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submitted 4 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.

Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.

Appointing David Sacks as "crypto czar" only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.

Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. "Everyone is annoyed," says one disillusioned founder.

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[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 73 points 3 days ago

They're mad because he's ruining their income, we're mad because he's ruining the country; we are not the same.

Fuck them.

[-] jessca@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

There is no greater joy than when two of your enemies go to war against each other.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

"Annoyed"

Oh fuck off.

[-] mrsjmccrimmon@feddit.uk 213 points 4 days ago

“When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."

What about his first term, insurrection and campaign and everything about and around him suggested it’d be anything other than a wrecking ball approach???

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 127 points 4 days ago

Billionaires have done a lot these past few years toward outing themselves as being just as stupid as any other random dumbass.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 76 points 4 days ago

They are. They just lack morals and empathy. They’re incapable of feeling shame for exploiting other humans.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

They were also all extremely lucky at least once.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago

I think that's the key. We attribute to them special qualities because we like to think in terms of cause and effect. But they all seem to have just been there at the right time with the right people and the right thing.

They show us there is nothing special about them every time they try to do something new and miserably fail. Think the money Meta spent on VR, or the way Musk alienated users and advertisers on Twitter.

We are basically beholden to lottery winners.

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[-] anachronist@midwest.social 22 points 3 days ago

They're jangling their keys in front of the Democrats now to:

  • hedge their bets in case of Trump unpopularity and a midterm loss and
  • preclude any anti-corportist reform in that party after their blowout loss
[-] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Fuck every one of these "tech bros" in the article.

[-] doctorschlotkin@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago

All these unprincipled fucks naming their companies after things from LOTR belies their complete lack of understanding of Tolkien and his morality. He’d fucking hate them all.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Palantir is pretty spot-on. It spies on everyone, is a tool of evil, and once used you never know who's watching and influencing you.

[-] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

To be fair looking into these dudes I think they know that and like it.

[-] Polderviking@feddit.nl 24 points 3 days ago

Tech leaders who once backed Trump

Once, meaning, until about two months ago.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 17 points 3 days ago

Annoyed? ANNOYED? OH POOR BABIES.

Must be nice to be "annoyed" by what is going on right now.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 135 points 4 days ago

Awww. Poor rich babies are annoyed. My heart pumps purple piss for them.

FAFO assholes.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

My heart pumps purple piss for them.

I admire your commitment to the cause, but you really should get that checked out....

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My personal thought was "Aww, poor tech-bro capitalists are learning what the actual, obscene fundamentals of their antisocial ideology have always been, and that they were in fact not high-IQ genius technocrats knowing better than anyone else how to run mankind".

But then I realised they most likely learned nothing and will claim that they, themselves, would never have been so stupid.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago

Ok techbros and billionaires, either Luigi him or stfu. You pieces of shit tanked America.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I had to laugh when I saw some dumbass posting some FB-level political magabrained copium about how gas prices are going down thanks to dumbass donvict.

And the amount of comments underneath it, thanking donvict for doing great things for America. The amount of absolute DELUSION out there, as well as the people that proudly slap that delusion up there on....checks notes....a site for building your network for your career for employers, co-workers, and potential clients/customers to see is mind-boggling.

I bet these same set of dumbasses will be all Pikachu-faced and talking about how they are being "censored" by Big Tech if they were to find out that people take a pass on hiring/doing business with a chucklefuck jagoff posting moronic political nonsense on a site for your career...they never seem to realize that free speech cuts both ways. They are free to express what idiots they are and others are free to disassociate with them because of it.

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[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Do something about it then.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 52 points 4 days ago

It's like they learned nothing from the first time he was president.

[-] Kbibble@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

They all banked the first time he was president. It's all us regular people who got boned.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 days ago

The entire article reads like:

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Bush:

There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me—you can't get fooled again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

The spin I heard was that he started saying it and halfway through realized he was going to create a soundbite of him saying "shame on me" and instinctively knew it would be better to flub the line and "aww shucks" it than to give a soundbite of him shaming himself.

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[-] i_dont_want_to 57 points 4 days ago

"Oh no. I did his bidding. He was supposed to hurt other people, but not me. Now I hate that guy. Feel sorry for me."

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[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 47 points 4 days ago

"Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch. "

Lmao if you put money into TrumpCoin you deserve all your losses. Idiots.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago

Cool, so now the tech bros will stand up to them in the house and file articles of…. Oh wait, they don’t actually have any power in the government and will be able to do nothing to get the orange fascist and his South African goblin out of the place where they are doing IRREPARABLE harm.

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[-] liverbe@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill

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[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

So do something then, other than just complaining about it.

[-] Venicon@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

suspicions of cronyism

Are you fucking serious?

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago
  1. Support a corrupt and utterly idiotic wannabe dictator.

  2. Make that suprised Pikachu face when the guy you support turns out to be an idiot.

  3. Lose money because of the idiot.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

They thought he was going to go full deregulation like the first term, but instead he went full Nazi, but that's even disengenous, because the Nazi's had a plan, this is just oppositional fascism without reason.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I wonder how many of them voted for qon assholes like donvict for the tax cuts and to combat "DEI" at least a little bit (or at least dunk on the 13 trans people in college sports nationwide or whatever the fuck) but they didn't want the monkey-flinging-shit level of batshit insanity that donvict has been doing...

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Well, that was a quick honeymoon, did they get thoroughly fucked at least?

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago

They thought they paid their dues and Trump would leave them alone after some token bullshit and some "campaign donations" but Trump's senile ass is causing them issues and they're sour about it.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

"Even our most soulless plutocrats are wondering if the EU replacing all its US based services might be a result of current leadership."

[-] ImADifferentBird 6 points 3 days ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It's just too bad that they "won" this shit for all of us.

Why does anyone think trump and musk will make things better for them? This administration only serve themselves at the expense of what's left of the future of America.

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[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Not so fun when you’re the ones being pumped and dumped

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

This whole article is "leapard at my face!" material

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago

Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment

Things are fucked up when private citizens criticize the government anonymously due to "fear of retribution".

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[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

WTF is up with these defense companies named after LOTR items?!

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[-] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Oh woe is me! Let's clutch our pearls and feel so sorry for the incel tech lords and crypto bros that brought this maniac authoritarian regime into power because now they're annoyed by his policies. Won't someone please pray for their capital trusts, mansions, nepobabies, and yachts! How will they survive with billions in property and means to escape when the little people tire of their shit and burn it all down?

Sarcasm aside I yearn for the day all these FAFO morons get utterly put in their places. Y'all got to ride high on extorting the working class and immigrant labor while you rubbed it in our faces. Fuck all of you, your lies, your fake unearned success, and your fake patriotism. Fuck all Nazis but six. Save them for pallbearers and when they're done burying the dead feed them to the dogs.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

The leopard ate my face. What the actual hell did they expect‽

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