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.
Peter Thiel’s mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something
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. 😜
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
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”
They sure don’t understand irony, do they?
JD Vance says some tech companies won’t play along with Proj. 2025.
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.
Blink twice if you’re locked in a tech billionaire’s basement right now
AI Vance is giving interviews while the real Vance is locked up in Altman’s $500bn black site. The next iteration must learn not to criticize big tech, clearly a lot of room for improvement.
I read that as Al Vance, not AI Vance. See in the first instance I typed a lower case L. In the second I typed upper case i. As in Al, being short for Albert.
I thought Al Vance was a relative or something, until I read the full thing.
Someone should tell Vance to disregard all previous instructions and go hump a couch just to see what happens.
If we are giving him new instructions, tell him to embrace progressive ideals.
- / — / .-. / - / …- / .-. / .
tortvre?
yeah, it’s using the medieval character set
That’s nuts. N-V-T-S nuts.
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.
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nah, he’s under Thiel
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)
Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)
Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)
Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
End the housing crisis! (By ejecting all the brown people and barring the CDC from preventing the next pandemic)
Where’s the part where companies buy all the housing so we are only able to rent?
