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What part of this do you think is the fault of the “tech industry”? The tech industry certainly has its flaws and things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem pa
by sokoloff 1y ago
What part of this do you think is the fault of the “tech industry”?
The tech industry certainly has its flaws and things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem part of it, unless I’m missing a connection somehow.
- ddos27 1y agoPeter Thiel, David Sacks, Ellison and of course Elon Musk who funded the trump
- aisenik 1y agoIt feels like malpractice to leave Andreessen off the list, if only because he's such a good example of how losery and pathetic the tech moguls really are. Imagine becoming wealthy and powerful in an age of abundance off of NCSA Mosaic and throwing it all away because you feel threatened by black people and think that government funded research is now bad. That's the level of "advanced thought" in these guys' group chats.
- mittensc 1y ago[flagged]
- LtWorf 1y agoLol, quite convenient to blame trump on the evil dictators of someplace else.
- mittensc 1y agoelections worldwide, not just the US. They are trying to dismantle/weaken democracies everywhere. That they are not the only ones with the same intentions is not good.
- LtWorf 1y agoEvery large country is doing that everywhere constantly. It's not an exclusive of the ones you don't like.
- mittensc 1y agoHow does the US influence elections in Russia/China? Also, I care about my children not growing up in a dictatorship. As such, their manipulation affects me directly... You should too. You won't like being treated like a literal slave. Deflecting like this just empowers the same manipulation.
- LtWorf 1y ago> How does the US influence elections in Russia/China? Are you claiming the CIA doesn't exist? Are you claiming there was never any stay behind organisation? Are you claiming the entire continent of south america doesn't see USA intervention every time they vote wrong? I also don't like dictatorships, and USA propped dictators aren't any better than russian ones.
- nradov 1y agoAre you claiming that there's something negative about stay-behind organizations? Those are a critical part of defense and deterrence.
- LtWorf 1y agoThere's a lot of negative. Perhaps you could do some reading on what those organisations do before telling me how amazing they are? For example, being involved in killing prime ministers USA doesn't like that were regularly elected… https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizzazione_Gladio#Collegamenti_con_altre_vicende https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizzazione_Gladio#Collegam...
- nradov 1y ago
- croes 1y agoWhere does parent blame Trump?
- netsharc 1y agoAs some promiment commentator wrote (and I'll rephrase terribly), imagine if there was no Russian election meddling, then we wouldn't have those racists and "deplorables"!
- hansmayer 1y agoWho were the people in the front row behind the current president during his inauguration ceremony, I wonder?
- fastball 1y ago[flagged]
- scotty79 1y agohttps://news.sky.com/story/biden-inauguration-who-was-there-and-how-the-crowd-compares-with-trumps-ceremony-12193458 https://news.sky.com/story/biden-inauguration-who-was-there-... I don't really see complete ensamble of billionaire tech bro club here.
- pixxel 1y ago[dead]
- croes 1y agoYou mean the last non-authoritarian president of the US?
- myvoiceismypass 1y agoBush, the Clintons, the Obamas, Lady Gaga, Mike Pence, Hunter & Ashley Biden, Kamala & Doug. I think I spot the McConnell's too.
- bluealienpie 1y agoProbably the creation of techno-fascist state, or at least the desire to have one as outlined by Thiel and co. The excessive deference that all tech companies have had towards elected leaders instead of striving for independence under the law, and now they strive to co-opt government to achieve their goals.
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- whoknowsidont 1y ago[flagged]
- fastball 1y agoYeah, the entire tech industry is a monolith which collectively supports one platform or another.
- exe34 1y agoThe entire tech industry is roughly a dozen billionaires and then a bunch of nobodies.
- derektank 1y agoEven if you limit yourself to billionaires, I don't see how you can possibly blame Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook for the current administration's decisions to cut funding to science and basic research (among other bad decisions). The worst thing you can say about them is that some of them, after the election, essentially paid bribes to the protection racket that is the current administration. It would be more noble if they refused, but it's also sort of blaming the victim and either way had no impact on these decisions
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoThe people that proactively bend the knee before they are forced to are giving support to the bad guys. Cowards.
- exe34 1y agoIf the richest and most powerful people in the world who stand to gain the most from a self-coup are the victims... you and I have a very different definition of "victim".
- jakubmazanec 1y agoSome of the tech industry leaders were going all-in on Trump before the election [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562399
- isoprophlex 1y agoThe relentless disintermediation of, well, everything in society is powered by big tech. No middle class can exist anymore in the neoliberal turbocapitalist system that's trying to grow into place everywhere; there is just the little human puttering about, and a bunch of extremely rich oligarchs and tech bros taking their money. Technology made all of this possible. From amazon (destruction of local shops) to uber (not saying the old system was good, but who needs transit concentrated into the hands of a few) to google (monopolizing and stifling search and adtech). And who knows what role large scale manipulation by stochastic propaganda parrots will play.
- prpl 1y agoWell, among other things, the Vice President was quite literally a tech venture capitalist with all sorts of tech support (not that kind though)
- isodev 1y agoJust a wild guess: The connection is uncontrolled growth, where companies evolve from a normal business to a perpetual "increasing shareholder value" grift (think the Apples, Googles, Microsofts, Metas, (Space)Xs out there...). It happened when tech incorporated "the user" as a product (as opposed to tech working to actually solve problems and elevate the status quo).
- fastball 1y ago[flagged]
- isodev 1y ago[flagged]
- Larrikin 1y agoYour use of the word fuck and aggressiveness of your question indicates you know exactly why.
- fastball 1y agoAre the use of the word fuck and the aggressiveness separate aspects? And no, I do not know exactly why. In what universe is SpaceX a company that mostly just cares about "increasing shareholder value" and not literally pushing the boundaries of the human endeavor?
- croes 1y agoSo Thiel and Musk have nothing to do with Trump getting elected. Or Social networks as an easy way of spreading misinformation. New to the club AI that delivers convincing sound, photo and video „proofs“ for any fake news they want including elaborated texts fitting to their target audience
- 15155 1y ago[flagged]