He doesn’t get to blame them for not finding it funny.
He DOES get to blame them when they are so dense as to have taken him seriously, especially without at least checking his profile first to see if he’s yanking chains or not. Due diligence is needed for picking up sarcasm online.
This was a horrible time in our country’s history, and there are still people alive who suffer suffered because of the witch hunt. So yeah, some of us may be humor impaired or maybe it’s really about your utter insensitivity.
I had to spend a full day explaining that I didn’t literally want a second “Tea Party” when I said I wanted a “Tea Party, but good” due to Democratic fecklessness
Okay, then. Let's do a witch hunt. Let's have a red scare. Let's knock down some towers. Let's drop some bombs. Let's blow up a space shuttle. Let's do a Holocaust! But in a good way.
Don’t you know this is the internet where we only speak in definitives and have absolutely zero nuance, zero ability to decipher context, and zero historical knowledge ?! We all were born yesterday online !! Semantics is actually worthwhile and interesting!
Aside from the missed humor, implicit in this post is the necessity that pro democracy pro constitutional actors must get aggressive about reclaiming the righteous moral high ground from these criminal fascist and their cadre of villains.
LMAO. You should be the James Jesus Angleton of SV collusion. Speaking of [he was Mathieu Amalric's nom de guerre for his character on the show], I know you missed out on the Bureau but if you ever have the free time, that's peak Dad-core spy tv. Being remade right now as The Agency on showtime.
Though now that Trump is prez again, it's hard for me to get into shows where the premise is the US military or intelligence agencies, aren't trying to destroy themselves. Like - how I can watch The Agency and all this spycraft when we know China et al has the NOC list off of a Doge Tween's iPhone.
Can only imagine! I've often thought of creating an alternate personality ID on here of either 'most-literal-person-on-earth' or 'I-cannot-ID-sarcasm' to reply accordingly to see just how many people still engage unironically.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess that the Venn diagram of people responding to you this way and those insisting that congressional Democrats need to take a few pages out of Mitch McConnell's Obama-era playbook is more or less a flat circle.
Just because McCarthy was paranoid and mendacious doesn’t mean that energy of ferreting out terribleness is wrong! We will need dogged people to lead the work of fixing the damage done to our government in the last month.
Had some people start to advocate for kings around thanksgiving time and I called them out to their face "That sounds like a load of Silicon Valley nonsense, America threw out the kings with the tea. It seems they replaced Him with Little Kings.
For what it's worth, some of us have an increasingly dark sense of humor, and we all chuckled at this post (and immediately knew that some people wouldn't pick up what you were laying down). 😂 Thank you, I definitely needed a laugh today. ❤️
Well now we’re at a weird crossroads because most of the replies seem to be in on the joke. And by pointing that out, I have now cast myself in with the miserably humorless.
We aims to please. Watch me be totally rootless in my alliances if they can get peckerwoods out of office for good. I'm locked and loaded to make the change.
I have copied this and will use it for many responses going forward. Regardless of topic, political leanings, other worldly biases, this is a great response to so many things on social media.
Let's soften up the SV tech bros by reminding them that one day they will (if they're lucky) get old and then die, and that no AI app or robotics start-up will stop that eventuality or get them a girlfriend, and that they can't take $$ with them, and they share this fate with the unwashed masses.
Maybe a quicker, and more urgent way to start is just to point out who the Boers of Silicon Valley are, and educate the American people on what that means, and why they are the last people on earth we want to hand any authority to. #TheBoerMustGo
Just gonna say that's a weird reference for you, when McCarthy's big bogeymen are running our country and your employer, all to ruin American hegemony… and they'll be happy to let you ruin Silicon Valley in the bargain. Are you sure it's JUST techbros that are the problem? Nobody else anywhere?
I think it's obvious now that billionaires are not only greedy parasites but dangerous as well. It's time they were made extinct. There are billions of us but only a handful of them. We need to do anything and everything we can to bring them down. Starting now.
We can start by not using their services/products - find and promote alternatives. Dump their shares if you have any. Encourage others to boycott them and take any opportunity to promote bad propaganda about them, and do so relentlessly.
Feel free to add suggestions as they occur to you.
"You told me that you never read Marc Andreessen's essay 'It's Time To Build'. But a quick search of your Twitter history revealed at least three references to the essay, one of which was a link and the letters 'LFG!!!!' and the other two referenced the scam known as 'web3.'"
"When was the last time you gathered your entire company in a room, asked each of them to write down the names of the three smartest people they knew, and then demanded to know why those people didn't work at the company?"
