I am fighting the oligarchy, with the entire Fortune 500, every major newspaper, every major university, the national K-12 school system, almost every foundation, almost every government bureaucrat, an entire political party, and every international organization beside me. ? https://t.co/lQJilZsNEK
— Marc Andreessen ?? (@pmarca) January 16, 2025
A Call to Arms Against the Oligarchy: A Political Manifesto
— Marc Andreessen ?? (@pmarca) January 17, 2025
The oligarchy—a cabal of elites—has hijacked our democracy, exploiting the many to enrich the few. I am fighting to dismantle this system, and I am not alone. Across the American power structure, allies stand with me.…
funny, they never sent me one of these for contributing to democrats… pic.twitter.com/xjpanXSb5D
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 17, 2025
JUST IN: Bitcoin hits $102,000
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 17, 2025
NEW – Bill Gates is "impressed" and "excited" after meeting with Trump: "he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up."pic.twitter.com/pf9H94gJ3u
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 17, 2025
Ross Douthat’s interview with Marc Andreeson explains a lot.
From the tech bro perspective, Silicon Valley was a pillar of the Democratic coalition in the Clinton / Gore era that celebrated the internet and technology as engines of economic growth. This celebration of tech on the Left continued until Obama’s second term when the Great Awokening hit and a new wave of leftwing Millennial college graduates began to show up in Silicon Valley who were essentially Bernie Bros who supported both social revolution and an economic revolution against capitalism.
Gradually, the tech bros came under siege from their insane woke employees, activist groups and “journalists,” the EU, and finally from the Democratic Party itself which blamed Silicon Valley for being super spreaders of misinformation and disinformation which elected Trump. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, for example, were repeatedly grilled and threatened by Congress. Silicon Valley responded to the political pressure coming from the Left and Democrats by censoring the internet. The highwater mark was the COVID era and the deplatforming of Trump himself from the internet.
Emboldened by the defeat of Trump in 2020, the Biden administration went for the jugular of its tech allies in Silicon Valley: the Biden DOJ is trying to break up Google, the Biden SEC has sued Elon for the acquisition of Twitter, the Biden DOJ went after Tesla, the DOJ went after Meta and, most importantly, the Biden administration was vowing to regulate AI and crypto out of existence.
The view of people like Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski is that the tech bros are Robber Barons whose companies need to be broken up, regulated and destroyed. Kyle Kulinksi says that Marc Andreeson is a criminal who committed fraud who deserves to be in jail. Their “allies” on the Left have gone from being people like Al Gore to people like Kyle Kulinski and Elizabeth Warren.
That’s why the tech bros switched sides. Trump doesn’t give a shit about crypto or AI and is happy to take their money and put them in charge of these things in his administration. The only thing that Trump wants or expects from them is 1.) loyalty and 2.) for “America to win.”
Sam Altman needs to tell the Dems where to stick their inquiry into the rationale for his political contributions. Don’t they know this is protected free speech?
This is so funny to watch. The Dems were happy with tech oligarchs so long as they took the knee and submitted to their totalitarian program, like Zuck & Dorsey did. Now the libertarian Big Tech bros like Musk (OK he’s not a saint) have gone over to MAGA the non-libertarian Big Tech wing is scrambling to jump on the bus before they find themselves under it. The latter category include that disgusting Malthusian Gates. You will recall this is the guy who back in 2010 promised to limit population growth with vaccines.
Bitcoin at $100,000 puts Satoshi Nakomoto in the top 20 richest billionaires (he’s estimated to hold around 1M bitcoin). Given he’s a proud Deplorable from flyover country I’m sure he’s on team MAGA in some capacity too. Bitcoin was the most libertarian invention in the history on Man – a form of wealth that’s impossible to confiscate & which can be transmitted between any 2 people without the possibility of interdiction or sanction by anyone. I’d personally like to see Trump go full El Salvador and makes it US legal tender, so you could pay your taxes in bitcoin. All Big Tech is not equal and it’s real important to understand the libertarian/non-libertarian distinction.
Kulinski is such a hypocrite.
He loved the tech oligarchs when they were censoring the right and donating to Democrats.
But as soon as the oligarchs relaxed the censorship of the right and started donating to both parties, they suddenly became evil.
Kulinski DOES NOT CARE about economic issues, or foreign policy for that matter.
He ONLY cares about cultural issues. When it comes to cultural issues, he is a left wing extremist. He would gladly ally with Zionists and billionaires to censor and harass the cultural right. In fact, he has a long history of doing so.
People like Kulinski, the extreme left wing of the establishment Democrats, are the absolute worst faction in American politics.
The anti-establishment left has some good points, and so does the establishment right.
The anti-establishment right is the best faction in American politics.
The establishment left is irredeemably toxic.
Did I miss something?
Those tech people are as stupid as those young educated communists who were promoted by Stalin back in the 1930thies and who didn’t umderstood to the very end, that for uncle Joe they were only single use tool to make his purges.
I think that uncle Donald uses those useful idiots also only for draining a Swamp and dump them afterwards. When The Swamp is drained, then those tech moguls become from useful idiots to useless idiots. They have too small brains and too much money and influence. Nobody with common sense will keep such people for long time.