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Stuff like this should be studied in some kind of a medical facility. How do people flip their entire worldview overnight, and become colossal bigots, with the most aggressive and violent thought processes?
The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn't socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.
Did he ever possess a different world view? Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person, only to find out they're a piece of shit a la, Zuck, Dorsey, Musk, etc.
Remember there was a time we didn't know everything about these people and the notion that they were creating these platforms and industries for the betterment of man kind didn't seem so crazy.
Now we know every last one of them is a money obsessed freak with entire cemeteries in their closets, touting "Effective Altruism" or "Rationalism" or whatever new fad fake philanthropists are claiming this quarter.
Probably they didn't change at all but their influence scaled up. Lying to a person or to a million people doesn't carry the same weight
My god, people here are STILL struggling with the idea that their perspective isn't absolute, and that they actually need to investigate the world to truly know things about it, instead of just relying upon the social media hive mind to tell them truth from fiction.
He did make those claims himself, in the past. Which of course means fucking nothing, because actions speak louder
What’d Dorsey do?
Well his general leadership of Twitter.
His absolutist take on "Free Speech" that allowed alt right and Nazi groups to flourish and spread on his platform
Then the eventual sale to Elon Musk, where he kept acting like he had no choice/no say in the sale.
left bluesky and endorsed X b/c bluesky decided to do moderation
You do realize there's way more people in tech than those types of people?
You do realize we're not talking about those people right?
lots and lots of money
I'm telling you, it's that chin beard that gone fucked things up
He's always been a shit heel. He was funding pepe meme anti Hillary billboards in 2014.
Wasn‘t he let go from Facebook partially for his political views like being a fierce Trump supporter, though? That was years before Suckerberg turned full fascist oligarch himself mind you.
They have everything they want on demand and they lose touch with what it was like to be a normal person. They might have these thoughts inside their head all along but just could never express them when they were among normal people.