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People somehow still surprised by Switzerland being neutral on Naziism
I don't think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He's Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that's why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.
That chocolate ain't gonna pay for itself!
Antitrust in tech is Nazism?... I get the joke but, what..
If a Nazi sits at a table with ten other people and everyone is talking cordially, you've got a table of 11 Nazis.
This mother fucker saw a Nazi and said "HEY BRO SIT OVER HERE."
It's not a joke.
To me this is complete nonsense.
It's absolutely possible to disagree with 99% of what a government does and still agree on a 1%, by coincidence or something. This doesn't mean "sitting at the table" in any way, which I think would be an overall endorsement. If that 1% would be use to fully endorse the government then it would implicitly mean the support (or at least passivity) towards the rest 99%. This is not the case.
Let's talk hypotheticals for a moment: let's sat Trump will actually do something and break up tech monopolies, google for example, or decrease their power and create a fairer market. In this case, saying "good policy" would make you a Nazi? For me, this is simply absurd, and it is very very similar to what is happening.
When you're praising republicans as being the party of the little guy, that's more than agreeing with 1% of the stuff that they're doing.
Same discussion as per the other thread. We clearly disagree on what is the scope of that "praise". As such, we will never agree.
Ok, maybe he wasn't praising republicans as a whole, but he did praise trump for picking a big tech lobbyist in a job in which he claims to want the opposite. "Great pick!" is a praise, you can't deny that, can you?
"Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote."
That's their official account complaining about the guy's daughters being lobbyists, not even him directly. Why is the appointment of Gail Slater, who worked the internet association (big tech lobbyists) and fox corporation, a great pick?
Yes, he did praise the specific pick. You are calling her a big tech lobbyist but -from what I understood- he praised picking her because she previously was involved in antitrust cases against VISA, google and Apple.
I don't know nearly enough about her to debate her history or actions, just repeating what I read.
Well, I guess we'll see. Maybe she'll do good as he claims