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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I was about to post this one! have an archive link

it’s fucking incredible how mask-off this techfash shit has gotten, and it’s absolutely no coincidence that the CEO of y combinator is doing this shit so loud while the orange site keeps platforming bigotry. the San Francisco these fuckheads want looks a lot like a real life counterpart to the worst bits of hacker news

when I get the chance I’m going to pull out some quotes to analyze later, because this article is very nice as an overview of techfash methods (though it’s the New Republic so of course they don’t go as far as to call a spade a spade)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I know that crowd's politics are ultra-reactionary, and yet it's still fascinating just how few ideas the tech revanchists have that aren't "this thing is bad and should be rolled back". Do they have any ideas developed from socially acceptable principle at all?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What I'm wondering is when exactly do these people think San Francisco of all places got ruined by progressive politics? Six decades ago it was already the hippie Mecca.

I'm not saying SF is a bastion of radical left or anything, but it's reputation as one of the more progressive cities in the US goes back further than the idea of Silicon Valley, or Bay Area as a high tech hub in general.

Always the same thing with fascists, imagining some mythical prelapsarian past where SF was trad and based and everything was great.

It's not like you don't have plenty of options for more conservative cities to compare. But if any of this was based in facts, rightoids wouldn't need to play pretend with these bizarre descriptions of cities like Portland or Stockholm as blazing warzones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks for that. Really sheds light on the land of contrasts that is San Francisco.

It's easy to forget just how recent the spillover of SV to SF is, and that these tech giants are somehow still viewing themselves as the same scrappy countercultural garage firms they were in the 70s and 80s.