I’m not misrepresenting anything.

At least centrists didn’t have to abandon their support for genocide.

Anyone who trusts their data to a man who just performed two nazi salutes in public is a fool.

Kubelwagen enthusiasts?

Yup. I believe this is untrustworthy behavior and I regret signing up for proton mail.

And I ain’t buyin’ it.

It’s a bit more plausible when it’s all 4 digits.

Tbf I’ve put my birth year in my username before when I was a kid who knew next to nothing about privacy. I’ve seen other people do this too. So it’s not totally implausible.

It’s one thing when you’re a naive kid or a clueless boomer. It’s quite another when you’re the ceo of a privacy-focused company.

He’s younger than me, but there was a broad age range that all caught the internet around the same time. I’m aware that this is how it was once done. Usernames are longer now, allowing for greater creativity.

And this goober still uses his first name and an obfuscated 2 digit number? Yeah, he didn’t choose it because it’s his birth year.

Bloody Mary garnish.

Do you realise that this is a tautology? People who accuse people of being Nazis without concrete evidence

I didn’t put the 88 in his username. I didn’t force him to praise trump.

Or maybe he used his own judgment which is based on his own cultural background.

Stop hiding behind his cultural background just because it’s convenient for you.

Everyone knows that everyone should behave and say things that need to conform first and foremost to the sensibility of Americans.

If he’s talking to Americans and already stuck his foot in his mouth, he should have run this through his company’s PR department before making a username with 88 in it.

The assumption is that “everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi”.

That’s your deliberate mischaracterization of anyone who disagrees with nazis.

I wonder if you can even admit that both nazis and trump are shit.

He didn’t have to put it in his username.

That doesn’t mean he needed to put it in his username.

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.