What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united... - ThreadSky

arusbridger.bsky.social • 54 days ago

What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-states/69677/since-trump-came-to-power-cowardice-has-become-contagious

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davidknopfler.bsky.social•54 days ago

Bending over syndrome - alive and well. It’s so disheartening

jazzyj44.bsky.social•54 days ago

This picture never fails to enrage me! The crass arrogance and greed on full display.

nsandra.bsky.social•49 days ago

If those institutions are not independent and can not defend themselves and us how should a normal person do that and why give them than so much power?

adqadventure.bsky.social•53 days ago

Should #greatgrovel become a trending thing? It encompasses the collective cowardly actions so well

aster-verite.bsky.social•19 days ago

What should we do with such craven souls?
We don’t forgive... We outlast
Expose their names.
Annotate their silence.
Make their careers a case study in cowardice.

They don’t get legacy.
They get footnotes
in the chapter on how truth was delayed,
not by force,
but by fear in a tailored suit.

aster-verite.bsky.social•19 days ago

The oligarchs.
The tech bros and execs,
what do they all share?

They bet their futures on proximity to power.
They fear disruption more than disgrace.
And they’re not leaders.
They’re managers of managed decline...
servants in gold trim,
kneeling before the same empire they pretend to critique.

calladin.bsky.social•54 days ago

intrepidfool.bsky.social•54 days ago

Agree except for the first point. The tech bros are giving marching orders to Trump - not the other way around. Trump is the authoritarian figurehead in this fascist oligarchy.

kathleenreads.bsky.social•54 days ago

It’s the new currency
Chicken shit

notyourcomrade.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yeah. . It was weird to have all those protests yesterday and no Hollywood celebs trying to horn in on the action. Normally, they're front and center, all "Look at me protesting." Where were they?

bashthebox.bsky.social•54 days ago

They don't have morals, they only have greed. Trump promised them low taxes and no regulation, and they were thick enough to think that meant it was all gravy for them.

gaz254.bsky.social•54 days ago

Remember them all. The heads of Universities, the law firms, the tech billionaires, the Besoz & Thiel & Musk & others. Remember the GOP Congressmen & Senators who enabled. Leave none out after this lot are gone & investigate every one of them and every businesses they own. No government contracts.

cleemartin.bsky.social•53 days ago

People who have wealth & power fear losing it. Countries with less wealth disparity are far less vulnerable to these tactics because there’s less distance to fall- imagine the 1%-how detached they are- the fear of ordinary folk, of joining the struggling majority- Trump threatens that so they comply

withfire68.bsky.social•54 days ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

nonnanurse.bsky.social•53 days ago

Unfortunately, once you’ve been stained as a coward, it’s almost impossible to wash it off.

mynahleague.bsky.social•54 days ago

The fear of losing funds won over doing the right thing.

milehighlefty.bsky.social•54 days ago

We will not forget. Boycott these groveling cowards!

peterrschink.bsky.social•52 days ago

These institutions should have less fear of the wrath of one orange moron and more fear of the wrath of 340 million Americans.

caroline-too.bsky.social•54 days ago

Do you think that they’re afraid of Trump or the militias & trolls tha back him?
There’s some real wickedness around, but I suspect the people yo challenge merit a tad mor sympathy.

worldfamousdjfish.bsky.social•54 days ago

You have to remember that tech bros were nerds growing up, and were most likely the target of bullies. They're just going back to what they know: capitulating to bullies. If they stood up to their bullies like I did, they would know as adults that bullies are nothing but hot air.

pl3justice.bsky.social•54 days ago

It's simple. What if Republicans, Mitch McConnell in particular, had impeached him when given the chance. What if Republicans had chosen someone else as their candidate? He would never have run as an independent.

tm71.bsky.social•54 days ago

He WAS impeached. TWICE. Conviction in the senate would have removed him and barred him from this term. Also, the Dems have behaved weakly and still aren’t being as strong as they can. Demand they object to unanimous consent. EVERY TIME! Rs always obstruct Dem majorities. Dems need to do that now.

navi226.bsky.social•54 days ago

Going by subsequent actions of Bezos and the op-ed section of Wapo and the lad who owns the la Times, the tech lads didn't need to hold their nerve.

