cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14962209
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1421688
This is one of the more disturbing things I’ve read in a while, and there’s a genocide going on.
It strikes me that this guy and his followers simply never grew up, because they didn’t have to. Instead of being faced with everyday challenges like the rest of us, their money could insulate them from any degree of hardship or friction. When you live a life where literally everything can be solved with your money, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to never run out of it, there’s no motivation for you to empathize with or even understand other people’s points of view, and thus this scary techno-authoritarianism is born.
These are the people who will prevent us from making any socioeconomic progress. They actually want us all to wear colored shirts and be discriminated against based on our color. Their dystopian vision is genuinely the stuff of my nightmares.
It’s comical imo compared to the actually dangerous religious fascism that’s currently threatening our democracy. Aww, litte baby tech bro wants to do a fascism, how cute.
These tech bros are not going to win over cops. It’s a ridiculous fantasy.
Tech bros are just gross. This is a particularly gross one.
Billionaire proposes governance system of corporate feudal fascism
Perfect summary 10/10
This reads like someone played The Outer Worlds and was like… “You know what?”
Fucking Spacer’s Choice.
Great summary lmao
The quotes in this article were some of the weirdest fucking things I’ve ever read. Is there something in the water in SF?
There’s something in the water. The air. The food. It’s lead. Microplastics. Carbon monoxide. “Forever Chemicals.” And void knows what else.
It’s poisoning the brains of people everywhere.
Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:
I’ve read history, I know what pure unadulterated humanity is like.
Getting our bodies clean (while important) won’t cleanse our poisoned minds.
Oh for certain. Humanity is a pox upon this planet. Hopefully mother Earth solves the problem.
Nihilists should help by killing themselves first.
Or you?
Tech bros are gross caricatures of real people. Imagine 35 years of social ineptitude plus billions of dollars.
The good news is they don’t have any real power, they just have power fantasies.
There’s always people like this in various industries.
What they are more than anything is self-promoters under the guise of ideological groupthink.
They say things that their audience and network want to hear with a hyperbole veneer.
I remember one of these types in my industry who drove me crazy. He was clearly completely full of shit, but the majority of my audience didn’t know enough to know he was full of shit, and was too well connected to out as being full of shit without blowback.
The good news is that they have such terrible ideas that they are chronically failures even if they personally fail upwards to the frustration of every critical thinking individual around them.
After reading, the gist of it seems to be:
- Vanilla far-right indoctrinated dumbo (his vision: “Reds” welcome, “Blues” not, “Anti-Blue Propaganda” on public view screens)
- Wants exploitative capitalism on steroids with companies controlling everyone’s lives completely
- Claims current capitalism is only bad because it’s “woke capitalism” which he claims the “ruling class” is pushing
- Wants tech bros to butter up police and give security staff jobs to their children as a favor, i.e. intentional social classism
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In short, just another out of touch entrepreneur who sells snake oil cures to people suffering in the current system, so that they may invite in the boot that stomps them down for good.
Always good ask him things like “who are they?” or “who is the ruling class?”
The techno-authoritarian Curtis Yarvin-type crowd have been around for a while. We can laugh them off or ignore them, but their biggest believers are billionaire man-children in the Valley and that will undoubtedly come to bear fruit in horrific ways.
What the fuck psycho-babble bullshit did I just read?! Are there not random sharks, orcas or other wildlife in the SF area that are hungry??
Hey, don’t mix orcas in with sharks! They don’t attack people. (their boats, close to the mediterranean, have not been as lucly lately though…)
Sharks have a bad reputation just because of movies like jaws portraying them as killing machines, but in reality shark attacks are extremely uncommon worldwide. They’re cool animals and the hate they get is pretty undeserved
If you want to look into shark statistics, here’s one https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/
Wait is this not satire?
I eat pretty sure at "Gray pride parade’
Grey suits. Where have I seen that before?🤔
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That’s good old fashion fashism.
America desperately needs to enact policies that put restrictions on wealth accumulation. There are lots of ways to do this.
So disturbing. How did we get here?
Reforming capitalism doesn’t prevent end stage, it only delays it.
It’s funny because he thinks that his status as a “gray” would protect him from the “reds.” just another useful idiot for fascism.
I couldn’t read the whole thing because I lost interest around the part where he starts describing Grays and their shirts—it’s all very dull because there is a complete lack of understanding on how different cultures established and evolved mechanisms for self-expression and self-determination. People wanted such mechanisms, which is why democracies formed in the first place, and why medieval societies became a relic of the past.
Even medieval kings needed ideals of honor, chivalry etc. to motivate others to knighthood. I think maybe this person is too convinced of his capacity to charm and believes that he’s capable of starting and leading a cult (which is what he’s describing, essentially). But if he was charming someone who’s never heard of him before would be inclined to find some kind of redeeming quality in his ideas instead of being repulsed by his lack of insight and knowledge. I mean, charming people (cult leaders, for example) have a quality where they just make you stupid by their presence. This person lacks the grace, charisma and any requisite presence for such an effect.
Also, what the fuck he is on about w.r.t MSFT? Look at Coinbase and MSFT, a dumb child can tell you which company is more innovative and valuable. This isn’t even a joke, it’s just sad that people are enabling his narcissism and delusions by letting him believe he’s smart or has good ideas. He’s definitely someone’s useful idiot.
