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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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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 4 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 4 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.