"The reason for the wholesale capitulation of Silicon Valley moguls to Trumpism is, in one way not that much different than the first wave of MAGA support – white people from rural parts and the flinty upper middle-class gated communities who wanted a strongman to say what they couldn’t say about the rise of a black president and his people."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny
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"The techy white rich guys are as afflicted with a sense of victimization as the supposedly victimized white rabble was before the 2016 win. ...
These tech cowboys, desperate for 'masculine energy,' clearly believe they are among the highest possible iteration of the tool-making human, with a direct lineage to Prometheus, or whoever shaped the first club or arrowhead."
#Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny #masculinity
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"Our era’s toolmaking apes, scornful toward the humanities, with little use for anything or anyone that seeks to teach community or encourage morality and social skills."
#Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny #masculinity
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Gemma Allen writes that Zuckerberg's "masculine energy" is tech's power play laid bare, because "Silicon Valley has always been a masculine enclave" and the claim that it's under threat by demasculizing forces is total BS.
#Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #misogyny #masculinity
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@wdlindsy I bet Zuckerberg is gay. “He doth protest too much”.
@Rworld We definitely have known from research conducted years ago now that the most homophobic men are also likely to be men most strongly moved by repressed same-sex attraction.
@wdlindsy not surprised. The most vocal homophobic men including evangelicals, congressmen… turned out to be gay or pedophiles.
