you're the fella who just pulled Owen Jones out for criticism in a conversation involving Elon Musk and Alex Jones.
"I can tell which way the wind is blowing, so I'll throw my all in with whichever scum are in power next because you are better the devil you know. I like being wealthy and want to remain that way. No chance is trump et al painting me as a pariah figure, I'm not getting shot in the back next..."
The account you are replying to doesn't like the gay community. It has been very clear regards it's bigotry and agenda. Jones is openly gay, and has been a target for over a decade for being one of 'dem libz' to an ever growing spiteful percentage of the populace that fancy going back in time to say the 1930's where women knew their place, there were only white faces, the poor were for down treading, and hurrah for jolly england. Basically a rees mogg moist dream.
They could do it a little less ceremonially though. I mean, a piece to camera was weird
His delivery is mildly annoying, and I get why people don’t take to him but the amount of stick sent Owen Jones’ way is weird. Especially given his work highlighting class inequalities but many people would rather get all giddy over lying billionaires who couldn’t give two [Poor language removed] about them.
It’s the same people who rip into labour after 6 months but didn’t utter a word during 14 years of Tory devastation.
There’s likely multiple reasons.
That makes sense though im still surprised these guys egos allow them to ‘switch sides’ so dramatically and so obviously- again, so strangeThere’s likely multiple reasons.
One that springs to mind is the issue of Social Media being used as a weapon for modern information warfare.
We’ve seen it from the Russian troll farms, right wing disinformation causing riots, influencing elections all the way back to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, With Facebook being accused of selling data to outside companies and of course the spread of disinformation influencing the Brexit vote.
It feels like the left leaning parties world wide want tighter controls on these platforms, especially concerning disinformation and the owners being held accountable for content posted on their platforms.
The right relies heavily on disinformation and will shout the usual “fReEdOm oF sPeEcH” rhetoric in this regard. So it’s likely more beneficial for big tech platform owners like Musk and Zuckerberg to play ball with the right wing populists.
As for Bezos, he’s a sub-human scumbag who’d run his factories like Dickensian Workhouses if he could get away with it, so no surprise on him supporting the types of people who want to crush unions.
Of course this doesn’t apply to your social media empire if it happens to be Chinese owned
Read the "The Sovereign Individual - Mastering the Transition to the Information Age". It is a seminal book for these tech-bros (barons).
Thanks. Unlikely I’ll read it as I’m still on page ten of my Christmas book from the kids (Raising hare, A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare
) and, it sounds a little above my zone!
It suggests radical societal changes driven by the information revolution. It predicts the decline of the nation-state as tech liberates individuals from government control, creating a world where success is driven by the individual. Especially nice if said individuals are billionaires.Thanks. Unlikely I’ll read it as I’m still on page ten of my Christmas book from the kids (Raising hare, A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare
I still struggle with the reason they are all turning to the dark side- it’s death Vader-esque. Zuckerberg seems to have switched overnight
I've meant to read it but never got round to it.