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Understanding the MAGA-Tech Authoritarian Alliance

28 points by grg0 2y ago

therobot24 2y ago
If only it were that simple, Marc Andreessen's interview in the NY times put it best. The wealthy in tech were hurt by the anti corporate youth movement that resulted after the 2008 crash. They (the wealthy) didn't understand why so many employees were so against them, they then saw the Biden gov continuing that anti corporate stance as DEI and other initiatives to potentially control AI and crypto. The tech billionaires hitched their wagon to Trump as a way to 'survive' regulation and saw another opportunity to compete with each other through who had most sway over the most easily bought president since the teapot dome scandal.
- spacechild1 2y ago
  That may be true for people like Andreessen, who just put their corporate interests above everything else without much ideological underpinning (which is already bad enough). But then you have people like Peter Thiel who literally believe that Tech companies should rule the world. Operations like DOGE attempt to dismantle government institutions so that more power is shifted towards Big Tech.
k310 2y ago
Simpler: The rich can never have enough. "Too much and never enough" All the racist, misogynist and anti-trans stuff is just bait to get blue collar people to vote for tax breaks for the wealthy and no regulation, against their own best interests. They fall for it every time. Graphic says it all: https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg Wilhoit's law: [0] Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” [0] https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...
spacechild1 2y ago
Very important and spot-on analysis. Not many people are aware of the unhinged tech-authoritarianism ideology that drives people like Peter Thiel. It's crazy that so many people still think that DOGE is about government efficiency when it is obviously a scheme to dismantle the federal US government.

28 points by grg0 2y ago

If only it were that simple, Marc Andreessen's interview in the NY times put it best. The wealthy in tech were hurt by the anti corporate youth movement that resulted after the 2008 crash. They (the wealthy) didn't understand why so many employees were so against them, they then saw the Biden gov continuing that anti corporate stance as DEI and other initiatives to potentially control AI and crypto. The tech billionaires hitched their wagon to Trump as a way to 'survive' regulation and saw another opportunity to compete with each other through who had most sway over the most easily bought president since the teapot dome scandal.

spacechild1 2y ago
That may be true for people like Andreessen, who just put their corporate interests above everything else without much ideological underpinning (which is already bad enough). But then you have people like Peter Thiel who literally believe that Tech companies should rule the world. Operations like DOGE attempt to dismantle government institutions so that more power is shifted towards Big Tech.

k310 2y ago

Simpler: The rich can never have enough. "Too much and never enough" All the racist, misogynist and anti-trans stuff is just bait to get blue collar people to vote for tax breaks for the wealthy and no regulation, against their own best interests. They fall for it every time. Graphic says it all: https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg Wilhoit's law: [0] Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” [0] https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...

spacechild1 2y ago

Very important and spot-on analysis. Not many people are aware of the unhinged tech-authoritarianism ideology that drives people like Peter Thiel. It's crazy that so many people still think that DOGE is about government efficiency when it is obviously a scheme to dismantle the federal US government.