Now go on X.com and see whether this blog post is being shared and discussed amongst the MAGA Silicon Valley executive class. Taken at face value, this topic is completely irrelevant to them and you should see no mention of it whatsoever and therefore I am hallucinating things. But if you do see it discussed, then you'll also see a subtext of "See, Trump was right to send ICE to MN!", and thus patio has done his job well in the way I described.
replyThis is not a reasonable way to understand the world. It does not matter if facts are inconvenient on Twitter (why do you care about what's being said on Twitter to begin with? stop now.)
replyThis attitude, that if reactionary tech execs are sharing something on Twitter it must be bad to talk about it, is poison.
It's an extremely unfortunate and shockingly stupid way to understand the world, but not unreasonable, because it's a accurate reflection of how the world works at the moment.
replyTake a look at the situation "room" at Mar A Lago during the Venezuelan coup: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/trump-situation-room-photos
What's the main thing up in the screen? Fucking Twitter, because that's what the US government cares about and that's what drives their decisions. The Vice President follows an exquisitely curated set of groypers whom he endlessly tries to impress, the Secretary of "War" is obsessed with impressing Twitter losers with his "lethality" TED talks, they all get giddy seeing citizens executed on the streets, it just doesn't stop. Patio knows exactly the crowd he's playing to.
None of this has anything to do with the article.
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