“One of your colleagues testified that you made a sexist joke and then, after receiving pushback, defended yourself by pointing to the total lack of women on your team and suggesting that there was thus no harm. Do you still believe in this defense?”
How about a candidate that any one of the billionaires that are helping undermining the constitution, they get their assets nationalized, for being enemies of the constitution. But I would take a McCarthy against Silicon Valley.
"Silicon Valley ideology" is a project created, funded, and directed by capital. It is NO DIFFERENT than McCarthyism! Or Bircherism! Or the Tea Party! DOGE IS BUT A HEAD OF A CERBERUS. I thought writing that would make me feel good, Lord but it does not.
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other Silicon Valley 4chan tech bros are following the philosophy of Curtis Yarvin and seeking to either control or destroy the US and buy the pieces at a discount.
This video gives a pretty solid overview of their intentions. The craziest part is this is all in the open. They want to form technocratic city/states, run like corporations. Peter Thiel is also a major player, who is JD Vance’s mentor and largest benefactor https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
This introduces the principal characters supporting Curtis Yarvin, and benefiting from his advocacy, with video of them speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
I literally had relatives targeted by McCarthy’s HUAAC and I’ll get behind this. Turnabout is FairPlay imo, anything else gets taken advantage of in politics.
We decided to have an anti communist purge instead of denazification after WW2 and that’s half the reason these tech guys ideology exists.
And for the record, yes the allied powers also needed denazification after WW2 because 1) the Nazis had a lot of supporters in allied countries before the war, especially among government and businesses leaders, and 2) we imported a shit ton of poorly vetted Nazis after the war for their expertise.
I retired from a 40 year career in Silicon Valley software companies and I have to say my workmates were overwhelmingly liberal, even the adminisphere for the most part. Some nasty exceptions, of course. But OMG they are slaves to Wall Street. That's the worst part.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of LinkedIn
I have here in my hand a list of 205 employees that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of Y Combinator and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department
Local pols in sf have been speaking out for years. See city supervisors Dean Preston or David Campos. We have been raising the alarm over sacks, theil, musk for a long time, but were dismissed by others on our own party because those guys were registered as Dems at the time.
We are building a tsunami of micro actions that will become a force of nature as it crescendos. THAT is what we need to combat the technoligarchy, a critical mass of humanity that is unstoppable.
Join us! Tomorrow, 2/19/25, “Defend Funding For Public Research” national protest.
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I will become a total Chelle for whatever politicians decide to become the Joe McCarthy of rooting out welfare grifter, social justice, discriminatory, spending and the influence of Soros, Hollywood, etc.
Ironic twist to share: my father defected from Poland in the 1950's and went into the US Army to get citizenship but McCarthy actually took my dad to court claiming that he was a communist because he joined the Polish Boy Scouts. He got citizenship but DAMN! 🤔😮
Probably won’t help the fired government workers (I truly wish it might), but it will affect the companies that supported Trump’s campaign. Losing money is a big deal to their bottom lines.
We must take action on all fronts. This is a battle.
Unfortunately I think these tech oligarchs attach more importance to raw power and their bank balance than to ideology, national loyalties or ethics for that matter. I don't think western Democracies fully grasp the repercussions of this yet but it's becoming clearer by the day.
New messaging must take advantage of the impact that will hit Red AND blue states.
On Speaker Johnsons site principals of conservatism
Ind freedom / Limited govt /Rule of law/Peace through strength
Fiscal responsibility/Freemarkets/Human dignity
These are D principals!
I myself would not counter reactionaries with the same though the world has apparently decided otherwise. Nobody is screaming for measured thoughtfulness.
The end may not be near, but a new feudalism is looming.
A feudalism where pandemics and nuclear war remain as threats. There there's A.I.
Oakland and SF are considered sort of Silicon Valley, and their ideology and cultural contributions have helped make the Black Panther and revolutionary movement. Not sure you get Silicon Valley.
We’ll see if that holds. Releasing water where there wasn’t a need during the wildfire (that never would have had an impact) and the USAID removals would have a huge impact on those areas. I would say that those areas would be influenced by the RFK vote.
FACT- the BAY AREA includes San Francisco, San Jose, and the coastal parts surrounding it. NorCal extends all the way to Eureka and also contains some rural areas with hill people. The hill people could vote red, but they'll never make the numbers that count, and this graph proves NOTHING
I divert this notion, I value your opinions even if we disagree. We Shouldn't disallow the party’s shift of focus. AOC is the one forming a more prone sense. She's the one who does her job tirelessly not being sold out by lobbyists and Washington corruption. She's the major advocate sponsor for 2028
She's enabled an adaption to consist of determinate causes to shift her reliance on ending elitism Washington Mutualistic corruption. She can and will ultimately recourse reliance on the accuracy of accustomed friends of freedom. Her wit will involve passionately. I’m sorry you feel that way 🩵
Seems like the only joe mccarthy types are rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion while they steal every dollar they can find while hollowing out the government we pay for with our taxes.
