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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 6 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 6 days ago

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

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

"Annoyed"

Oh fuck off.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 52 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Kbibble@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Shamber@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago

But they really really didn't!

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 22 points 6 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
[-] doctorschlotkin@lemm.ee 25 points 6 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 6 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 6 days ago

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

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 days ago

The entire article reads like:

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 6 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 6 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.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah Bush had a lot of Boris Johnson energy.

[-] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 17 points 6 days ago

Annoyed? ANNOYED? OH POOR BABIES.

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

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

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

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 6 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...

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I just want Luigi released.

[-] aeternum 12 points 6 days ago

Luigi should be released, because he was with me at the time when he was killing the CEO guy.

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.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

You know that Carlin joke people like to reference that says to imagine how dumb the average person is and that half the people are dumber? Well apply that again and take the bottom half of the bottom half. Then sprinkle some of our anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-education, proud avarice and ignorance culture on top.

I Miss that man.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 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.

[-] ImADifferentBird 6 points 6 days ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Do something about it then.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

probably not delivering on his promises, giving them unfettered access with AI.

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Will they do something about it once their "tech" is wiped out? Their wealthy dissolved? Can they do anything about it once they're wiped out? (or will they be like the rest of us - unable to overcome the sheer weight of counter-computation we fight against now?)

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

Capital controls the government. Unless white house policy actually changes, this is a load of hopium.

[-] Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Who's ready for the new Trump salad dressing? Et tu, Jeff?

The world is fucked, but we're about to get the best salad dressing ever.

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