When the Bay Area’s most red-pilled titans decided to cast their lot in with Donald Trump, they soon grew so close to their onetime nemesis that they influenced much of the makeup of his new administration, along with its executive orders and proposed laws and generally lenient stance toward crony corruption. No one even bothers to hide the criminality and theft of their use anymore, and it’s been mighty offputting—to the point that guides for opting yourself out of generative-tool additions regularly make the rounds online, and the executives who brute-forced such tools into being (e.g., Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Elon Musk) are mocked and memed across social media. The tech-and-MAGA-base alliance was already fragile from jump, with various in-group ideological disputes playing out on extremely public stages: support for versus opposition of immigrant workers, enthusiasm for mass surveillance versus an allergy to the concept, wholesale government destruction versus basic aspects of federal functionality, subsidization of the entire cryptosphere versus realization of the founding ideals of Bitcoin.
Author: Nitish Pahwa
Published at: 2025-12-04 22:11:06
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