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Noah is a fucking rube.

Haha, you just know that in a remotely ideal media landscape anybody who is wrong as often as he is would be financially audited to see what shadowy billionaires are promoting him

Threads like this are why BlueSky is freaking amazing right now.

This idea of deciding which side you are on because of the way you are treated by or the quality of the people in that ‘side’ has to STOP. You support something or someone because you believe in the policies or ideologies. Anything else is best left to sports and entertainment. So inane.

The authoritarian support for corporate reform is entirely performative, no matter what Matt Stoller says

Besides, all the major players in the industry became older, more experienced, more cynical, and significantly richer during the last decade. “Tech world is progressive” was an Obama-era stereotype, not a historical constant

BRUNCHLORDS!!!! 🙌🙌😂

Aynholes and Nerd Reichers, the lot of 'em.

ayup

🎯🎯🎯

1/14/2009, or one week before the start of the Obama Admin is the clearest date to use.

Silicon Valley was only an ally insofar as they were startups Obama was signing continuous subsidies too. Now that they're established megacorps, Republican economics magically works better for them.

Is that Woke?

Remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil”? I wonder why they changed it…

He likes pretending to be a victim

Yep. They’re helpless children so as the adults in the room we must always be the bigger person. Fuck that shit. I resigned my role as family caretaker and I ain’t gonna take on millions of crybaby overgrown toddlers.

Trump and his team is the worst ever seen, but I still think that it’s not going to be totally catastrophic. Reality is a good constraining force, one thing is bullshitting in a campaign, another is dealing with the real world and its constraints. Let’s be optimistic here

Andreessen’s ridiculousness is astounding. Big Tech is mostly dressed up information gathering advertising agencies tuned to engagement, not values, as engagement = profit. And treating Big Tech as a monolith is stupid. Is Apple conservative? Is Microsoft? No, bc unlike VCs they play the long game!

Oh hi Marc. Why don't you tell them about all the times big tech broke the law...

"I didn't leave the Democratic party; it left me."

He was a progressive until WE made him otherwise.

whenever noah opens his mouth I suffer a major concussion

Also spies on you, shares that information with Trump and the government. Real allies there. Really nothing "progressive" about it, never was.

Marc Andreessen hasn't been on the left ever since the left figured out that crypto was a giant grift filled with grift.

They talked briefly about antitrust reform they barely implemented

They got billions of OUR tax money in subsidies, grants, and tax breaks👇 They operated without any oversight because they were 'innovating.' They bought presidency with OUR money, and now they are complaining that we are not nice to them 🤷🏼‍♀️ www.latimes.com/business/la-...

Love how Andreessen who admits being aligned with Republican thinking for more than 15 years is to believed on this topic at all…. Why not just ask an idiot like Marc Theissen for an unbiased take…

Also, Cory Doctorow gave us the word enshittification and that made it so much easier to identify it in everything they’ve done in the last 15 years. :P

"Big Tech" is just a euphemism for Elon Musk. I never understood why he appealed to my progressive friends. And I will never understand why bro dudes think he would give them the time of day.

Do you remember how progressive tech companies were back during Gamergate? Oh, yeah. I do: Not at all. Do you know the reputation that tech bros have for their progressive politics? I do: None at all.

An ally? Never.

I do not think I can roll my eyes any harder. What a load of BS, all the tech billionaires care about is making more money and buying more power. Who the hell do they think they are kidding? They were progressive because it is good for business.

i didnt do nothing to them... i was tied up with 'customer service' all year.

How could we have been so mean to social media companies when they were *checks notes* um, logistics managers of genocides around the world

Ah yes, those staunch progressive allies, megacorps

We should have been meaner

When the hell was the tech industry a “progressive ally”? Like those 10 minutes Google pretended to not be evil?

“We created rainbow branding for all our websites and people STILL think we should pay our taxes, the nerve!”

"The tech industry was a staunch progressive ally" Yeah, its workers still are, as evidenced by the data on small donations. But I'm sure that's not what he meant

Didn’t get everything you wanted = Treated like shit

I'm really curious to know what they consider support. Like, is not silencing us support?

Thanks, this garbage person is one of the worst anti-anti Trump scums.

And the vast majority of proposals to deal with "big tech" (many of which were bad anyway) went absolutely nowhere

When the fuck has big tech ever been a staunch ally to humanity much less progressives

Clearly the big takeaway is pseudo sanctimonious "PrOgReSsiVe" poser men are easily manipulated by #GreenTeaParty #Berniebro #Grifters like #ZypherTeachout equating #ElonMusk w/the entirety of BiG TECH in a POST ELECTION hit piece. 🤡 @karlbode.com @maxkennerly.bsky.social @sethabramson.bsky.social

Oh, OK Notice these billionaires From South Africa want to control media and power here? Is Soon-Shiong a crypto advocate as well? Funny, but aren't these the very elites that the Trump followers are supposed to despise?

Does making a Billion dollars in SV turn you into an Idiot Man-Baby? Or does being an Idiot Man-Baby make you more likely to make a Billion dollars in SV? The Eternal Question...

Noah Smith blocked me on X for supporting Ukraine. Otherwise I would have commented! 😂

I love how the real answer is just that the money spigot turned off.

Will being nice to this military spawned extraction machine help me achieve progressive goals?

Do you see what happened to the price of Marc Andreesen’s head in the last 4 years? (it’s funny you see his head looks like an egg)

Surface level analysis here but I'm always struck by how much this kind of attitude mirrors basic incel philosophy. "We were nice to you for years and when we tried to do something you didn't want you said no, now I'm blackpilled"

Wow I can’t believe Noah was wrong about something yet again If he got every opinion right from now until he passes away I don’t think he’d get over the Mendoza line

This is like a @chucktingle.bsky.social book title. Giant Tech Companies Pounded In The Butt On A Daily Basis By The Woke Mob Until They Are Forced To Become Republican Megadonors

It does & it doesn't for the writers. They are infinitely replaceable so first time they annoy the billionaires, they can be out on their butt. They must constantly be fluffers to survive or prosper.

The ride hail companies alone spent gobs of money and the better part of a decade in every state capitol possible trying to stop/slow any kind of regulation possible. Miss me with this haute take that is untethered to reality.

June 2016 re: Andreesen: “He supported Mitt Romney in 2012, and has been fairly outspoken on Twitter about his libertarian pro-business views on many issues, so the question wasn't totally out of line.” I mean obviously he’s progressive 🙄 www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

“Tech,” no matter how big or small, has no feelings. The stunted egos of the lords of “Tech,” however, seem to be imprisoned by their feelings (inadequacy, victimhood, jealousy, etc.)

The big lesson here is that rich people are mentally ill and require constant 24/7 coddling of their egos.

These companies intentionally targeted newspapers revenue, boosted hate speech - all for the $$$. They’ve never been an ally to progressives. They are the Walmart of the 2000s - destroying the neighborhood and not caring one bit.

The lesson we fail to learn is that you can't look to capitalists for *any* form of leadership. Even the ones that fund or advocate for the left.

And this is actually a challenge?

Lmao what do they think progressivism is? 😂 Ever heard of "eat the rich"? Does that sound like they want to be friends?

Also, I think Teachout is a big supporter of Trump's tariffs.

They should move out of the liberal places of the country to the non liberal places, not just move from blue state to red state but move to a red area in a red state. They can have their workforce recruited from the hillbillies and white supremacists. Let's see how it would work out for them.

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5, what is the value of Noah Smith’s thoughts? Didn’t he have to blog years ago? & Marc went on Rogan, is pushing conspiracy theories abt the CFPB (they’re debanking Trump supporters!)