Summary
Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.
Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.
Appointing David Sacks as “crypto czar” only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.
Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. “Everyone is annoyed,” says one disillusioned founder.
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.” -Winston Churchill
Allow several hundred years, population boom and bust crashes, and then there will be one brief shining moment where we too can have our own king Author
Awww. Poor rich babies are annoyed. My heart pumps purple piss for them.
FAFO assholes.
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.
My heart pumps purple piss for them.
I admire your commitment to the cause, but you really should get that checked out…
It’s an old saying from back in the day (70s to 80s).
Check out The Wire for reference.
Awesome show. Can’t remember that line though.
Bunk said it to a crime lab tech.
And just found out it was also in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, book 4, which I read wayyyy back when.
It’s the world’s smallest violin, playing ‘My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You’.
The leopard ate my face. What the actual hell did they expect‽
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.
If they’ll counter Musk’s primarying political opposition and stooges, you may see congressmen grow a spine.
Not really, either way the Broligarchs own the government. We might make them buy slightly less shitty politicians, but that doesn’t count for much.
If we even GET a free and fair election in 26.
My slim hope is that they start funding the opposition and current legislators to oust them. Things change radically when money is on the line.Sucks i have to pray to oligarchs but I don’t have any other short term optionEdit: Fuck this mentality I need to find a better path.
Crypto bros are just upset that Trump has brought his toxic brand to their grift.
“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???
Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.
His first term was pretty milquetoast during his term, at least in the ways that these stakeholders cared about. Yeah, he mucked with some trade relationships but largely backed down except for China, and China is a thorn in their side too. The economy basically looked similar to most presidential terms for the last 30 years (except for George W Bush, who had very subpar economic results). Yeah he did some horrible stuff and some incompetent stuff, but economically, his term was just fine (except for 2020, which derailed everyone).
The 2020 election, January 6th, and Trump’s continuing behavior in the wake of that, and the PJ2025 associates that swarmed around him should have been the sign that he was too dangerous to risk. However they could have still thought that Trump’s behavior was more of a show for riling up a base, and his second term would still give them a chance to have him shuffle off to a golf course while the big boys got what they wanted like usual.
This term, there just are no winners, at least domestically, and lots of losers.
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.
Yeah well I’m not saying it’s entirely luck, but luck is certainly a significant factor in becoming a billionaire.
Right place, right time, right resources at said place and time etc.
They’re not super geniuses better than anyone else, they just had a lot fall their way, and had the work ethic/psychopathic tendencies to capitalise on it.
In about 2018, I think, a team of researchers put together a mathematical model of how markets work. What they found is that wealth just naturally accumulates to a few people. It’s inherent to how markets work, and it’s more or less at random; in their simulation runs, every person started out in an equal position.
It’s all luck. It doesn’t even take being in the right place at the right time, although that helps. Since us humans operate on narratives and just-world fallacies, it’s really easy for us to construct a post hoc story about why a certain billionaire succeeded. But it’s all luck.
(I remember that I read about this research in Scientific American, but I don’t have the link handy.)
Here’s that Scientific American article. I keep it in my bookmarks because it’s one of the articles that easily disproves countless bullshit theories. Also an article my dumbass drumpf loving father refuses to read.
They see the way the wind is blowing, nothing more.
Well, that was a quick honeymoon, did they get thoroughly fucked at least?
They thought they paid their dues and Trump would leave them alone after some token bullshit and some “campaign donations” but Trump’s senile ass is causing them issues and they’re sour about it.
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.
Maybe, maybe not. This has turned out differently before. Here’s a tidbit from Homage to Catalonia (emphasis added):
But there were several points that escaped general notice. To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism.This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.
It’ll come down on if they like authoritarian control better than they like money. They’re getting burned on the money part, and there’s no reason to think Trump’s policies will make it any better in the long run.
But don’t count on them either way. They’ll still enact policies that are good for billionaires, not us.
People only like authoritarian when they get to be the authority. So these folks that are getting financially screwed also have no reason to believe they would get power in exchange.
It’s basically seeming like a bum deal all around.
This is my take. Once their bottom line starts fluctuating, they’ll simply find a new loophole to exploit so money keeps flowing, while slightly adjusting their fleet of yachts to a safer distance.
There’s no allegiance to anything. US is just the most convenient place to generate wealth right now.
suspicions of cronyism
Are you fucking serious?
“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
Things are fucked up when private citizens criticize the government anonymously due to “fear of retribution”.
Not so fun when you’re the ones being pumped and dumped
WTF is up with these defense companies named after LOTR items?!
You can blame Peter Thiel for that one
everyone wants to be the hero of their story.
it’s just that these assholes want to be the hero in their story, your story, my story, our story.
problem is, if you have to force yourself to be the hero in any story, you’re the villain.
To me the weird part is that one of LOTR’s main themes is that power corrupts.
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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.
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