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...that probably don't even manage those companies and sit on the sidelines cheerleading about supposed progress that will end up making them obsolete and privileging other groups of people than them.
They're so caught up with sticking it to imaginary patriarchal figures that trampling on and celebrating the downfall and disadvantaged position of nonchad males is seen as progressive.
https://www.futuretimeline.net/forum/topic/22991-president-biden-news-and-discussions/page-3
They're so caught up with sticking it to imaginary patriarchal figures that trampling on and celebrating the downfall and disadvantaged position of nonchad males is seen as progressive.
^ That's something I wanted to bring up.
Democrats have turned to an alliance with Big Tech. But of course! Liberals seem to like the big tech companies, if not exactly their practices. Big Tech is presented as forward-thinking, progressive, entrepreneurial but socially aware, and fun.
Republicans have for a while now been staunch allies of the more entrenched industries— Wall Street banking and fossil fuels. Dems were also on this side once before, but they've holed themselves into certain causes that force them to sever ties with the fossil fuel industry (though very gently).
To the establishment, the GOP's backed industries are more "all-American Big Business" because this is what's long been glamorized and celebrated by the American bourgeoisie since the 1800s. When you think of Big Business, you think of bankers in suave suits, Name & Name big banking conglomerates, Texas oil tycoons, the children of Standard Oil, and the dirty workers on the oil rigs and in the coal mines— those rugged, masculine men earning an honest day's dollar through pure physical labor.
Big Tech, on the other hand, seems so much more distant and elitist. It's begotten of the nerds who got rich and talk about science fiction & fantasy novels rather than football and trucks. They all got rich in California, look like hipsters, and are still fairly young compared to the more moneyed classes, and yet they are fabulously richer. The first generation of bankers and energy tycoons goes back centuries. However, Big Tech only began in earnest in the 1990s— there were certainly tech, even big tech companies before then (think of the telephone industry), but the modern Big Tech was purely a Silicon Valley thing, and Silicon Valley's niche was operated by governments before them.
In just 30 years, this new big industry has supplanted the older and more established ones. If you're an All-American conservative or a bigwig burzhui, I can completely understand why you'd feel deeply hostile to them and deeply suspicious to a political party allying with them.
Big Tech was always just too "Democrat" in spirit for them. And for traditionalists and NRx types, Big Tech is an existential threat. High tech erases class distinctions— everyone has the same iPhone or Android; everyone listens to the same kinds of music; everyone can stream 4K TV; everyone gets the same thing because of the nature of high technology. It also emasculates men by reducing the need for physical labor (of course, this goes back to an ur-fascist sentiment that thinking is effeminate but action is masculine), among many other evisceration of traditional gender roles. There's a reason why traditionalists love making women wash clothes manually and dry them on clotheslines— washing machines and dryers "free up women to do too much thinking about their station." Smartphones connect women to others freely, which traditionalists hate because ideally women should discuss things only with their man and maybe a few friends he allows. And that general air of social progressivism Big Tech has: that's probably the biggest reason for so much discontent. They not only seem to care about social justice but have the money to engage in it.
Is it any wonder we get things like this being said:
Roger Stone calls for Trump to declare 'martial law' if he loses the election, and order the arrest of Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and the Clintons
Gee, you'd think if he were worried about elites engaging in pedophilic activities, he'd single out other industries first (like the movie industry or maybe even the oil industry).
But the truth is that the neoreactionaries really want to bust Big Tech to stop this movement towards technoprogressivism. They ostensibly care about government spying, but they'd be the first to enhance these state apparatuses once in power.
https://www.futuretimeline.net/forum/topic/22991-president-biden-news-and-discussions/page-3
