Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Another tech dipshit, whose wealth allows him to exist outside the realm of reality, bending the knee to an anti-democratic felon rapist so he can get some handouts.
Pathetic loser.
Growing up, if you had told me half or more of America would end up elevating a rapist to the presidency and prostrating themselves at his feet, I'd have laughed you out of the room. This nation has sunk LOW.
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framing him as a "tech dipshit" is a mistake, i feel. though it's definitely true lmao
like all things we should use class to analyse their motivation, and in this case it's very clear - andy, like mark zuckerburg, elon musk, and jeff bezos, is simply looking after his own interests as a member of the ruling class (that is, the class that owns the means of production under a capitalist system) by ingratiating himself with americas new ruler.
these people will always look after their own class interests before anything else, and it's through class analyses that we can identify their motivations. here he's simply trying to raise his own status within his class.
Have we learned nothing of the whole "spend millions upon millions on YouTube sponsorships" debacle? Nord absolutely is hiding something from us.
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I genuinely don't see anything inherently suspicious about advertising through YouTube videos. Yes, there have been a few big name ones that were problematic, but that's going to be true with most advertising, I'd think.
The other big one coming to mind being the Scottish titles thing. Which, I never thought it was legit, and anyone thinking it made them a real Lord or Lady was foolish, but in Scotland it's illegal to subdivide property that much and sell it as souvenir plots of land. And people's coverage on the topic really annoyed me because they focused so much on some Scottish titles organization saying they didn't recognize land ownership as meaning you had a title, which, to me, is far less of an issue. Like, if you're selling me something and saying that it makes me very distinguished to own it, I know that's bullshit, but I'd expect to actually own the thing in the end.
Bill Clinton won reelection. Now, granted, he was not Trump levels, he was a piece of shit who at the very least abused his role and power over women. Now, even after me too, he's a beloved elder statesman. Just saying, the nation has sunk lower, but I don't know that's a lot lower than where we were when we were kids.
In a pre-me too world, I think Clinton's sexual abuse scandal was far too abstract for people to really grasp. I'm not saying it was okay, I'm just saying I understand it not affecting things. But I would've hoped we'd be correcting ourselves over time, not getting worse.
And bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Libya to distract people from the fact he couldnt keep it in his pants
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