You see, the tax dollars we paid were for running the government and was allocated by congress for certain needs the country has, Like the CDC, the FAA, the military, Medicare, DOT, VA, NOAA, NIH, Dept of Education, etc. We paid into it and expected it to used for us. Musk is stealing it to keep it.
I more fearful of Blackrock & Herritage Foundation, who are behind Project 2025, buying the RED SCOTUS, RED Congress, RED Propaganda "news", and the RED BILLIONAIRES controlling prices, rents, news, courts, law enforcement, and destroying democracy.
Yarvin's endgame is enslaving & killing Americans & democracy. Starts with: "Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant...replace them with our people..defy any court orders that tried to halt this partisan purge of the civil service. https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-j-d-vance-gets-100000608.html
I’d do that, but I already promised Chuck Tingle that I was gonna read a tingler as part of a talking filibuster and I don’t think you get tinglers without Silicon Valley influence.
I wonder how many younger folks including gen X have ever seen Joe McCarthy in hearings. Old black and white film. He was a nasty sum bitch. He hated Everyone!
Is all you had to know about that lying gross mother fucker: he was a typical RepubliCON that ruined many peoples lives! He was the hero of every RepubliCON until even they as corrupt and Nazi as could be , turned on him! Now his gravesite is just used to piss on
Joe McCarthy got a huge boost when he became the pet cause of Walter Winchell, so this might be something you could personally make happen. Got anybody you like that we should pay more attention to?
Or Bernie Sanders. Paul Wellstone would've been enormously involved in the pushback if W or his Pop hadn't arranged for his tragic plane crash a week before his sure bet 3rd term as MN Senator - D.
Bernie would have been a great President if the damn Democratic Primary elections were done completely naturally without old guards laying extra obstacles in his way.
We both have strong resentments toward The Corporate Democrats try to not get Sanders as the Democratic Presidential nominee and also another big resentment is U.S. 2000 presidential election that Al Gore could have won already like 2 terms but instead the Supreme courts gave the victory to W. Bush.
Corporate Democrats are so similar to RINO Republicans it is disgusting. Plus, they cannot win elections against Fascists. It's clear we need Progressives to take over the Democratic Party.
Not to mention the Democratic Party never wins that State, so this means the Primary elections do not reflect the General elections. But overall, I think all 50 States should vote on the same damn day.
The forces of darkness are massing. We all feel it. Everywhere, evil is filling the void left by apathy. Lies are smothering truth. Shameless men manipulate the stupid. Greed prevails over honor & duty. The weak bow down but you must not! To stop Trump we must show our determination & his weakness.
👆👆👆👆 This! Go visit The Nerd Reich website and read. Then read some articles/interviews on Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel in Politico, NYT, Vanity Fair (2022) and elsewhere. Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes on this. Put Project 2025, Tech bro mindset and MAGA together. That's what we're facing.
yes! and quickly! please come check out what we're doing over here. I have a plan, but it takes a lot of people who understand the high level importance of bringing Yarvin/Thiel NRx, ect out into the public conversation by pressuring hi-vis accounts with small comments from many people. NECESSARY!
They have taken Ayn Rand to the next level of kleptocracy and fascism. Like the anti-heroes of a sci fi fiction, they are actively participating in the destruction of democracy for personal gain. They can take their crappy crypto, plastic surgery, wrecked marriages and phallic symbol toys and go.
The next Democratic standard bearer needs to seize the message of tax reform - fairer tax rates, fewer deductions, and lowering, not raising the floor for estate taxes. It will cost that candidate donations from fat cat Dem donors but will energize the grass roots.
The revenge of the nerds timeline we are on right now really sucks. Can we get rid of the PayPal mafia please. They can go to Mars now and take their orange leader .
Been on to these people for YEARS, but I am a small fry. They are THE PROBLEM. Read up on #ycombinator and the writings of Paul Graham and you will see the tentacles of the entire internet and his dystopian vision everywhere.
"Regulatory entrepreneurs are profit-seeking entities, however; there is strong reason to believe they will use their political power to pursue their own interests, with little regard to other stakeholders or society." And here we are...
Lmao I totally get where you're coming from. The way things are headed I think future generations will look back at Trumpy the same way today's Germans look back at Hitler.
