Post 9kikIOwRvUHUpK3jMm by anna@witches.live
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(DIR) Post #9kijwD8x6ygfrdKHom by dankwraith@monads.online
2019-07-10T21:09:10Z
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i used to think techbros made space for the far right because they were just naive, now i think a good amount if not most of them are basically cryptofash
(DIR) Post #9kijwdKXkVPL56wuUi by popefucker@cybre.space
2019-07-10T21:10:10Z
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@dankwraith wilfully naive
(DIR) Post #9kijx8dPMPuwAb0uhc by anomaly@radical.town
2019-07-10T21:15:52Z
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@dankwraith there's definitely at least some of this going on. I knew a guy at my last work who was basically just an apolitical/libertarian/centrist, but he told me about one of *his* friends who was literally a Neo-Reactionary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment) and referred to himself as such (as a "Neo-Reactionary Revolutionist"). So dude's friend was a crypt-fash. Naturally as a centrist he thought this was as acceptable as me and our other coworker being socialists
(DIR) Post #9kijymRCrIlPuI5bqS by dankwraith@monads.online
2019-07-10T21:11:37Z
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theres only so many times i can watch techbros go out of their way to cape for platforming fascists and literally never go the other direction before i start to wonder if there is some sympathizing going on
(DIR) Post #9kik08bNwEoiwBUvNA by auditorydamage@radical.town
2019-07-10T21:20:45Z
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@dankwraith for me, the tell is the number of times one of the mainstream social media platforms announces yet another technological solution to abusive behaviour, which is then promptly used to torment marginalized people while bigoted fucks laugh and continue abusing others. at some point, suspicion must fall upon some subset of the people coding and moderating these platforms.
(DIR) Post #9kik2Eqng2OKtdi4Rs by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-07-10T22:32:16.735655Z
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@dankwraith how did the computer industry end up like this?
(DIR) Post #9kikIOwRvUHUpK3jMm by anna@witches.live
2019-07-10T22:32:35Z
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@DJWalnut @dankwraith libertarianism
(DIR) Post #9kikIPZRaVTOmGIs9A by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-07-10T22:35:11.622105Z
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@anna @dankwraith I suppose I'm asking fedi for an essay, but why are they libertarians? Is in the influence of big busness? Is it that women were systamatically excluded for basically the whole time, including today? Something rlse? All of the above?
(DIR) Post #9kikpmSZVWL7K606BU by anna@witches.live
2019-07-10T22:40:13Z
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@DJWalnut @dankwraith its a few things but it mostly boils down to ayn rand and bubble economies with skills in high demand fetching high salaries/rivers of VC money chasing unicorns creating a particularly virulent strain of petit bourgeois white bro asshole who thinks they earned their filthy lucre
(DIR) Post #9kj0MC77A22tSysW0m by uncletrunks@shootjackdorseyinto.space
2019-07-10T22:48:14.291646Z
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@DJWalnut @anna @dankwraith honestly i think it's mostly that computer-literate people tend to not trust the state combined with white dudes tending towards centrism or "being apolitical" at best. most of these people are techno-utopians at heart and have not caught up with the times whatsoever
(DIR) Post #9kj0Mwixrdee1gwOOW by HongPong@mastodon.social
2019-07-10T22:51:52Z
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@anna @DJWalnut @dankwraith worth noting that a lot of notorious religious fundamentalist type violent terrorists are trained as engineers. Engineering as a discipline there is a bias against multiple meanings of anything, so they are more into apocalyptic eschatology, violent absolutism in mechanistic theologyThey didn't get liberal arts style educations where multiple meanings are relevant
(DIR) Post #9kj7g7qDSHCVgbQQ2S by hushpiper@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-07-11T02:14:21.697805Z
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@uncletrunks @DJWalnut @dankwraith pretty much this. I remember there being this very techno-anarchistic utopian ideology that appealed to me. I think 4chan crashed the ideal into reality, and then the big data sickness got into the industry. what remains of it is pretty strongly focused on the freedom of information and privacy parts of the original ideology, but that isn't profitable.
(DIR) Post #9kmVskrbB4QwYpVTP6 by static@patch.cx
2019-07-12T18:12:32.596783Z
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@dankwraith there's a weird overlap between selfish assholes, capitalists, and fascists -- that's how i define the right-libertarian movement and its adjacent "alt lite", & to a lesser degree the alt-right: selfish assholes !