because that’s the only thing corpos understand.

This isn’t a storm in a tea cup, this is the CEO of a company telling us who he really is and people choosing to tell him to get fucked.

Your post reeks of astroturfing.

What fucking risks you fucks? Hiring people with the wrong skin colors?

The news cycles since Trump won the election is fucking terrible. Every corporation is mask off and drop anything that might benefit the populace so that they go back to being cowboys and treat employees like shit.

I want to personally say fuck you to everyone that voted for Trump. I hope that you and all the members of your close circle that voted for Trump die a painful death, after being economically fucked out of any little wealth you have.

The world is better off without you cunts.