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.
Ikr?? Did you hear about that one tech bro Nazi who wormed his way into the government?!
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.
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…”
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!
You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.
The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.
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. 😅
IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.
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. 🤓
surrounded by morons on all sides
worrysome
The call is coming from inside the house.
And what about that Musk guy, too?
You must mean Ketamine Karen :D
“No comment”
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.
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.
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.
- / — / .-. / - / …- / .-. / .
tortvre?
yeah, it’s using the medieval character set
That’s nuts. N-V-T-S nuts.
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)
End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)
End the housing crisis! (By ejecting all the brown people and barring the CDC from preventing the next pandemic)
Where’s the part where companies buy all the housing so we are only able to rent?
JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat
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. 😜
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.
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.
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.
Wasn’t he hand selected by Peter Thiel?
Which means he will likely be found not to be part of “Big Tech”. For some reason.
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.
Don’t let President Musk hear you say that.
Vance yearns for the South African mines
Something we actually agree on.
100% guarantee this pissfit about big tech is just because Musk is sitting where he thought he’d be.
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.
Yikes! Do you think he has the guts to have Musk taken out?
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.
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.
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.
We got what we want, now we vilify them.
Where have we seen this before? Oh right. Fascism.
Yep, they used that ladder to get to the top of the wall, if they leave the ladder intact someone could follow them up.
Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?
The US night of the long knives has come
Nobody bought the $JD coin 😢😭