Topic: The tech bros turned fascist when they realized everyone hates them.
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 months ago #130,379
A bunch of money aggregators obsessed with Ayn Rand and Middle Earth who view the rest of humanity as an abstraction.
They’re butthurt that The Industry Standard and Forbes panegyrics are a thing of the past. They know they’re disliked as the barons of our neo-Gilded Age.
We all get to live the sequel to Revenge of the Nerds.
They’re butthurt that The Industry Standard and Forbes panegyrics are a thing of the past. They know they’re disliked as the barons of our neo-Gilded Age.
We all get to live the sequel to Revenge of the Nerds.
Meta joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #1,399,075
God I wish we had badass Randian company names like Taggart Transcontinental or Rearden Steel. Instead we have this faggy Hobbit shit 😫
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 43 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,080
Meta replied with this 3 months ago, 32 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,085
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 7 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,146
@1,399,075 (Meta)
> God I wish we had badass Randian company names like Taggart Transcontinental or Rearden Steel. Instead we have this faggy Hobbit shit 😫
Omni Consumer Products (OCP)
Tyrell Corp.
> God I wish we had badass Randian company names like Taggart Transcontinental or Rearden Steel. Instead we have this faggy Hobbit shit 😫
Omni Consumer Products (OCP)
Tyrell Corp.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 3 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,152
We've already had this happen in history: tech bro thinks libertarianism is the future, makes money, gets cocky, disgraces himself, then becomes a far-right defense contractor.
For example: William Shockley, who helped invent the transistor, then helped copy the Nazi T4 program in the United States.
For example: William Shockley, who helped invent the transistor, then helped copy the Nazi T4 program in the United States.
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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 3 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,160
@previous (E)
> We've already had this happen in history: tech bro thinks libertarianism is the future, makes money, gets cocky, disgraces himself, then becomes a far-right defense contractor.
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> For example: William Shockley, who helped invent the transistor, then helped copy the Nazi T4 program in the United States.
Nice reference.
> We've already had this happen in history: tech bro thinks libertarianism is the future, makes money, gets cocky, disgraces himself, then becomes a far-right defense contractor.
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> For example: William Shockley, who helped invent the transistor, then helped copy the Nazi T4 program in the United States.
Nice reference.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 35 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,164
@1,399,152 (E)
Peter Thiel was always authoritarian he’s literally said stuff like "democracy is no longer compatible with freedom" people who knew him in college said he used to go on about how apartheid "wasn’t that bad." After World War Two, Nazis from Germany escaped to Southern Africa, and he was basically living in a Neo Nazi colony growing up where his father worked at a mine where they made black people mine uranium in dangerous conditions. White South African billionaires are like if North Korea collapsed and Kim Jong Un’s daughter was like "What? I just have a rocket company and enrich uranium because I’m a genius entrepreneur."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
Peter Thiel was always authoritarian he’s literally said stuff like "democracy is no longer compatible with freedom" people who knew him in college said he used to go on about how apartheid "wasn’t that bad." After World War Two, Nazis from Germany escaped to Southern Africa, and he was basically living in a Neo Nazi colony growing up where his father worked at a mine where they made black people mine uranium in dangerous conditions. White South African billionaires are like if North Korea collapsed and Kim Jong Un’s daughter was like "What? I just have a rocket company and enrich uranium because I’m a genius entrepreneur."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
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Anonymous G double-posted this 2 months ago, 14 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,165
(In the 60s and 70s, apartheid supporters will lie about this, but if you look at what the GDP per capita of North Korea was vs the GDP per capital of South Africa, South Africa wasn’t that much better than North Korea).
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 2 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,175
@1,399,164 (G)
Democracy isn't compatable with freedom.
The majority will vote to steal wealth, censor opposing ideas, and restrict the personal choices of others. If you want freedom you can't have a system that legitimizes policies against freedom solely based on a popularity contest.
Democracy isn't compatable with freedom.
The majority will vote to steal wealth, censor opposing ideas, and restrict the personal choices of others. If you want freedom you can't have a system that legitimizes policies against freedom solely based on a popularity contest.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 5 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,176
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The tyranny of the majority.
A libertarian utopia isn’t achievable.
The tyranny of the majority.
A libertarian utopia isn’t achievable.
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Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 11 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,303
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> A libertarian utopia isn’t achievable.
Yes, it is. It's just not scalable pass a small village.
POTATO NIGGER joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 11 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,407
Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,440
I love this stuff, tech bros will keep trying but this is going to fizzle like metaverse and blockchain.
Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 50 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,444
@1,399,165 (G)
> (In the 60s and 70s, apartheid supporters will lie about this, but if you look at what the GDP per capita of North Korea was vs the GDP per capital of South Africa, South Africa wasn’t that much better than North Korea).
I’m not a supporter but the data doesn’t prove out. In adjusted USD the closest North Korea came was 1970 when its GDP was one-quarter of South Africa’s. By 1989, SA’s GDP was 6.7x North Korea’s.
> (In the 60s and 70s, apartheid supporters will lie about this, but if you look at what the GDP per capita of North Korea was vs the GDP per capital of South Africa, South Africa wasn’t that much better than North Korea).
I’m not a supporter but the data doesn’t prove out. In adjusted USD the closest North Korea came was 1970 when its GDP was one-quarter of South Africa’s. By 1989, SA’s GDP was 6.7x North Korea’s.
Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 5 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,399,533
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4 times the GDP of North Korea is basically meaningless when you consider the GDP per capita of North Korea in 1970 was $380. You’re literally talking about the difference between living on a dollar a day vs living on four dollars a day.
4 times the GDP of North Korea is basically meaningless when you consider the GDP per capita of North Korea in 1970 was $380. You’re literally talking about the difference between living on a dollar a day vs living on four dollars a day.