Two type-a jackholes bickering on the internet. Shocking.
People like them are just uranium. Put enough of them in close enough proximity, and things go boom.
"Seeds of Distrust in a Garden of Assholes" https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4
https://theweek.com/speedreads/861881/anthony-scaramucci-mea...
If I drank on Sunday mornings I could have gotten hammered having a drink every time Cokie Roberts said something was ‘unprecedented’ that Nixon did back when Cokie was getting started in her career.
Did Elon mention Mossad or the CIA at all? I didn't see that, he only mentioned that Trump is in the Epstien files as far as I know. Which I thought we already knew from the released address book and flight logs.
The Palantir infiltration of govt and surveillance will continue.
The whole demographic of the "tech" scene has shifted from products to finance, up and down the stack. And that's absolutely being reflected in the political cynicism we're seeing. Tech bros couldn't get what they wanted from a Democratic administration so they figured they'd just grease a few orange palms and get it from republicans.
What no one predicted, though, was the abject buffoonery of the whole process. Watching billionaire after billionaire get played, laughed at and discarded by a Trump administration that never cared a bit about any of the issues the VC set wants is just amazing. These are the people we're supposed to trust to guide us into the future?
I think that a discussion forum sponsored by a startup accelerator in a particular industry being biased to the interests of capital investors in that industry is a very good contender for the least surprising fact in the world.
That's exactly how Labor in the US defected to Trump too btw. Politics isn't political science.
This is also my problem with online discussions in the US Left. Politics is more than just policy positions, it also needs to focus on strategies, solutions, and coalitions. But online the only thing that folks seem interested in talking about is why the US can't implement some EU policy.
I'm not following at all. This seems like the opposite of "how politics works".
Lobste.rs is where stuff is actually getting done without much comment.
Anyway, I hope Musk did all this for the LOLs. That's horribly on-brand for him.
elon is easy, but Sundar and Bezos were just as weak and pathetic when it came to it.
Then I grew up. But after post covid boom layoffs and the last election, I realized it’s no different than any other industry including tobacco and oil who actively harm the public for short term gains. I hate that upper strata with a passion.
I don't think it's you, or me, or us. Tech changed, not us.
The tech industry ethos of the 1960's and 1970's was exterminated by the same get-rich-quick crowd that ruined real estate, broadcasting, and a dozen other industries.
No, not exactly, he is given orders how to run it. A CEO cannot go against the owners, he is just there as an administrator/bureaucrat. A CEO that doesn't follow the owners orders will stop being a CEO very quickly, just like any other worker that doesn't follow orders.
"Promised", boohoo. These people really don't understand what a society is and are operating at the level of toddlers to put it mildly.
If they ever manage to destroy many jobs by building strong AI, we will hear "We're experiencing a lack of demand".
When Trump is finally gone, there will be some very awkward questions asked of all those, tech-bros and others, who blindly supported his lies.
the awkward questions are going to be of the form ‘what the fuck did you think was going to happen’?
What makes you think that all the people who didn't vote not support him for President? There's polling that shows the opposite, that his margins would increase if the turnout was higher.
By definition, if they supported him, they would have voted for him. That's what voting is for.
If you're talking about the popular vote, only the people who vote matter. I'm sure there are people who didn't vote for Trump but who support him. Certainly a lot of leftists and erstwhile Democrats stayed home or voted third party because they were disillusioned with Kamala Harris, which implicitly supports whatever the status quo winds up being.
You can find polling that supports just about any narrative you like, but I don't think you can find much objective evidence that a significant majority of the American population supports Trump but most just didn't care enough to show up to the polls. Votes are the only objective data showing intent that we have, and they don't seem to indicate a sweeping mandate on Trump's behalf.