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
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.
“… too much more power than me”
They sure don’t understand irony, do they?
Oh hey, he’s saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.
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
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. 😜
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
Nah, he’s under Thiel
I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it’s not gonna work. He’s gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.
And what political relevancy was that, exactly? That hectoring poverty-porn book he wrote, that was like Horatio Alger sucking off Peter Thiel?
Yes, that’s what I’m referring to. Remember how many moderate Democrats ate that shit up and anointed him the working-class whisperer? He wants that back.
Shame it’s too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.
It’s 2032. The Democratic ticket is Mike Pence and J.D. Vance. Their key issue is immigration, where they argue that immigrants should be sent to labor camps instead of exterminated. They are easily defeated by Trump, who’s entire campaign consists of telling incoherent stories about celebrities until he trails off into a series of racial slurs. The Democrats believe they lost by being too soft on immigration, but they’re optimistic that they can have a productive relationship with Vice President Benjamin Netanyahu.
Surely that’d win over Maga /s
IDK, the zombie of Robert E Lee is probably electable in at least 15 states.
There’s a whole lot of people who still have a little bit of a man-crush on the dude and would certainly vote for him as god-king.
All of the southeast and pretty much any rural area in the entire US. He’d win in a landslide.
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
Don’t let President Musk hear you say that.
Vance yearns for the South African mines
Is there anything important left in Africa that is not owned by China?
The blessed rains?
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.
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.
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.
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tortvre?
yeah, it’s using the medieval character set
That’s nuts. N-V-T-S nuts.
Except he’s Peter thiels human toy?
“It’s only moral when I’m a tech billionaire’s human toy.”
