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Why Silicon Valley Lost Its Patriotism

• scarface_74 2y ago
  How has tech lost its patriotism? If you call patriotism walking in lockstep with the administration, it’s more patriotic than ever. Now if you call patriotism not supporting a President who is unconstitutionally usurping power from the other branches of government after trying to overthrow an election four years prior…
  • nonrandomstring 2y ago
    Ah the slippery "last refuge of scoundrels", that we all believe we naturally posses. Once I was dissecting this unpopular piece of "duty guidance" [0], a stinking heap of twitching net curtains to obscure the beaten body of cultural identity based anti-terrorism. But at it's faintly still-beating heart was a "List of British Values" [1]. As I read this impressive list of British Values (remember), "doggedly never surrendering", "championing the underdog" etc, I heard God Save The King playing (or maybe that theme from The Archers) and tears of pride welled up.. and then I spotted the shtick... it's just all the good shit everybody believes their tribe should, and by-and-large does do. Americans have one too where they're generous and warm hearted simple folk... Did no one think to compare these self-assessed manifestos? It's the twisting of that into a list that your country uniquely represents and defends that's the bloody masterstroke of Patriotism. [0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guid... [1] along with some actually very good psychology and research on radicalisation
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• throwaway5752 2y ago
  A CEO who stands to get major contracts with a corrupt administration publishing a kiss-ass oped, shocking. The idea that the Palantir CEO, a billionaire because of mass surveillance, gets to dictate what is patriotic? I would be funny if it were not so grotesque.
• cc101 2y ago
  greed