Fun to compare this to the hyperventilating over TikTok/China. - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 286 days ago

Fun to compare this to the hyperventilating over TikTok/China.

Silicon Valley tech leaders are now openly embracing Middle Eastern oil money, giving Saudi and the UAE unprecedented influence in the U.S. tech industry.

“The Khashoggi era is over,” said a prominent venture capitalist. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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louisgridleywu.bsky.social•286 days ago

It's Puffy Bezos' rag, so YMMV with tech opinions.
Beyond that, add Kushner and TFG cozying up to the Prince for cash and favors and the UAE deals as a more interesting angle to consider.

gojira1000.bsky.social•286 days ago

But oil dollars are sacred money, not like that grubby communist scrip.

david-cornelson.bsky.social•286 days ago

I guess Hitler just needed to pay corporate America off and the Nazis would have won.

grandmabates.bsky.social•286 days ago

Them's the good kinds of despots.

kat86.bsky.social•285 days ago

Greed

hylen26.bsky.social•286 days ago

For some values of "fun."

careycuprisin.bsky.social•286 days ago

RIP the Khashoggi era

kurt765.bsky.social•286 days ago

Of course it seems obvious now that tech bros are enthusiastic supporters of authoritarians, especially rich ones. Is there some aspect of the world that's getting better? Why does everything have to relentlessly get worse, with this story just being the latest (so far today). Sigh.

hodag1977.bsky.social•286 days ago

The Saudis (& the Russians) know that some people worship money & will sell out their mothers in a heartbeat for a quick buck.

quasarfunk.bsky.social•286 days ago

Ask Shireen Abu Akleh how the "Khashoggi era" worked out for her.

kygosi.bsky.social•274 days ago

This is just good American capitalism.

zuuldaffs-pizzeria.bsky.social•286 days ago

VCs are the most amoral people on the planet.

Like, literally nothing matters but money.

kevincarson1.bsky.social•285 days ago

The US posing as a foe of terrorism, when it and the UK have been funnelling cash to Wahhabists for 90 years.
If not for the US backing the Saud family, Muslim Brotherhood and Mujaheddin, and Israel covertly backing Hamas, the vast majority of Middle East terrorism would not exist today.

azraelnewtype.bsky.social•286 days ago

Now that so many people who were pushing the TikTok ban have taken their masks off and admitted it was about breaking their Consent Manufacturing Machine it all makes much more sense.

scriban.bsky.social•286 days ago

Honestly, I would have been fine with some hyperventilating from DC about this.

sfaccountant.bsky.social•286 days ago

"Era" is a funny way to describe a brief period of nervous hand-wringing.

nkwiw.com•286 days ago

there was a Khashoggi era?!

nkwiw.com•286 days ago

christ 45’s own son-in-law took billions!

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