Surely there’s gotta be a way to convince voters in Nebraska & Wyoming & Alabama that it’s bad for California billionaires to embezzle their tax dollars
What a lot of us don't realize or refuse to admit, is that when a lot of us were smugly cheering on Silicon Valley for censoring the traditional Right, those same people are now gleeful that the techbros are unleashed on everyone else, and don't think it's their duty to help US now
Sure some cheered the idea but like... Did they ever even actually censor any of the traditional right at all? It took a metric ton of breaking the direct tos before any Alex Jones guys got banned and it took being pro slavery to get one video from Prager taken down.
Brother they literally couldn't run algorithms that banned Nazis outright because it banned every Republican. They got pitiful slaps on the wrist occasionally and acted as though it was a Holocaust. Meanwhile Left Wing accounts and groups get banned all the time and no one bats a fucking eye.
Banning people with a history of directly going against clearly outlined rules of engagement isn't censoring their ideas. There's been studies on this and social media kept a load of politicians on the whole time just because they were Republicans and they thought it would be seen as bias to do so.
Those clearly outlined rules of engagement weren't clearly defined, and when they were, it was awfully convenient that "hate speech" and "misinformation" was "anything that contradicts DNC talking points"
Holy shit. What PLANET do you live on??!?? Twitter allowed OPEN NAZIS back. Any Rightist milder than that was NEVER banned from Twitter in the first place.
Facebook has been the number 1 place for Conservatives for the entire time Silicon Valley was supposedly censoring them. Twitter was doing basic forum moderation of racists and Nazis. Right Wingers existed there perfectly fine.
The only right wing politician of note banned by Twitter was Trump. For trying to overturn the election. The correct call IMHO. I don’t think any other social media took any action against the right.
People came here because Musk stopped banning the Nazis.
Except for the fact that they (and FB which did similar) both allowed him to return and then went mask off on their own company cultures and attitudes. Kind of undermines your own argument, doesn’t it?
Also, we know it never happened because we heard "conservatives" constantly whining about how they were being censored. We couldn't go 10 seconds without hearing them snivel to an audience of millions, or more, on Twitter/Facebook/TV about how they're being cancelled.
They didn't push misinformation though. The article also discusses other types of censorship around limiting reach etc.
It's awfully convenient to claim "anything I don't agree with is disinformation, so it should be silenced," instead of having to actually refute that other position.
I don’t know man. McCarthy represents the worst of us.
I get what you’re saying though. Honestly, maybe we do need someone like that. I’m personally of the opinion that the best chance to stop this influence ended on the inauguration stage when the big dogs showed 100% fealty to Trump
And I will be right there next to you. We need a catchy way to refer to them/it. Let's workshop that idea— what do ya got? We could call it invasive tech ideology, silicon ideology, or even billionaire tech ideology. I was born and raised there so this feels personal, they've tainted my homeland.
Sigh. It could be argued that someone else already has adopted the late, disgraced senator’s bullying tactics. I would happily shill for a Joseph Welch, whose “have you no sense of decency” speech was the beginning of McCarthy’s swift descent into ignominy.
Oh pleeze. I went to a young communist meeting in the 60s for the free beer. Joe Kennedy was a Nazi booster as were some of the other oligarchs at that time. And no. The history is of communism in the US is in your face. It was a reaction to a number of things happening in the early 1900s.
Are you now or have you ever been a follower of the pernicious delusion promulgated by the erstwhile British philosopher Nick Land, current resident of Shanghai, China?
Government employees in Senate committees having a standard vending machine placed in front of them to see if they can resist talking about "innovation".
I totally understand your frustration with billionaires from Silicon Valley and elsewhere. But please understand that most of us in Silicon Valley did ok but are not billionaires! 70% voted for Harris. There is a big difference between us regular folks and the bros that have sold their souls.
There's also the persistent problem that right wingers think these billionaires are solution to what's wrong, but completely overlook the fact that they became billionaires in the "liberal hellhole" known as California. 🤦♂️ They want to get rid of our democratic republic, which will make things WORSE!
Agreed - the difference from 1952 is that this time the conspiracy is real, and it's the Silicon Valley billionaires and their tech bro minions who, at long last, have no sense of decency
It would really nice to root that out of the silicon valley! If the whole capitalism part wasn't there then everything would be better. Same with biotech, and ... every other industry based on ingenuity and creativity...
Who would have ever thought nerdy little Silicon Valley would turn its back on the country that made it what it is. Shameful what having money without a spine does to people.
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We need humour in these times.
He DOES get to blame them when they are so dense as to have taken him seriously, especially without at least checking his profile first to see if he’s yanking chains or not. Due diligence is needed for picking up sarcasm online.
