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The Nation: Silicon Valley is fully MAGA-Pilled (www.thenation.com)
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Seeing a sudden surge in interest in the "Tech Right" as they're being dubbed. Often the focus is on business motivations like tax breaks but I think there's more to it. The narrative that silicon Valley is a bunch of tech hippies was well sown early on, particularly by Stewart Brand and his ilk but throughout that period and prior, the intersection between tech and authoritative politics that favours systems over people is well established.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So this is the reason behind the news of M$ dropping their DEI team...

I wonder how Bill Gates will cope with the fact that a lot of MAGA chuds are anti-vaxxers.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bill Gates

Just a reminder that he's not associated with M$FT dealings in any way anymore.

It's all mask-off for Satya though, he used to at least play a reasonable persona.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

MAGAts will still likely cry "fuck Bill Gates" a lot though, and might still have a hard time buying non-luxury (non-Apple) PCs due to that.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i'm sure a quick look at stock prices will sweeten the pill.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

If they're not getting horribly boycotted. After a certain point, MAGA chuds won't mass buy copies of Hogwarts Legacy style shovelware to dump it onto key reselling sites for cheap, to trigger the libs.