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All the more reason to give him hell for doing a terrible job. If you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen.
Dude unfortunately has no problem throwing a match over his shoulder when leaving the kitchen or even to return later to do so.
I think, everybody living in former Eastern block countries, in former East Germany, in former Germany in the 1930s/40s has a story of someone being gone after telling the wrong joke a little too loud. Sometimes they came back but they were different. Often they didn't. You do not know where that regime will be in three years, using opsec now probably isn't a bad idea in hindsight.
You should be careful to tackle the gaming community. There are many nerds and script kiddies who are well connected and who have little troubles to make your life less happy. Something which did not exist in the Eastern block, and especially not in Eastern Germany - remember: it wasn’t Eastern Germany where the revolts started against the regime! They just jumped on the train. Not few Eastern Germans are dreaming nowadays to have something like the German Democratic Republic back.
While you're not wrong, I hate this line of thinking - it gives them too much power if we start censoring ourselves because they might retaliate.
The hard part is finding an acceptable balance between good OPSEC but not pre-emptive compliance.