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The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco (newrepublic.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is scary to think that people with this much money and influence can be so unhinged - inciting others to make death threats to your city leaders, then proudly tweeting afterwards "I don't care".

Claiming to be interested in funding schemes to solve homelessness, drug use and crime, in addition to additional police, seems kind of nefarious. What essentially boils down to arresting and manhandling individuals that have no money to their name doesn't surprise me coming from a CEO

I pretty much agree with the article writer here:

Tech bros like Tan think they are reinventing whole systems, conjuring terms like “effective accelerationism” to describe their philosophy. But the ancient Greeks already put a name to their core ideas over 2,000 years ago. For example, there’s plutocracy, or rule by the wealthy, and autocracy, rule by dictatorship.

CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

It breaks their little heads that they can have all this money and power, and yet still a random poor person has the legal right to say "no" to them.

They don't understand why the state doesn't work 100% just for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Such logic

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

They want to seize control of society from everyone else but they don’t want to feel like the bad guys or like it’s going to go terribly so they pretend it’s a new idea.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

What the fuck is a "parallel union"?

One that advocates no protection, longer hours, and shitty pay?

Oh yeah, asshole. Thats what we working class want.

Keep getting hammered. Maybe your liver will do us all a favor and take you out of the game.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“We’ve replaced some pieces of that political machine—specifically, we have parallel media now with Elon’s Twitter, or X,” crowed Tan during a presentation at the 2023 Network State Conference. “Getting a parallel media was a key piece, and it wasn’t through voting. It was done by building.… [...]

Got it so parallel means privatised. He's a privatisation hawk.

What a tool. A cat would not even sit on his lap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Parallel means propaganda news outlet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Parallel means poopie

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These tech companies bring a lot of money to California but also produce some of the worst people in it lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These kinds of guys have been active in California since basically as soon as it was granted statehood. The Big Four (a clique or robber barons) tried to rule over the state with the wealth they built up with the Central Pacific Railroad.

One of them, Leland Stanford (of Stanford University), actually did become governor and eventually senator.

Another, Charles Crocker, invented Californian NIMBYism with his infamous spite fence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. It's funny because California is always depicted as full of liberals, commies, and hippies by Republicans lol. Just because there was some Beatniks in San Francisco probably, and LA is a big city and those tend to go blue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The summer of love lasted a few months. Then the hippies all went home and turned into yuppies. Fuck yuppies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

He donated $100,000 to the recall campaign against District Attorney Chesa Boudin

Least surprising donation ever..

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

On the other hand it's crazy that the richest city in the world is plagued with street crime - even to the extent that it disrupts delivery services, self-driving cars, etc.

I think Bukele put it best when he said that the public stuff should be the best. But that depends on enforcing the law well so that public transport and services aren't destroyed by a minority of criminals.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you maintain public goods for the good of the public you have a lot less crime. It's precisely because there is such extreme wealth that is not paying to maintain the public goods that we have the crime.

The people destroying the stuff are doing that because they have been robbed of a place in society and their futures have been foreclosed to them.

Building hostile anti-human infrastructure, housing that costs 60 hours a week to live in, and unaffordable food that the government subsidizes to make MORE expensive are all not so subtle ways to tell these people that society does not value them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean I live in Sweden and in my building we have problems with people damaging common areas, dumping rubbish, etc. - but nothing can be done because only the police have the right to review CCTV here.

That's the sort of issue I mean, just the actions of a tiny minority can ruin a lot of stuff - but it doesn't need to be that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It really is so much easier to destroy than it is to build.

And I agree with you, A little bit of vandalism goes a long way to mucking things up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is it though? There’s no border between rural Alabama and San Francisco. You don’t have to do anything but get there. And it’s a hell of a lot better to be homeless there than in Florida or Minnesota for purely meteorological reasons. Add in that one of the consequences of its vast wealth is that poor people can’t afford shit there anymore.

Wealth disparity creates crime. Especially crimes of protest such as the ones often plaguing self driving cars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

SF is rich but def not the richest city in the world.