What benefit do all those who have kissed trump’s ring thus far get? All I know is that I’m not about to trust my privacy to someone with 88 in their username. I only signed up for proton last month because of trump. I’ll be leaving for another service for the same reason.
He’s trying to have it both ways though. He wants to support trump and then be like “nooooo! What are you talking about? We’re neutral!”
Yeah, with the same Swiss neutrality that doesn’t care whose teeth the gold came from.
And I am not defending the choice of 88.
If you say so.
You are good, so anybody who disagrees with you is automatically evil.
Nonsense. People of good conscience can disagree in good faith. People who praise trump and have 88 in their usernames are not people of good conscience, and I don’t think you’re defending him in good faith.
do not try to reflect on the fact you are projecting your culture on a Taiwanese person
They said it on an English language forum in English about an American president-elect. The account was two days old. If his judgement is that shitty here, it’s shitty everywhere.
Do not reflect on what’s the likelihood a normal guy, with a PhD in physics
Yeah, whoever heard of a PhD being a nazi?
who built a great company that protects millions of people is actually a Nazi, and decides to show it because why not.
Whoever heard of a techbro having nazi sympathies?
Sit on your absolutely simplicistic assumption, because this reinforces all your previous beliefs, and makes the world a much simpler place!
Nazis are shit. That’s simplistic. And true. And it offends you deeply.
He supported Trump’s pick. I know reality makes little difference for you, but still.
I know you’re defending him for two reasons. This is one of them.
Also yes, he put 88 in his username,
And this is the other.
which is not a crime,
No, it’s not a crime to be a nazi in the US. I hope it is in your country.
Correct, because a non US citizen communist republicans are my party.
I didn’t say republicans were your party.
I think it’s quite clear that I am also a Nazi, trying to cover my Nazi colleague Andy.
I believe you.
I would be perfectly happy with a VPN that was openly anti-nazi.
Also, it’s not “sitting there for everyone to see” because it’s binary.
Yes, obfuscating it makes it better!
Maybe it’s not your responsibility to compute the cabala horoscope for everything you do, and assume that people will be able to use at least the 2% of the brain and for example distinguish from a bold Nazi supporter with 88 tattooed and a guy born in 88 who appends 88 to his username (in a nerd way). But apparently not.
He supported trump with 88 in his username.
He created an account to speak personally and not from the proton account he uses before.
And he didn’t need to put 88 in there, or obfuscate it. And I’m increasingly certain that you’re freaking out and defending him for it because you’re happy that your political party is represented.
Unlike being a Nazi, nobody gets punched in the face for being a stoner.
Police have a long history of punching stoners in the face and worse. If you don’t want to get called a nazi, don’t do nazi shit with an 88 in your username.
I’m just saying that if a stoner tried to convince me that he had 420 in his username because he was born on April 20, I wouldn’t buy it.
If you don’t want people to think you’re a nazi, don’t say good things about trump with 88 sitting right there for everyone to see in your username.
The account is 2 days old. He knew what he was doing.
You are not very old, right?
You’re not getting my birth year this way, either.
But in the olden days it was the main solution to “such user already exists” problem,
The account in question is two days old. And it’s from the CEO of a VPN service. This isn’t him signing up for baby’s first AOL account back in 1994.
To be clear, I’m not arguing that people don’t put 88 as a clear dog whistle to white supremacists/general Nazi bullshit.
To be clear, anyone who supports trump is already nazi-adjacent enough to get no benefit of the doubt, and I don’t buy the “It’s my birth year” shit from any of them. Even if they were born in 1988, that’s not the reason 88 is in their username.
I also don’t believe that someone whose entire personality centers around cannabis has “420” in their username because they were born on April 20th. I don’t believe that some fratboy who is constantly making horny comments has “69” in his username because he was born on June 9th, either.
Look, I can’t comment on the significance of binary 88 in this instance with any confidence, but a lot of people use their birth year in their username.
A lot of people who like trump were coincidentally totally born in 1988.
“Chill, I was just drawing a meaningless distinction between my party and another part of my party with identical views!”
Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.
Can’t tell if you’re defending trump or gatekeeping nazism.
They don’t kick their nazi buddies out of their events.
Gee. Which side has all the people marching with nazi flags?
Which side never kicks them out when they do?
When was he born? Not everyone knows all the “secret” signs for stuff.
I don’t care when he was born. Who puts their birth year in their username? “Here, internet. Here’s one less piece of information you need to steal my identity!”
No. “ItS mY bIrF YeEr” is just what nazi shit says when they get called out on being nazi shit.
We only got a second trump term because the center wing of the party was so disinterested in opposing it.
Yeah. Just embarrassed to have lost a joust against a stationary forklift.
That doesn’t mean he needed to put it in his username.