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  • I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an attempt at the “out-conspiracy the conspiracy theory” approach.

    You know: when someone says “wow, you believe humans have landed on the Moon??”, you go “lol, you believe in the Moon???”

    Here we have: “Epstein was found dead in his cell, he was probably murdered”, being “out-conspiracied” into “lol, no, he faked his death so he can play Fortnite, his account was active a couple of days ago”.


  • They are that arrogant to not think they don’t have to try to make anything believable, the fix is in for them and they don’t think they need us in the reality based community.

    Then they wouldn’t try doing anything as convoluted as a faked suicide, they’d do what they did in 2008 - do a fake court case, drop all the most egregious part, give him a great lawyer, send him against shit-tier prosecutors, and sentence him to three years of house arrest to make all the bad things go away.


  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldStill alive?
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    Someone renamed their account to this after the latest release of the files.

    But, yeah, people will latch on to the stupidest stuff. Like, the dude ran an underground ring of paedophile brothels for decades generating kompromat for the top-of-the-top most important people on the planet, but it’s his Fortnite account that will unravel the whole thing… Come on, guys…


  • I agree that corporate capture of dems is real, but to paint the magats as being for the little guy is insane!

    You have to take the timeline into consideration.

    It was all written before Trump 2.0. At that time, and specifically regarding tech, Republicans had much more to offer the “little guy” than Democrats.

    Was it completely accidental, just because Trump was throwing a hissy fit? Yes. Did it end as soon as the big tech people started throwing money and praise at him? Also yes. But both of those things happened after the tweets and the comments were posted.

    Just read this. It’s a full analysis of not only the CEO’s comments, but also of what Proton does in general. They do not support Republicans.









  • How do you mean? How is starting a bunch of anti-trust and pro-consumer “hardly a point for anti big-tech”?

    The facts are these: Republicans, under Trump, started these processes. Democrats mostly opposed them, because they were defaulting to “Trump = bad”.

    The apolitical stance of Proton means that they don’t do that defaulting. If Republicans do something good for privacy, anonymity (lol), or consumers, Proton will approve. If Dems do the same - proton will approve. If Greens (or whatever the pseudo “third party” calls itself) does it - Proton will approve.

    That’s all there is to it.

    But we now live in times where people assume approving of “something XYZ did”, automatically means “approving of XYZ”, which is stupid, reductive, and destructive.

    For example, it leads otherwise sensible people to boycott an excellent product, just because its CEO said “the appointment of someone famously anti big-tech to a high anti-trust position in the DOJ is a good thing”.



  • you having a little trouble with the captcha there or is your government blocking archive sites?

    No captcha, just getting a “this website cannot be reached”. Might be because I’m on a VPN, maybe?

    As to the contents - I don’t get what’s controversial about any of this.

    Other than the obvious tribalism of “he said a good thing about X therefore he is against Y”? He literally stated why he considered Democrats to be anti-consumer (and… well, he’s right, the corporate takeover is a fact), and why he considers Republicans (at the time) to be more pro-consumer (which, again, was a statement of fact, Trump 1.0, due to his hissy fit against social media and big tech started quite a lot of anti-trust cases against them. The entire “block TikTok in the US” thing came from him).

    So… Where’s the controversy? What in these posts suggests that he’s MAGA?