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Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

But more poignantly for me, a cog in the Silicon Valley machine, is how Big Tech royally screwed itself by completely misunderstanding what motivates the core of the right wing. They thought they could endear themselves to the right by debasing themselves before Trump and kissing his ring, but the right wing aren’t buying any of it. They remember that only a year ago, Big Tech was all into deplatforming them and cozying up to “diversity” and left-wing ideas—ideas that are diametrically opposed to their view of Western Civilization; and now Big Tech claims they’re part of the right wing? Yeah, right.

The right wants to see Big Tech burn. And ironically, now so does the left, because Big Tech’s prostration and capitulation before Trump has thoroughly disgusted those fighting for progressive values.

Trump is the only person holding Big Tech and the right wing together. And when Trump is gone—and he will be gone—Big Tech will find itself without anyone on their side.

#conservatism #siliconValley

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Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

PS: Tina Nguyen suggested that if you want to understand what conservatives mean by “Western Civilization” and how they frame their philosophy around it, read “The Flight 93 Election”, an opinion piece written prior to the 2016 election by Michael Anton, who used the pseudonym “Publius Decius Mus”.

Please read it. It’s high-density education about the mindset of the ivory tower of conservatism. Note how it implies racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism—all of the bigotries—without explicitly calling for them. Note how it calls everyone who disagrees enemies of the cause, without explicitly saying that. The use of lofty language and allusions to abstract ideals is a core rhetorical style of the right-wing intellectual.

But also, note how it treats Trump not as a visionary or leader, but a Convenient Reprobate, merely a vessel for the advancement of their cause, and a way to defeat Hillary Clinton, their actual nemesis.

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/

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The Flight 93 Election - Claremont Review of Books

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