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The argument for removing him isn't that he believes the "wrong things", it's that he actively worked to elect someone who acts in ways contrary to Facebook's stated goals ("give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together") and contrary to the well-being of portions of their employees and user base.

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Perhaps Facebook should remove password/id checks to encourage open borders?

communities doesn't mean access to improperly entering people. Try not to conflate the issue.

Half of Facebook's users are (probably) conservative, that is half the user base.

Still sound like you want your echo chamber.

That argument could have equally been made for the other candidate.

That does not make it wrong. If you want to argue that a board member who gave a speech for Hillary at the DNC should also be removed, you can make that argument.

To indulge you: what specific policy proposal did Hillary make and Trump oppose that would be harmful to Facebook employees or users, or contrary to Facebook's goals?

Hillary seemed much more keen to bombing brown people while Trump mostly wanted to disrupt their travel plans. She was also much more hawkish specifically towards Russian allies and my biggest fear from her was kicking off WW3.

Fwiw, I voted third party.

My best recollection is that neither one of them made any concrete proposal to significantly change the status quo on foreign wars. Trump did some handwaving, but no specific proposals. I could be misremembering, however.

If you want to be as cynical as possible any evidence you may have heard about Trump having ties to the Russians is evidence he would be less likely to start a nuclear war with them or continue the proxy war against Russia in Syria.

Trump specifically campaigned on withdrawing from Afghanistan as an "un-winnable" war. Since winning the election he has unfortunately doubled-down on the violence of his predecessors.

There was a somewhat popular interview where Bill O'Reilly asked Trump about Syria, stating if Putin helps Assad fight off ISIS, then Russia/Putin will own Syria. Trump basically said America had its own problems, if we go in we'll own it, why would we want it? Of course he reversed this after election too.

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