• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    Amazing how quickly a lifetime of being »anti woke« turns into a lifetime of being a Democrat when the committee chairs change. Silicon Valley doesn’t have political convictions: it has an API that checks which party controls the subpoenas. Karp just pushed a hotfix to his personality.

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    These parasites and their private wealth rely on the government more than the Post Office. They were happy to cuddle up to Obama, Biden, and Trump. Blood is blood.

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      They’re afraid of having their wealth seized and socialized. And they absolutely should be. It is the only way to fix this. Accept no substitute. These billionaires may believe themselves to effectively be kings, and the cannon may be the last argument of kings, but the guillotine is likewise the last argument of the oppressed, so I recommend these would-be kings consider backing down well before we truly escalate to that point.

      We’ve already made our latest move, and it’s very clearly colored blue, and that should tell these capitalist pigs something about the message people are sending about the direction they have been going. Whether they choose to heed the warning or not is their choice. They can pretend they’re going to be woke leftist democrats now and maybe that’s a step in the right direction. At least it would be if it were believable, but I don’t believe them, so they’d better start acting on it pretty substantively if they want to have any hope of convincing anyone. But that would require giving money and supporting social causes and stopping their relentless exploitation of people and the planet and I don’t think they’re ready to give in to those kind of woke leftist agendas, so are these guys going to trust that people simply have short memories and will forgive and forget what they’ve done and move on without a hitch so they can continue doing it, or do they have some plan to try to make that happen? I guess we’ll see, won’t we? It’s your move now, oligarchs. Where are we headed next?

  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip
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    Translation "Please don’t investigate how we make the AI sausage. You won’t like what you see and, legally, it puts me in a bad place. I can give you money!"

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    Pfft, these tech CEOs are just playing political theater. When Republicans are in power, they’re all about “YEAH YEAH! FUCK EVERYONE! WE’RE GOING TO HAVE DATA CENTERS IN EVERY CORNER! AI IS GOING TO DOMINATE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR CAREER! AND WE’RE GOING TO REIGN FREE BECAUSE NOBODY WILL BUY US SINCE OUR MARKET CAPS ARE IN TRILLIONS! HAHAHAHAH!”

    And when Democrats are in power, they’re like “Well, okay, we’ll behave and we’ll do what’s necessary for the betterment of this country. We’ll follow all the laws. Okay, okay, we’ll dial down our practices”

    Like fuck you…

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      They know regulation is coming and they want to be the ones who write it.

      Regulatory Capture. They want to eventually make it basically impossible for new competition to exist, cementing the industry into a handful of legacy companies who will eventually become massive tech conglomerates.

      See also: Tobacco. Telecommunications. Oil and Energy. Print media. Milkman. Paperboy. Evening TV.

      Be prepared for them to promote ideas that seem counterintuitive to their interests. They have now moved on to playing the long game.

      Social Media is currently playing the same game, too, and it’s looking like theyve found an unlikely ally in the porn conglomerates.

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    Someone needs to tell them that politics isn’t the ChaChaSlide.

    All of them right now: “To the left. To the left. To the left totheleftotheleft!”

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    " I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet."

    Oh, boy, that wording doesn’t sound familiar at all, no siree. Never heard anyone talk like that before.