US media is so desperate for a narrative that ties Elon Musk’s interference in the US political process to China instead of his own obsessions or the interests of the tech oligarchy. The sinophobia is instinctual.
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Merry Christmas, Paris, or whatever Canadians celebrate. Just kidding. I love the TWSU podcast and System Crash. I have two stickers on my car. Apple because I’m a whore and the TWSU one you sent for subscribing. I was born and raised in Silicon Valley where I still live and watched it happen.
I didn't detect a sinophobic element of the MSNBC reporting I heard, illustrating instead how dependent Musk is on the Chinese market and the goodwill of the Chinese government, implying that he will influence Trump to act in his favor, even when that's at odds with the best interest of the US.
Same with the Tiktok stuff. I don't use it personally but I think it's stupid to ban it. I'm a lot less worried about the CCP than I am about US tech companies.
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Government officials should not have active business ties to them.
Honestly, enemy-of-my-enemy thinking is dumb. China doesn’t pose a really progressive alternative – it’s just broken in different ways from the West.