A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It is scary to think that people with this much money and influence can be so unhinged - inciting others to make death threats to your city leaders, then proudly tweeting afterwards “I don’t care”.

    Claiming to be interested in funding schemes to solve homelessness, drug use and crime, in addition to additional police, seems kind of nefarious. What essentially boils down to arresting and manhandling individuals that have no money to their name doesn’t surprise me coming from a CEO

    I pretty much agree with the article writer here:

    Tech bros like Tan think they are reinventing whole systems, conjuring terms like “effective accelerationism” to describe their philosophy. But the ancient Greeks already put a name to their core ideas over 2,000 years ago. For example, there’s plutocracy, or rule by the wealthy, and autocracy, rule by dictatorship.

    CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      371·
      9 months ago

      CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

      It breaks their little heads that they can have all this money and power, and yet still a random poor person has the legal right to say “no” to them.

      They don’t understand why the state doesn’t work 100% just for them.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      They want to seize control of society from everyone else but they don’t want to feel like the bad guys or like it’s going to go terribly so they pretend it’s a new idea.