Tag: David Sacks

Fascist Tech Bros Are Lining Up Behind Trump

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

If ever there was a sign that America has collectively given up, it’s the way that wealthy tech bros — who should know better — are now all-in for malignant ding-dong Trump. It’s a very curious development, to say the least.

But here we are, with plutocrat and former Paypal HR guy David Sacks arranging a big fundraiser for Trump. The whole thing is surreal. It is staggering to me that people like Sacks who are smart enough to know better, are willing to support someone has racist and dumb as Trump…just because they want lower taxes?

And, yet, that doesn’t really even begin to address the broader problem — Sacks and his ilk are also openly supporting Putin in his war of aggression against Ukraine.

All of this is an eerie replay of what happened with Hitler and German Industrialists who supported him because they thought they could “control him.” It’s all very bonkers.

I don’t know what to tell you. We continue to be in a situation where the 2024 election could go either way. And, if anything, I think that’s the key thing to remember — if every election your democracy has is existential, then you’re not really a democracy anymore.

And that’s the long term issue that the United States faces — a sizable portion of the electorate wants a white Christian ethnostate and that danger isn’t going to end anytime soon, even if we crush Trump at the polls later this year. Even if we manage to defeat Trump in November and he doesn’t start to rant about the need for a National Divorce in an effort to escape prison time, he is probably going to run again in 2028 — even if he has to do it from prison.

Jesus Christ, Is Tech Bro David Sacks A Dick

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I try, you know. I really do. I try to force myself to listen to people I disagree with because it forces me to better understand what I believe and why. It’s that thinking that causes me to listen to the All-In podcast even though sometimes what those asinine tech bros have to say gives me the heebie-jeebies.

But it’s tech bro David Sacks who continues to grate on my nerves. He loves, loves, loves, to second guess and bitch about what you would think every American would do without much thought — support Ukraine.

He seems to go to ridiculous lengths to think up reasons why we should give up on Ukraine and let Putin run roughshod over that proud nation. And he’s not alone — there are plenty of other Tech Bros who think the same thing.

It’s all very curious and alarming.

But what do I know. He’s far more wealthy than I am and we’re all supposed to listen to people like Sacks because they’re wealthy and successful. Right?

Welcome To The Resistance, David Sacks

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Well, well, wel, welcome to the woke cancel culture mob David Sacks. So, here I am listening to a VERY GOOD emergency “All-In” podcast that is about the SVB debacle and it definitely seems as though Sacks has gone woke when it comes to the government stepping in to help his sorry ass.

If you are opposed to canceling student loan debt because of the “moral hazard,” you can’t turn around and beg for a bailout just because things you care about are involved. Sacks did a big rant about why the government should step in and bail out SVB investment in an effort to obscure the fact that “moral hazard” is the entire basis of the free-market system.

But that’s obviously not what’s going to happen. Sacks is not only a fascist, but a hypocrite. He wants help from the government because things he cares about are involved. But if some 20 something has $100,000 in student loan debt that is not only crushing their dreams but their ability to be economically productive, he wants to tell them they’re shit out of luck because of the “moral hazard.”

This is all a prime example of how ridiculously divided America is and how we’re destroying ourselves because of “vibes.” There are no easy answers to any of this.

There is a real chance that this crisis will lead to a contagion to the point that if you combine this with the US potentially defaulting on its debts because Republicans are cocksuckers it seems very possible that we’re careening towards late 2024, early 2025 being the perfect storm I’m afraid it might be.

A Hot Take On The ‘All-In’ Podcast

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m growing fond of listening to the tech bro podcast “All-In.” I generally don’t agree with a lot of what they say and their built-in bias to one Elon Musk. And, yet, given that I am the red headed step child of my family politically, it is useful to build up mental antibodies to their version of the “mind virus” I keep hearing about.

Sometimes what these well heeled tech bros DON’T say is just as interesting as what they do say. Take, for instance what happened in the most recent episode of the podcast. Jason Calacanis obviously went to the Dave Chappelle show where Elon Musk was booed…but he neither mentioned that he went with Musk, nor mentioned that Musk was booed.

But, as I was saying, I like a good debate and I also believe that any thinking person worth their salt should bounce up and down on what they believe, challenge what they believe, on a regular basis so they have a better sense of what it is, exactly, that they believe.

I have to admit that I even, on occasion, find myself agreeing — to an extremely limited extent — with the podcast’s resident MAGA-friendly person David Sacks. But I think that says more about how I come from a Traditionalist background and am more anti-MAGA than I am any sort of liberal. And usually whenever I “agree” with Sacks it’s on the edges where simple common sense comes into play.

Though, as an aside, I have to chuckle at how the tech bros of All-In constantly and consistently conflate the hard power of the government they want so bad with the soft power of the “woke cancel culture mob”…that hurts their fee-fees? People like Sacks, specifically, really want to burn everything to the ground because they find “libtards” hypocritical and annoying.

So what, is all I gotta say.

Yes, Biden has turned out to be far more of a progressive than a lot of people expected, but he’s good at retail politics and sometimes you gotta dance with the one that brung ya. And the MAGA hatred of the “woke cancel culture mob” all goes back to how its a movement based on hate. They’re fucking Nazis dressed up in modern garb with a thin veneer of civility and indignation shellacked on to them.

A Nazi is still a Nazi. And I fucking hate Nazis, be they MAGA or old school in nature. Fuck MAGA Nazis.

Anyway, if you’re a self-aware, thinking person, I encourage you to challenge what you believe, to get out of your silo and listen to podcasts that don’t follow your personal media narrative or reside within your social media echo chamber. You’ll keep your mind healthy.