This was what they wanted

patriciabronson07.bsky.social•53 days ago

The billionaires know they can get richer under Trump. A recession will cause ppl to lose their homes and businesses and these bastards will swoop in and buy them up. That's their plan.

lucamenato.bsky.social•54 days ago

The holding of the line you suggest implies sharing certain values.
I am not clear if this assumption can be made of these "bros".
Unless, that is, you are talking about a shared penchant for eugenics and power.

tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social•54 days ago

Collective action wins. Devil take the hindmost loses.

crickwick.bsky.social•54 days ago

Just following orders

dgk66.bsky.social•52 days ago

I reckon we could take them

cloudbuster01.bsky.social•54 days ago

Hannah Arendt describes this with painstaking clarity in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Also the work of Robert Ericksen and others are a painful read these days: https://iupress.org/9780253060792/the-betrayal-of-the-humanities/

cloudbuster01.bsky.social•54 days ago

And this: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/complicity-in-the-holocaust/334DEEBAD59CE3C1044999C54BEA4770

beach999.bsky.social•54 days ago

Universities are governed by volunteer boards from every stripe. And the wealthiest board members always win the big arguments. For most ivies these are republican billionaires.

ashleywengaf.bsky.social•54 days ago

Conversely, what if they are all in and this is the America they have been waiting for and wanting.....🤷🏻‍♂️
Cowardice isn't the only feasible reason.

ijkoop.bsky.social•54 days ago

For the tech bros it’s now cowardice, it’s greed. They don’t nave a moral compass.

imdaviddunn.bsky.social•54 days ago

Wow, literally wrote an almost identical response. Way too many are ignoring the obvious because a bias toward wealth.

riverdaleboy.bsky.social•54 days ago

Flying monkeys, all.

mrhitch.bsky.social•53 days ago

They aren't cowards; they are something more evil...greedy and worship mammon. Adam Smith warned of those that tried to usurp capitalism with greed-buying Congress. We don't have capitalism with monopolies and cronyism.

steveknapp.bsky.social•54 days ago

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

davidfirn.bsky.social•54 days ago

And none of their grovelling will stop this happening should they fall from favour.

drbbbbbb.bsky.social•54 days ago

When they come for me I’ll stay standing

ritamather.bsky.social•52 days ago

Shame on them!!! Shame!! It won’t be forgotten!!

wanderingdutchman.bsky.social•53 days ago

But Big Tech took the knee...

sutherla.bsky.social•54 days ago

MAGA Make America Grovel Again

maria1962.bsky.social•54 days ago

Courage is also contagious

deke726.bsky.social•54 days ago

Off your seat and on your FEET!! It’s time to use our outside voices!

danarosannadana.bsky.social•54 days ago

Where is the critical thinking in these people!

lawrencemoratl.bsky.social•53 days ago

I would posit the idea that cowardice contagion is driven largely by greed -“If we don’t cave, the ones that do will get the money.”

tehroo000.bsky.social•53 days ago

Those tech bro will regain their nerve when they get close to retirement age and decide they want a legacy. Philanthropy is the last refuge of guilt and self-awareness for the ultra-rich.

donnachadhmc.bsky.social•42 days ago

What if Starmer stood by Canada, Mexico, EU & Greenland?!
Instead of bending the knee to new Republican fascist presidentiak administration?

per52oskar.bsky.social•54 days ago

WE EUROPEANS ARE PRAYING....

corraban.bsky.social•54 days ago

What is our Hose Reps and Senators had principles, weren't fawning Trump toadies and the biggest grovellers of all?

elissa4.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes but the key failures were by ppl in government. McConnell for leaving Trump in office after J6 and then not convicting him in that impeachment. Garland for dragging his feet on the criminal prosecution. They taught the populace and Trump that lawlessness has no consequences.

tm71.bsky.social•54 days ago

And they tried to teach us that it doesn’t matter what we say. There are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of us. A few of them. They are mistaken if they think they can just rule us. Ask Target how things go when we decide to stand up. And for that, all ppl had to do was just not shop there.

spoonsky.bsky.social•54 days ago

And the brave people are mostly the people without much resources, without much privilege, without much power. Like my colleagues and activist friends.

