Ikr?? Did you hear about that one tech bro Nazi who wormed his way into the government?!
Or how about Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel? Did he forget about him?
Sounds like they want to limit “bad” tech companies but reward the ring kissers.
Upvoting you feels weird, but also KD Vances statement seems to have the opposite problem.
You're just stating the obvious. It would be like if some guy were saying "Our enemy has been breathing oxygen their whole LIFE!"
And everyone scurries around like "oh my god! That's less oxygen for the rest of us!"
And then some other guy, thinking he's revealing an unforseen statement says the most blatently obvious thing they could say.
"GUYS! I THINK HUMANS MIGHT NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE! THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT!"
Meanwhile I'm watching this all happen, and watching peoples reactions to everything, and thinking "I'm surrounded by morons on all sides. Which is worrysome, because I don't feel like I should be above the average line. I'm just some guy. I don't know things....but I feel like a 4th grader, in a school with no teachers, surrounded by toddlers. We're in trouble if I'M the voice of reason in this world..."
Carlin already explained this phenomenon before he died.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Then consider the fact that half of all people are even dumber than that!
And what about that Musk guy, too?
You must mean Ketamine Karen :D
Blink twice if you're locked in a tech billionaire's basement right now
AI Vance is giving interviews while the real Vance is locked up in Altman's $500bn black site. The next iteration must learn not to criticize big tech, clearly a lot of room for improvement.
I read that as Al Vance, not AI Vance. See in the first instance I typed a lower case L. In the second I typed upper case i. As in Al, being short for Albert.
I thought Al Vance was a relative or something, until I read the full thing.
Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)
Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)
Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)
Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
End the housing crisis! (By ejecting all the brown people and barring the CDC from preventing the next pandemic)
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED
Yeah that is why he wants to stop it, so others can't use it to get elected. 😜
Vance: But Peter, won't everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?
Thiel: Just tell them "tech people bad" or some shit, they'll be none the wiser.
Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.
Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they're cool.
All Big Tech is on their side though.
This might be Vance lamenting he's only Vice to the President, instead of Trump who gets to be Musk's VP.
Wasn’t he hand selected by Peter Thiel?
Which means he will likely be found not to be part of "Big Tech". For some reason.
Something we actually agree on.
100% guarantee this pissfit about big tech is just because Musk is sitting where he thought he'd be.
Their motives are nefarious anyways. Even if they admit the truth, the solutions they propose just tend to make things worse. Like how when conservatives admit climate change is real and end up becoming eco fascists.
You really don't, though.
You mean you want technology that serves the public good.
Propeller Cap over here is just pissy he hasn't hijacked it like a government.
We got what we want, now we vilify them.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right. Fascism.
I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it's not gonna work. He's gonna get cutb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.
Shame it's too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.
The US night of the long knives has come
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nobody bought the $JD coin 😢😭
They are literally pulling a Hitler/Putin. What the actual fuck. Have people in the party say things that that your opponents agree with just to give the illusion that the ruler is fair and has a wide variety of view points to consider.
This administration needs to be over last Monday.
I agree, but I also think the same about him (and he basically has no power until Trump chokes on a filet-o-fish).
First true thing couch fucker has said considering Big Tech basically owns the Trump admin.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
Big tech has too much power!
That's why we let them pay us large sums of money so that we let them do whatever the fuck they want. Apparently Facebook now blocks distrowatch links, one of the bigger sites about Linux, and Linux got labeled as something something evil.. this, of cout, has nothing to do with Microsoft, it's just totally coincidental
It's a Good Thing then that a Tech Bro didn't just buy the President Of The United States!
He's just jealous of Musk. He wants to be Trump's buddy more than anything.
Don't worry JD, this will sort itself out thanks to Zuckerberg and Musk driving people to alternative platforms.
These authoritarian populist tactics, after those people who voted for them (or will be able to vote) will say like "and you said that this person is bad!"
They use the same tactic in Russia regularly. When politicians destroyed life of millions of people, after some time one poitician in Duma will say the right thing or propose a law for popular social issue, like "we're against domestic violence" (domestic violence is common in this shithole), or on "elections" they will offer sausage or money for a vote to population.
I don't know what they are trying to achieve by that, but maybe that people will restore trust in them, and will continue to believe that "BS-democracy". And after that these politicians who support dictatorship will continue to launder resources from the country. But in Russia they do that because they need people to participate in pseudo-elections, that will legitimize their fascist regime.
Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.
Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.
That interview was interesting
She kept trying to get him to fall into traps or get angry but he was calm and respectful the entire time. This man is someone who can talk.
But his entire political career was purchased by big tech! Is he a malfunctioning robot or something?
In other words, he’s suggesting his pockets need a little more lining.
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