Translation: he thinks they're not fascist enough.
That is, unfortunately, what I think this means, too.
Peter Thiel's mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something
Good cop bad cop?
Probably. If I were Vance, whether the Never Trump thing was genuine or I was just a power hungry asshole, I'd be positioning myself to look like the sane one in the administration so that I could remove Trump via the 25th in 2027 and be hailed as the guy who saved America from him. I'd also be egging Trump and Musk on to be as terrible as possible as publicly as possible.
They sure don't understand irony, do they?
"... too much more power than me"
Oh hey, he's saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.
Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.
Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.
You don't understand. This is tech tribal war.
"Big Tech" is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.
Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them "Tech B".
Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.
And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.
They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.
And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.
Yeah, except there have been defections from Big Tech to Tech B, the prime example being Meta. Zuckerbot has gone and kissed the ring, and has shifted Meta to push more rightwing lies. And OpenAI has been Musk-adjacent from its start, so I'm not sure where it should go. And I'd use Xitter as the Musk example rather than Tesla, since Tesla's primarily a carmaker, not a tech company, despite its doing clever things with batteries now and then.
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If Harris had won, I think I'd want to hear Tim Walz' opinion on everything. In his own words, live on a stream or something like that. I bet it would've been absolutely wild to hear this Midwestern dad give his takes on AI.
Edit: grammar mistakes
Didn't Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta all donated much more to Harris than to Trump? It's more like he got elected despite the big tech influence. Which explains why he's saying against them.
I don't know how to link comments across instances correctly, but you should see the other comment in reply to the same person you replied to, posted 4 hours before yours. It answers the very question you are asking. From @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED
He's playing a part.
Yeah that is why he wants to stop it, so others can't use it to get elected. 😜
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nah, he's under Thiel
I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it's not gonna work. He's gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.
And what political relevancy was that, exactly? That hectoring poverty-porn book he wrote, that was like Horatio Alger sucking off Peter Thiel?
Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Remember how many moderate Democrats ate that shit up and anointed him the working-class whisperer? He wants that back.
Shame it's too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.
It's 2032. The Democratic ticket is Mike Pence and J.D. Vance. Their key issue is immigration, where they argue that immigrants should be sent to labor camps instead of exterminated. They are easily defeated by Trump, who's entire campaign consists of telling incoherent stories about celebrities until he trails off into a series of racial slurs. The Democrats believe they lost by being too soft on immigration, but they're optimistic that they can have a productive relationship with Vice President Benjamin Netanyahu.
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
Blink twice if you're locked in a tech billionaire's basement right now
Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)
Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)
Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)
Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
First true thing couch fucker has said considering Big Tech basically owns the Trump admin.
I'd say it's more a volatile coalition between Broligarch MAGA and LumpenMAGA.
Vance: But Peter, won't everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?
Thiel: Just tell them "tech people bad" or some shit, they'll be none the wiser.
The US night of the long knives has come
Or will it be more a defenestration-fest? Or maybe it'll alternate as Trump plays them off against each other.
Anti-trump tech bros start going out windows, I can already predict all the ways maga will dismiss the similarities to every person who disagrees with putin doing the same.
Well it's only been three people so far. That's not much of a pattern...
And on and on from there.
Something we actually agree on.
100% guarantee this pissfit about big tech is just because Musk is sitting where he thought he'd be.
I agree, but I also think the same about him (and he basically has no power until Trump chokes on a filet-o-fish).
Yeah, tiebreaking vote in the Senate doesn't mean.much when it's so heavily weighted on one side that a tie is impossible
Three senators need to defect from the R's for it to be a tie. It's not insanely one-sided. It's just that they're well-trained to goose-step in sync.
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