I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
That has not been my experience.
Movie nerds? Right-wing since the 90s.
Video game nerds? Extra toxic right-wing.
Tech nerds? Funding the right wing.
Comic nerds? The worst of all.
It’s not the tech nerds funding the right wing; it’s the venture capitalists
I would definitely call Thiel a tech nerd.
Same with his buddy Zuckerberg, and to a lesser extent (in terms of the ‘tech’ label) Elon.
Would you disagree?
Those are CEOs.
There’s a huge contingent of socialist/leftist techies. How do you think the open source movement happened? The most popular operating system for both servers and smartphones is given away to the world by a .org
Silicon Valley is notorious for right-wingers, and there’s a huge annual gathering of all the PNW right wing bros every year that is overwhelmingly tech dudes with no social competencies.
FOSS is definitely the exception but not even that is nearly as left-wing as it used to be, especially since their platforms started getting cracked down on and since they adopted cryptocurrency. And there have always been some right-wing personas in the Linux community, especially on the more corporate side.
Also, would a leftist ever work for one of those CEOs if they had a choice? I don’t think so - in fact, I think it is safe to say that the majority of (non-green card wielding) workers at those companies are at least not fundamentally opposed to what their CEOs pay them to do. Even the ones that aren’t overtly right-wing (of which I’m sure there are many employees) are still supportive of the right-wing interests of their employers. And these are people who can easily get jobs elsewhere.
That used to be different, too
Feed your head.
I’m not saying there are no right-wing tech nerds, I’m saying that your argument that tech nerds are right wing is overly reductive.
You concede my point about FOSS but then try to muddy the waters from there by citing “their platforms started getting cracked down on and [their having] adopted cryptocurrency” to try to make your prior pidgeon-holing still work. Mind citing me a source for either of those claims? Neither of those seem to me to be issues plaguing the wider FOSS community, and as a participant I’m interested to hear about this news I’ve apparently missed.
Silicon Valley is not representative of tech nerds in general. It is, like Hollywood, a small area filled with desperate people trying to turn their talents into fame and fortune. Insinuating that tech nerds in general have the same culture as Silicon Valley is like insinuating that actors in general dress, act, and think like Hollywood actors do. It’s ridiculous on its face.
All this to say it really sounds like you’ve built up a stereotype based on what you read in the news rather than by engaging with the actual community in question.
It’s my industry, but thanks.
I’m not going to let you sealion me into sourcing citations that right-wingers love crypto projects. That’s absurd.
Do your coworkers know what you think about them? My coworkers do because I respect the hell out of them.
It’s my industry too.
I wasn’t asking if right-wingers love crypto, but about what you were arguing about the FOSS community having “their platforms … getting cracked down on and [their having] adopted cryptocurrency”, which sounds an awful lot like a specific claim or two.
I literally still have no idea which events you’re referring to, unless you’re just saying “but crypto exists”. I mean, we’re on a FOSS platform right now.
Nice strawman, though. Honestly pretty ironic that you’re implicitly accusing me of arguing in bad faith when you’ve misrepresented my question so entirely.
I misrepresented your question? How does one even misrepresent a question like
I called you out for sealioning, I didn’t misrepresent anything.
I did have a typo two comments back, though. I didn’t mean to say “cracked down” I meant to say “go corporate,” as in enterprise distros and support. Which you’re in the industry so you don’t need an introduction to.
I am trying to debate in good faith, at the very least.
Go on, point out the strawman. I’ll wait.
Ablism, real nice.
I am really not liking what you are throwing down and I am not seeing evidence of your multiple assertions. I am fairly leftwing, been an engineer for 15 years, I don’t enjoy dealing with companies that are run by rightwingers but I am not going to do a purity test.
Stop with the discrimination against the high functioning autistic at least. I am sorry your glowing rectangle provider who let you unlock it but that is hardly our fault.
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Your question is why I considered a sweeping generalization about a group of people to be bigoted?
Just clarifying here. You are confused about why assigning a stereotype to people based on genetic traits came off as bigotry.
