• teslasaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    225·
    11 days ago

    Why are there no reports and outrage over the pick of Gail Slater? Doesn’t she fit the standard outrage mold? She does seem to be pretty vehemetly anti-big tech. She has driven monopoly cases against VISA, Google and Apple. Surprisingly sober choice as assistant attorney general.

    If this is suppose to be “Full MAGA”, then i don’t understand where you draw lines.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      I don’t know enough about her to evaluate her fairly atm, but those don’t sound like the worst goals. It’s just assumption that she’ll be horrible because Trump picked her. I would like to believe it’s a blind squirrel finding a nut scenario, but that’s going to take time to see.

    • zqpsEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Are you… complaining that people aren’t complaining about her specifically? I don’t get it.

      • teslasaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        I wanted to shine the light on the hypocrisy of this post. Willfully ignoring information for outrage-fueled internetpoints.

        • zqpsEnglish
          11·
          10 days ago

          So everything about Trump has to be equally bad? She either has to be a horrible pick on principle, or you have to ignore of all the heinous shit that Republicans pull every day? That still doesn’t make sense to me. People criticize what they deem worthy of criticism. And just like one bad decision shouldn’t condemn a person, one decent pick cannot absolve Trump and the Republican party.

          • teslasaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            10 days ago

            And yet the public discourse keep deteriorating, no matter how often you remind people of how bad Trump is. People keep forgetting that most people aren’t “left” or “right”, but have complex views about many subjects. Voting on someone that acts in their interest is not equating them to the person.

            • zqpsEnglish
              21·
              10 days ago

              No one said that. But if you are willing to endanger other people’s rights and lives even further because it might economically benefit your already rather privileged ass, you deserve to be called out for that, and reminded that your customers might not all be as willfully ignorant and self-absorbed.

              US-style individualism “fuck you I got mine and yours and then some” is a cancer on society.

              • teslasaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                10 days ago

                You’re missing the point. Andy Yen’s point of view about the subject is that of a privacy advocate. Him seeing something being done to stop the bleeding of private data and commenting on that particular subject says absolutely nothing of his other political opinions. If the Democrats would have picked someone like that in that position, then likely he would have commended it too.

                Unless he’s a hypocrite too, but i would rather give benefit of the doubt since (can’t believe i have to say this) we’re just two randoms talking on the internet about a guy that none of us will, or have ever met.