They're mad because he's ruining their income, we're mad because he's ruining the country; we are not the same.
Fuck them.
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“When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."
What about his first term, insurrection and campaign and everything about and around him suggested it’d be anything other than a wrecking ball approach???
Billionaires have done a lot these past few years toward outing themselves as being just as stupid as any other random dumbass.
They are. They just lack morals and empathy. They’re incapable of feeling shame for exploiting other humans.
They were also all extremely lucky at least once.
I think that's the key. We attribute to them special qualities because we like to think in terms of cause and effect. But they all seem to have just been there at the right time with the right people and the right thing.
They show us there is nothing special about them every time they try to do something new and miserably fail. Think the money Meta spent on VR, or the way Musk alienated users and advertisers on Twitter.
We are basically beholden to lottery winners.
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"Annoyed"
Oh fuck off.
Fuck this comment hits hard!
With people like Peter thiel running this god damned industry, who also bankrolled trump, I feel no sympathy!
Fuck em all! You got what you thought you wanted!
Awww. Poor rich babies are annoyed. My heart pumps purple piss for them.
FAFO assholes.
My heart pumps purple piss for them.
I admire your commitment to the cause, but you really should get that checked out....
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My personal thought was "Aww, poor tech-bro capitalists are learning what the actual, obscene fundamentals of their antisocial ideology have always been, and that they were in fact not high-IQ genius technocrats knowing better than anyone else how to run mankind".
But then I realised they most likely learned nothing and will claim that they, themselves, would never have been so stupid.
Ok techbros and billionaires, either Luigi him or stfu. You pieces of shit tanked America.
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They're jangling their keys in front of the Democrats now to:
- hedge their bets in case of Trump unpopularity and a midterm loss and
- preclude any anti-corportist reform in that party after their blowout loss
Fuck every one of these "tech bros" in the article.
All these unprincipled fucks naming their companies after things from LOTR belies their complete lack of understanding of Tolkien and his morality. He’d fucking hate them all.
Palantir is pretty spot-on. It spies on everyone, is a tool of evil, and once used you never know who's watching and influencing you.
To be fair looking into these dudes I think they know that and like it.
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It's like they learned nothing from the first time he was president.
They all banked the first time he was president. It's all us regular people who got boned.
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Annoyed? ANNOYED? OH POOR BABIES.
Must be nice to be "annoyed" by what is going on right now.
The entire article reads like:
Bush:
There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me—you can't get fooled again.
The spin I heard was that he started saying it and halfway through realized he was going to create a soundbite of him saying "shame on me" and instinctively knew it would be better to flub the line and "aww shucks" it than to give a soundbite of him shaming himself.
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"Oh no. I did his bidding. He was supposed to hurt other people, but not me. Now I hate that guy. Feel sorry for me."
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Cool, so now the tech bros will stand up to them in the house and file articles of…. Oh wait, they don’t actually have any power in the government and will be able to do nothing to get the orange fascist and his South African goblin out of the place where they are doing IRREPARABLE harm.
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill
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"Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch. "
Lmao if you put money into TrumpCoin you deserve all your losses. Idiots.
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suspicions of cronyism
Are you fucking serious?
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Support a corrupt and utterly idiotic wannabe dictator.
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Make that suprised Pikachu face when the guy you support turns out to be an idiot.
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Lose money because of the idiot.
So do something then, other than just complaining about it.
Well, that was a quick honeymoon, did they get thoroughly fucked at least?
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I wonder how many of them voted for qon assholes like donvict for the tax cuts and to combat "DEI" at least a little bit (or at least dunk on the 13 trans people in college sports nationwide or whatever the fuck) but they didn't want the monkey-flinging-shit level of batshit insanity that donvict has been doing...
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Do something about it then.
"Even our most soulless plutocrats are wondering if the EU replacing all its US based services might be a result of current leadership."
Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment, in particular at the havoc the Department of Government Efficiency has wreaked throughout the federal government. "We were all on board for a more business-friendly presidency, but in the end, the whole industry of crypto and AI got rug pulled," says the partner of a top-tier venture firm directly involved in the Trump administration. "The people surrounding Trump are all scamsters. They are getting rich off our votes, our dollars, and our time."
Well, there was an unforseeable outcome. Trump was so known for keeping salubrious company in the past.
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Funny how it only bothers them when their wallet is affected....
Not so fun when you’re the ones being pumped and dumped
Oh please. They love it. They are drooling at the idea of ushering in violence and fascism. They’ve been preparing for the last decade.
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They thought he was going to go full deregulation like the first term, but instead he went full Nazi, but that's even disengenous, because the Nazi's had a plan, this is just oppositional fascism without reason.
Why does anyone think trump and musk will make things better for them? This administration only serve themselves at the expense of what's left of the future of America.
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Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment
Things are fucked up when private citizens criticize the government anonymously due to "fear of retribution".
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