peggyonhopi.bsky.social•53 days ago

the thing that gets me is that they could walk away with their dignity attached and still live lives of tremendous outrageous wealth. I don't think there is any difference in their lived experience between what they earn by being complicit and what they earn by having a backbone. And yet.....

drosenstein.bsky.social•54 days ago

Tech bros were leading the charge. Don’t pretend the complicity was cowardice. They believe this is the righteous path, in their minds anyway, to a desperately needed Technocracy.

westernflyer2.bsky.social•54 days ago

This wrongly assumes the Tech Bros are not using him and his cruelty and idiocy for their own selfish purposes. Trump is an easily manipulated moron, they all know that. They aren’t good people - all billionaires are the enemy - we should be working actively to destroy as many of them as possible

alexis8.bsky.social•54 days ago

They are instrinsically cowards, this is who they are.

mlorette.bsky.social•53 days ago

pussies all

heavenlysky.bsky.social•50 days ago

#TheGreatGrovel

zegthedalek.bsky.social•54 days ago

What's worse for the techbros is that the courage of others shows their cowardice more clearly.

wappingbloke.bsky.social•54 days ago

I don’t think the tech bro’s were cowardly as such. They decided that Trump was better aligned with their goals & views. They were not left-leaning liberals caving to pressure they are selfish greedy egotists who became convinced of their own omnipotence and resented being denied their every whim

drbbbbbb.bsky.social•54 days ago

Isn’t that cowardice?

wappingbloke.bsky.social•54 days ago

No. It’s sociopathic and evil but cowardice implies they are doing something they don’t want to out of fear. These assholes wanted Trunp to come in and liberate them from having to worry about the impact of their actions on others. They might be cowards but they were motivated by selfishness here

zegthedalek.bsky.social•53 days ago

I think they fear / feared Musk would use his influence with Trump to stack the deck against them and in favour of X. It might mean they were left with < $100B each.

drbbbbbb.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yea almost as terrifying as a congressman not getting reelected.

drbbbbbb.bsky.social•54 days ago

I’m coming from the presumption that lack of principles, morality, and empathy comes from cowardice. There may be such a thing as amorality but that requires lack of consequences.

wappingbloke.bsky.social•54 days ago

I guess we have different understanding of cowardice. I am not in any way defending tech bro’s. I think they are far worse in this than those in academia and law who are caving

iangrant25.bsky.social•53 days ago

You know all about grovelling to power.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/11/21/snowden-leaks-and-public/

sickofthisbs77.bsky.social•52 days ago

American schoolchildren face gun fire for learning to read along with their teachers and staff. The cowards in positions of authority, law firms, businesses, etc., do not match the courage of third graders.

imdaviddunn.bsky.social•54 days ago

The reason they didn’t wasn’t fear. It was because they thought they could gain more power, and in some cases have.

None of these decisions were acts of cowardice. They were acts of greed.

antony-bof.bsky.social•53 days ago

Power is more important to them than democracy? What a good thing their grandparents didn’t think like that.

klberts.bsky.social•54 days ago

It look 3-5 million regular Americans on Saturday to show these cowards what bravery looks like. Maybe these idiots should pay attention.

petecurransghost.bsky.social•53 days ago

To be fair Perkins Coie, Jenner Block, and Wilmer Hale all did stand up to him.

PC succeeded because the whitehouse backed down. JB and WH's suits are still being heard

coopgrl.bsky.social•54 days ago

I am hoping the money grubbing brown-nosers see that no amount of groveling will protect them, and eventually they will grow a spine and rise up.

One has to hope.

karstengaertner.bsky.social•54 days ago

T-Mobile US - kissing the ring :(

The next day, they received approval for the takeover of the US cable network operator Lumos.

What else would these companies do for money and power

https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Telekom-Tochter-T-Mobile-beugt-sich-Donald-Trump-und-gibt-alle-Diversitaets-Initiativen-auf-scharfe-Kritik-von-den-Gruenen-article25684079.html

44-hamilton-8-wdc.bsky.social•53 days ago

What if some white people weren’t so targeted on racism? Couldn’t vote for the Black chick.

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