In case you weren’t aware of where Tobias (Tobi) Lutke’s views lay.
Shopify can go toss a salad.
Tossify my fuckin butthole
No jelly or syrup for them
Replies to a challenge that he’s just looking out for his bottom line with this:
Shopify is unaffected by all this.
The Canadian small businesses that run on Shopify are the ones that are not so lucky. They are the bedrock of our economy providing 70% of all jobs. We all ought to fight for them.
I’m dumbfounded. He must think Canadians are so stupid they can’t see the contradiction in this statement.
I mean you literally have Trump supporters there, including your premier in Ontario so…
Sorry?
Never underestimate the stupidity of greed at any level, though like floating shit logs the special ones stand out.
So… Are we supposed to just bend over and take it?
The fuck?
I can’t say I’m surprised though. Some corpo advocating for something that will help them profit? What a surprise.
The profits must flow
The line goes up
Ok so fuck Shopify too then?
Something like that.
Oh man, a CEO thinking this is a bad idea? That’s all the endorsement I need!
I wasn’t aware of this guy at all. ty. We should assume he’ll be bitching about our banking systems next (Trump’s next nonsense goalpost). Looking at his wiki page - absolutely sickening he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his tech work in Canada.
tl;dr - A German-born white billionaire douchebag techbro doesn’t approve of Canada defending it’s sovereignty and has no idea what the country has already done or is doing about the drug killing people addicted to painkillers, but has decided to loudly support whatever Trump says he wants, and to repeat the version of reality Trump claims.
It gets worse if you look into the their execs further. One in particular stands out…
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Scrolling Lütke’s Twitter feed, you’re likely to find a bunch of Shopify boosterism mixed with an embrace of far right-wing political ideas.
In recent weeks, he’s called for Canada Post to be gutted, positioned himself as “anti unions” that threaten his customers’ livelihoods, and opposed the right to strike.
He has also praised Trump’s threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada, stating that the U.S. is “within its rights” to do so. He has retweeted posts calling for social support programs to be cut because “Canada spends billions on illegals, asylum and refugees.” And he’s generally spread right-wing misinformation about the state of Canada and the world.
https://breachmedia.ca/canada-far-right-tech-billionaires-pierre-poilievre/
And citytv news didn’t think any of that was relevant I guess… jfc.
Aaaand down another rabbit hole we go. ty.
This is so bitterly disappointing, can one billionaire not turn into a complete fucktard please :(
Can’t become a billionaire without being a complete fucktard first.
The Shopify CEO was sucking up to Trump and his regime so Tobi can seriously fuck off
American here, yeah trade wars never lead to anything good, but neither does laying down and taking it. I’m more of the mindset of I will absolutely fuck myself over just to spite you if you wrong me, so I am 100% for Canada’s response because what trump(read Dump) is trying to do is wrong and I am 100% against it.
It’s not just about spite or fighting. If we don’t tariff back, our firms get fucked by American tariffs, unemployment increases, our society pays for a part of those tariffs. Adding Canadian import tariffs transfers reciprocate some of this to the other side of the border, and we then can use the revenue to negate the social cost of the American tariffs. Otherwise we’d end up in part subsidizing them.
Piss off you greedy fucks.
Basically speaking for PP here.
I mean, shopify’s entire business model is drop shipping overseas crap.
Yeah, stupid me, hitting first is the action actually leading to a good outcome. Duh!
I made an online purchase today and specifically did not use the Shop Pay option. Fuck Shopify. Fucking traitors.
God damnit Tobi…
