Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.
Translation: he thinks they’re not fascist enough.
That is, unfortunately, what I think this means, too.
JD Vance says some tech companies won’t play along with Proj. 2025.
Peter Thiel’s mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something
They sure don’t understand irony, do they?
Good cop bad cop?
Probably. If I were Vance, whether the Never Trump thing was genuine or I was just a power hungry asshole, I’d be positioning myself to look like the sane one in the administration so that I could remove Trump via the 25th in 2027 and be hailed as the guy who saved America from him. I’d also be egging Trump and Musk on to be as terrible as possible as publicly as possible.
Yeah we know. They’re using it to help your idiot boss, ya lumpy potato.
“… too much more power than me”
Oh hey, he’s saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.
Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.
Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.
You don’t understand. This is tech tribal war.
“Big Tech” is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.
Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them “Tech B”.
Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.
And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.
They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.
And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.
Yeah, except there have been defections from Big Tech to Tech B, the prime example being Meta. Zuckerbot has gone and kissed the ring, and has shifted Meta to push more rightwing lies. And OpenAI has been Musk-adjacent from its start, so I’m not sure where it should go. And I’d use Xitter as the Musk example rather than Tesla, since Tesla’s primarily a carmaker, not a tech company, despite its doing clever things with batteries now and then.
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If Harris had won, I think I’d want to hear Tim Walz’ opinion on everything. In his own words, live on a stream or something like that. I bet it would’ve been absolutely wild to hear this Midwestern dad give his takes on AI.
Edit: grammar mistakes
Didn’t Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta all donated much more to Harris than to Trump? It’s more like he got elected despite the big tech influence. Which explains why he’s saying against them.
I don’t know how to link comments across instances correctly, but you should see the other comment in reply to the same person you replied to, posted 4 hours before yours. It answers the very question you are asking. From @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED
He’s playing a part.
Yeah that is why he wants to stop it, so others can’t use it to get elected. 😜
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nah, he’s under Thiel
Ikr?? Did you hear about that one tech bro Nazi who wormed his way into the government?!
Or how about Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel? Did he forget about him?
Sounds like they want to limit “bad” tech companies but reward the ring kissers.
Upvoting you feels weird, but also KD Vances statement seems to have the opposite problem.
You’re just stating the obvious. It would be like if some guy were saying “Our enemy has been breathing oxygen their whole LIFE!”
And everyone scurries around like “oh my god! That’s less oxygen for the rest of us!”
And then some other guy, thinking he’s revealing an unforseen statement says the most blatently obvious thing they could say.
“GUYS! I THINK HUMANS MIGHT NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE! THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT!”
Meanwhile I’m watching this all happen, and watching peoples reactions to everything, and thinking “I’m surrounded by morons on all sides. Which is worrysome, because I don’t feel like I should be above the average line. I’m just some guy. I don’t know things…but I feel like a 4th grader, in a school with no teachers, surrounded by toddlers. We’re in trouble if I’M the voice of reason in this world…”
Carlin already explained this phenomenon before he died.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Then consider the fact that half of all people are even dumber than that!
You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.
IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.
The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.
surrounded by morons on all sides
worrysome
The call is coming from inside the house.
And what about that Musk guy, too?
You must mean Ketamine Karen :D
“No comment”
I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it’s not gonna work. He’s gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.
And what political relevancy was that, exactly? That hectoring poverty-porn book he wrote, that was like Horatio Alger sucking off Peter Thiel?
Yes, that’s what I’m referring to. Remember how many moderate Democrats ate that shit up and anointed him the working-class whisperer? He wants that back.
Shame it’s too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.
It’s 2032. The Democratic ticket is Mike Pence and J.D. Vance. Their key issue is immigration, where they argue that immigrants should be sent to labor camps instead of exterminated. They are easily defeated by Trump, who’s entire campaign consists of telling incoherent stories about celebrities until he trails off into a series of racial slurs. The Democrats believe they lost by being too soft on immigration, but they’re optimistic that they can have a productive relationship with Vice President Benjamin Netanyahu.
Surely that’d win over Maga /s
IDK, the zombie of Robert E Lee is probably electable in at least 15 states.
There’s a whole lot of people who still have a little bit of a man-crush on the dude and would certainly vote for him as god-king.
All of the southeast and pretty much any rural area in the entire US. He’d win in a landslide.
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