I wasn’t intending to be being ablist, and I really don’t think I was. That accusation honestly upsets me. I feel like they didn’t even try to read my comment, something just hit one of their triggers and they went into attack mode.
There are two types of tech workers without social skills: Those who haven’t invested in them (statistically the majority), and those who aren’t able to develop them (statistically the minority).
The right-wing pipeline preys on both of these groups. This has been documented and researched. It takes advantage of them and turns them onto incel culture. This is partially causative of the culture shift in the industry which I and others have pointed out.
To self-censor myself from speaking about this exploitation doesn’t make me more or less ablist, in my opinion.
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Oh your feelings were hurt after you stereotyped me? Boo freaken hoo
I am not an incel. I have been with my wife for 13 years. My eldest is 9. Before I met her I did more than alright in dating, thank you very much.
I am not right-wing. I consider myself a centralist but in practice I vote democratic the vast majority of the time.
I have never found crypto to be impressive but yeah I do have a few hundred in it because meh why not? I bought 20 bucks worth years ago and didn’t sell.
As I explained to you I don’t exactly get veto power over my clients and I am not in a position where I can storm off when Koch comes by with an order. If you want a fucking purity test go work for that overpriced ice cream place in Vermont. Just don’t come crying to me when they make you watch videos about issues you disagree with. I live in the real world where it isn’t realistic to only do business with people who 100% agree with me on every issue and have never ever done something wrong.
It’s funny how you demand this from me but wouldn’t yell at some guy working at a McDonald’s for filling Cheney’s order. Shows how consistent you are but demand that I be more consistent. Hypocrisy.
Must be nice on that high horse. You go enjoy yourself. I am going to deal with the real world, warts and all.
I wouldn’t call them nerds because they’re venture capitalists not nerds. Nerds implies some sort of technological or engineering skill or ability. Steve Jobs would qualify; not these two.
Jobs was not nearly as tech-oriented as either Zuckerberg or Thiel.
Edit: Now that I have a little more time I’d like to expand on this comment. Jobs was a marketer. It was Wozniak who was the techie. But he was more of an old school techie. Now that I think of it, a couple years back Woz actually made a crypto platform that was intended to crowd-fund environmentally friendly businesses. Last I checked it… was not very successful.
I think you dont know what luck is.
…I am not funding the right wing. I am building a better world one line of code and one circuit at a time.
If you are willing to hold a conversation, I would love to hear your thoughts behind this.
As a programmer I find myself dealing with the dilemma that more technology has been creating more problems, not less.
For example I ask myself, how is code going to bring us to zero emissions by 2030? I don’t see how anything short of fundamental structural changes can improve the world at this point.
The tech developments that I see changing the world the most right now are in DRM with the sole purpose of extracting more profit - like Manifest v3, NFTs, subscription car functionality. Other than that we have ‘AI’ that require immense resources and are driving ecological destruction around the world.
And how about our stacks? The modern internet single-handedly keeps Amazon in the green through AWS.
Well first off software isn’t just flowing rectangles connected to internet tubes. Many of us work in Industrial/Chemical/Civil control systems. Like me. There is a lot of thought that goes into making sure what you flush doesn’t just pour on the ground. I made a decision early in my career that it was more important to me that we don’t drown in our own waste vs making sure slack integrated well with outlook.
As for how I would go about changing stuff the answer is I do it everyday. Can do it a lot faster if the rest of you people stayed the hell out of my way.
Okay, touché and hats off to you.
Praise after attacking me means nothing.
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Get off the wrong internet spaces and you’ll start meeting the right kinds of nerds.
I’m good, I’m c/collapse crew.
Doesn’t it say something that you have to retreat to fringe spaces to not be surrounded by right-wing talking points, though?
If it smells like shit everywhere you go, change your shoes.
Are those groups right wing, or just centrists that don’t react well to people trying to push far left ideals in their spaces?
Right-wing, thanks for asking.
Just very, very rightist.