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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Knowing these guys a bit, I’ll slightly disagree. They were always regressive, and don’t actually have enough fluency to have a genuine political POV. This is why bullshit narratives that flatter them, like Yarvin-style neoreaction, could easily sway them. Then, rising worker power radicalized them.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Lots of discussion of this. Still think the best explanation for tech lord rightward lurch on culture war (trans rights, immigration, crime, etc.) is middle-aged white guy syndrome. They aged into the Trumpiest demographic. Income doesn’t explain it. Millionaires, $200K+ earners went for Harris.

Midatlantica
@midatlantica.com

This just underscores for me that Obama knew how to handle these guys in a way that neither Biden, nor Clinton, really grasped. He fed their egos, gave them some photo-ops, buttered them up in the press. A little bit of glad-handing can go a long way

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Musk was just one contractor and had a credible product at the time. It wasn’t an unreasonable decision then. The problem is a legal and financial system that let him accrue so much more power without accountability.

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Katie Cannon
@katiecannon.bsky.social

Privatizing space is insane It’s creating a state within a state And the problem is that we no longer understand that a corporate charter is just a law that says: Here you go. You have tons of power to organize our economy