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I was born in the late Holocene and I've seen some shit

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vogon
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the more news that comes out of silicon valley lately, the more I marvel at the fact that the secular tech right wing seems to be reinventing every awful aspect of evangelical christianity, with the sole exception that technically they don't think god exists

they've reinvented pascal's wager, the homeschooling movement, prosperity gospel, quiverfull...

don't worry, though, they're "liberals" -- just, the kind of liberals that want to be able to stop funding public schools and give all of their disposable income to think tanks that exist solely to write papers about how getting rich and giving all of your disposable income to think tanks is the best thing people can do for society

juliemuncy
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how many years do we have, you think, before peter thiel and his ilk start running for office

eight? ten? gonna be a nightmare

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SiteRelEnby
@SiteRelEnby

I always took it as a semi-parody - I agree with its overall message but the way it goes about it is obviously stupid in stretching people's denial to absurd lengths, but then again, Pascal's Wager is one of the stupidest ideas in all philosophy (to quote Homer Simpson, "What happens if we picked the wrong god? Every time we go to to church we just make them madder and madder" for just one easy takedown of many of it).

(Although, it looks less stupid with all the COVID denialists everywhere - when the pandemic started, I was immediately expecting MAGA types to take the side of the virus, but not 90-95% of the general population to be completely unable to give a shit about anyone else until it's them and their family ending up disabled...)

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gureito
@gureito

i don't think god had never had anything to do with it. even for evangelical christianity, these moves have always been about strengthening their power structure and dressing it up in way that the ones under the structure accepted it. the tech right wing is just playing the exact same moves. i don't think they are reinventing anything. what they are doing is that they learned what worked for religion --there's a lot of old money in there, and money and church have been hand in hand for as long as they existed-- and adapted their discourse to distance themselves from them, to make it acceptable independent of denomination. i think it's a conscious and deliberate move, not something they are stumbling on their own as they get used to newfound power... don't make it any less sad though 😔

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zaratustra
@zaratustra

if every billionaire had 100 children, it would be less kids than the population of Corpus Christi, Texas

If all of those had 100 children, it would still be less than the population of Mozambique

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vogon
@vogon

unfortunately, blake masters

Blake Gates Masters (born August 5, 1986) is an American venture capitalist and political candidate. Frequently referred to as a protégé of businessman Peter Thiel, Masters co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters had taken at Stanford Law School in 2012. He was later chief operating officer of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, and also president of the Thiel Foundation.

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