If your joke requires beyond normal context, you’re doing it wrong. This was simply a poorly conceived post.
If you have to explain the joke, you’re doing it wrong. Sad he can’t just accept it and move on.
Silicon Valley bots are reading this and updating their algorithms accordingly. 😂
Even dark humor needs to be funny in there somewhere.
(/s)
Ezekiel 25:17 !!
The sardonic has lost its comical irony i guess.
Also it seems like a better idea than I got.
Seriously. If get to looking at my ideas as “good” we’re well past fucked
Still, a "McCarthyism but for something good" could be acceptable.
(trick question: everyone was really, really annoying in middle school)
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quite often. As brevity is often lauded, we could simplify it with
I must try it 😉
Fuck Joe McCarthy dead, you dim bulb.
Find another example. You know no one crushed by this SOB
Ironically (i.e. in the spirit of your post) I'm very much down for this, and would like to sign up as an informant.
Feel free to add suggestions as they occur to you.
And I, whoever gives our country #ScottishIndependence
“E/acc” sounds like the noise a cat makes before barfing.
And that SV bullshit is about as useful as what comes out of the cat after that sound
sloppy top via guillotines for wanna be kings! 😵🤴☠️💫🥶👾💘
https://youtu.be/mYrPNvVhKLU?si=8lT41Iz8Vpbj-K3s
"If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia." Curtis 🤢 Guy 🤮 Yarvin.😷1973-☠️
everyone should ask cgYarv what his fav way lil dick tator tots in history have been disposed of!?. 🪢🤙😵🗡️🔫💪💘👾🥶💫
https://youtu.be/rpEg4LS3CT0?si=07Z-zvDxZa2Cyatu
We decided to have an anti communist purge instead of denazification after WW2 and that’s half the reason these tech guys ideology exists.
I have here in my hand a list of 205 employees that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of Y Combinator and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department
We can’t even feed the world - arrogant oligarchs
Join us! Tomorrow, 2/19/25, “Defend Funding For Public Research” national protest.
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there's a pretty sweet archive
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-and-the-genocide
We must take action on all fronts. This is a battle.
On Speaker Johnsons site principals of conservatism
Ind freedom / Limited govt /Rule of law/Peace through strength
Fiscal responsibility/Freemarkets/Human dignity
These are D principals!
https://bsky.app/profile/velvetundergrd.bsky.social/post/3lihxv7pipc23
* SCOTUS Citizens United, Scalia, appointed by Reagan
* GOPlutocrats strategized fascism for DECADES
* Crapping on their oath of office ~ total stooges in corrupt democracy
It took full on fascism longer than they thought to bring their infamy!
What a legacy!
The end may not be near, but a new feudalism is looming.
A feudalism where pandemics and nuclear war remain as threats. There there's A.I.
SF will be way affordable
https://abc7news.com/post/data-shows-political-shift-higher-percentage-bay-area-ca-residents-voting-trump-2024/15538720/
Make one of these 2028 nominees
AOC
Bernie Sanders
Marianne Williamson
Or we lose like 2024🩵
If the democrats care for the country we will leverage to elect them
Yeah, that's total bullsh*t, homie. AOC corrupt AF!🤣
Hate Joe McCarthy
https://substack.com/@anandwrites/note/p-157405776?r=34su9
The article (Oct 2022), along with added extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬
“Investor!”
A long crook emerges from stage left, pulling the interviewee away by the neck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
https://youtu.be/Az5dzXRRh4E
However, we need a few total IT geniuses to override what the multi-Baby Daddy is doing.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/2556/
People came here because Musk stopped banning the Nazis.
https://ballotpedia.org/Elected_officials_suspended_or_banned_from_social_media_platforms
Also, we know it never happened because we heard "conservatives" constantly whining about how they were being censored. We couldn't go 10 seconds without hearing them snivel to an audience of millions, or more, on Twitter/Facebook/TV about how they're being cancelled.
Nobody got banned from anywhere for fiscal conservatism, supporting the military, supporting small government, or opposing abortion
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/41547/pinterest-suspends-pro-life-groups-account-citing-health-misinformation
It's awfully convenient to claim "anything I don't agree with is disinformation, so it should be silenced," instead of having to actually refute that other position.
I get what you’re saying though. Honestly, maybe we do need someone like that. I’m personally of the opinion that the best chance to stop this influence ended on the inauguration stage when the big dogs showed 100% fealty to Trump
Bummer these sock puppet accounts are making their way over from Twitter.
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Silicon Valley's bottom is conservatism, pro free market capitalism, pro patriarchy, and that lead us here.
Also, discriminatory hiring practices.
But good to know
I shall reassess.
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