I'm not saying he isn't terrible. I'm saying he didn't show that he was until recently. The first I think we saw of it was the Thai cave rescue crap in 2018. All I'm seeing is replies saying "here he is acting bad 4 years later"

[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

there's evidence of his views going waaay back, they just rarely reached the mainstream...and now it's just obvious, so there's a lot of people genuinely surprised because he used to at least thinly veil his awful views.

but it was always there...

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

He was involved with paypal, that's how you know he's been pos for a long time.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What was historically that wrong with paypal? /gen

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

It's not a bank so they don't have to follow banking rules. Historically businesses and sellers have had a hard tome with paypal locking their accounts and refusing to release them. They've put countless people out of business because of this.