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.

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      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.

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        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…”

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          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!

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            You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.

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              The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.

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                I have heard this argument before. In the US and way back when I was in school, it was taught that “sum of numeric data points divided by number of data points” == average == mean. The rest were taught as “also statistically relevant functions depending on the type of data”. Semantics of a joke based on another joke. 😅

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              IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.

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                True! Although, I’m under the impression that IQ score is not how smart a person is, but their potential capacity for learning? We can argue semantics of a joke based on a joke all day, any day. 🤓

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          surrounded by morons on all sides

          worrysome

          The call is coming from inside the house.

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    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)

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      End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)

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    Vance: But Peter, won’t everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?

    Thiel: Just tell them “tech people bad” or some shit, they’ll be none the wiser.

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    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.

    Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they’re cool.

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      All Big Tech is on their side though.

      This might be Vance lamenting he’s only Vice to the President, instead of Trump who gets to be Musk’s VP.

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      Which means he will likely be found not to be part of “Big Tech”. For some reason.

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      When he says “big tech,” he means tech companies that go against him. Just like the “deep state” is anyone in the government who go against them.

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        Their motives are nefarious anyways. Even if they admit the truth, the solutions they propose just tend to make things worse. Like how when conservatives admit climate change is real and end up becoming eco fascists.

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      You really don’t, though.

      You mean you want technology that serves the public good.

      Propeller Cap over here is just pissy he hasn’t hijacked it like a government.

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    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.

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      Shame it’s too late for the Democrats to wheel out Henry Kissinger and Robert E Lee to campaign with.

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        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.

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          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.

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      Yep, they used that ladder to get to the top of the wall, if they leave the ladder intact someone could follow them up.