White. Male. And Yale. These bros have never actually worked for a living. They don't really know anything about tech. They just jumped into that market to grift because they were born rich and that is what they do. In years past they'd have been trading tea, or loaning money to poor farmers then taking their land
Big money will side with anyone that will lower their taxes.
Getting rid of regulations is also popular with them.
Karl Marx told us this would happen. Wealth ultimately will cut deals with other wealth, even evil, dubious foreigners, before giving up an ounce of it. They see themselves as the new aristocratic class, and unless you are willing to push harder than they are, they'll get their way. The last 40 years have been that happening slowly, now it's happening fast.
So.... are millions of Americans in the street protesting and fighting to avoid it?
No, they bought the lies the tech bros can afford to spew, so they are voting for this garbage...
On their information platforms which are now people's primary sources of reality.
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy" -- chorus of Sinclair-owned "local" TV news anchors
Point for the Sinclair garbage farm - at least generates a shared alternate reality. 😂 Also there are thousands of actual human beings that work there and directly generate this reality. So the chance you're gonna get dissent from the corporate line is significantly higher than when there's an algorithm in charge.
I feel like “capitalists aren’t left wing” is a lesson people keep having to relearn.
Easy: they like money. The entire ideology behind Trump is "he's rich and I can be rich like him too!" All the VC guys know they can manipulate him with very little money (for them) and get to keep/make more for themselves. He's only a true friend to the wealthy.
They like candidates they can buy.
We can stop them today by not using paypal, xitter, facepals, etc.
Just sayin’. The intractability of those things so easily deleted is the real issue. The vast majority of people are very much incurious when it comes to tech. They choose dystopia by default then wonder how it happened.
The people they are listing were known conservatives. I would say Trump removed all shame from people who were reserved about it before.
They saw the money Thiel made with no backlash and decided to follow suit
Marc Andreessen is such an egg head
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