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This one perplexes me as well. Even if the tech CEOs and crypto VCs thought Trump would be president for life, the guy is 80. It wouldn’t have lasted that long and a reckoning was inevitable.
Their thinking has been so short-sighted on this, much like their treatment of workers as they pivot to AI.
@carnage4life Had it not been for the gerrymandering, Democrats would have a lot more seats than they have.
Have you not seen the last decade of gerrymandering, antivoting right SCOTUS cases and industrial scale radicalization of media (online and traditional)?
Of course they thought there would never be free and fair elections. The GOP, techbros and crypto VCs have been actively destroying every part of the system.
And don't kid yourself about how free and fair 2026 was. A huge % are still gerrymandered, purged from rolls and/or caught in disinfo bubbles.
@carnage4life what wpuld explain it is the cynical belief that voting doesn't really change anything.
Tech bros grew up and lived in an era of always-growing corporatism. Why would they expect change?
@carnage4life it's in part described in The Nerd Reich book. How the tech elite turns right. It is described to be more or less Peter Theil driving it through... Corona lock down is also described as part of the story. Unclear how exactly though.
@carnage4life the intense fervor in the Silicon Valley set for *immortality* of some sort, whether through medical intervention or some sort of "virtual" immortality maintained on a computer, may help explain their inability to reckon with the general ageing of their whole set. Not just Trump but all of them ... Elon Musk is the world's oldest kid. they seem to think they're on the verge of annihilating Death itself somehow, erasing the distinction between past and present and future