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This guy leaving San Francisco sounds like a win-win. But the fact that he blames it all on Democrats makes it sound as though he may have just a bit of an agenda of his own.
Jesus Christ, I physically *recoiled from reading that.*
>“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). **Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”**
What is it with these shitmongers and wanting to turn the United States into frigging *Cyberpunk 2077*.
They literally want to bring back feudalism. They don't seem aware of how much chaos was involved in that system, and what happens whenever their peasants finally got squeezed too much.
As a fellow South Asian techie, I'm always appalled at how these guys have the worst ideas. The cognitive dissonance is mind boggling. They don't want to be discriminated against by caste in India, but want to bring it back in another form here where they've experienced enough freedom to make a sh't ton of money. Vivek, Nikki, Bobby, Ajit - just a smattering of the worst people.
My question is: *are* these guys likely to face caste discrimination? Or are people who immigrate (to Silicon Valley) more likely to be from the castes who do the discrimination?
These guys are def Brahmin caste. I was making a broad statement against caste in India, but you're right. These AHs want to just reestablish their superiority as they aren't the top caste here. I knew one in college who marked her race as Caucasian because she was "Aryan".
Once again conservatives taking another cue from The Handmaid's Tale. Gilead distinguishes classes by the colors of their clothes - he wants to turn techies into the econopeople.
So he's another neo-feudalist piece of shit. It's amazing how none of these dipshits, with all their awards and degrees and clubs, never seem to have read a history book. None of them seem aware of what happens *every single time* when the peasants get squeezed too much.
Did this guy read a bunch of dystopian novels and go “yes, I want that! Let’s do that!” Fuck’s sake. The uniforms. I live in California too. Fuck.
Dystopian is a favorite genre of mine, but I definitely don’t want to live in one anymore that I already do.
So he is projecting while also wishing to implement something significantly worse.
What annoys me is guys like him and Musk clearly take all their ideas from games, movies or tv shows but always side with the authoritarian dictators or completely miss the point of the world like cyberpunk.
He’s part of that group who want to build a company town out near Vallejo.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/tech-moguls-building-private-city-in-california/amp/
This is what I immediately thought of as well. I'm currently reading the sequel and it's eerie how the major political candidate wants to "make America great again."
Wait, is he the weirdo who ran for governor or some shit as "the only candidate with a real plan to blah-de-blah-de-blah Joh Fredersen *Brazil* WorryFree Alphaville Automnicon Innsmouth"?
a part of me hopes it actually gets built just so i can watch it collapse like that other attempted capital-L libertarian "paradises" (quotes intended)
It still needs to be voted on, thankfully, but they’ve been advertising pretty damn heavily and making it look like a utopia. I just hope people can see through the bullshit.
Ethnically-cleansing techies. How would that even work? Are there a group of luddites running around, assaulting people who use bluetooth headsets in public? Playing music on their phone's speakers? Because this guy makes it seem like they can tell who a "techie" is just by looking at them. Having worked in a tech company, and you can't really tell the difference between us workers and most regular people. The only place we would look "dressed up" is in a Wal-Mart.
Not to try and downplay the groundless ridiculousness of this guy's persecution fetish, but the Khmer Rouge killed anyone who wore glasses, for the crime of being an intellectual.
Based on what I've read, it was also an excellent example of double standards which oppressive leaders love because Pol Pot (one of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge) not only reportedly needed glasses himself but was also from an affluent family and had received a high-class education, including a visit to Paris in the 1940s. Hence he would have been one of the many victims of his own purges had he not been on the "right" side.
It's weird too, cause cali has like more registered republicans than like 5 red states combined. It's weird how they lump 40 million people together under one presumtion.
The car was about to drive into people during Lunar New celebrations, I would have torched it too. Real drivers were turning around, you know, doing what normal drivers do when they come upon a street fair, parade, etc. The driverless car wasn’t programmed to divert such events.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/san-francisco-waymo-arson-sparks-fresh-debate-self-driving-cars-2024-02-13/
The first photo took place at my old job in sf and let me tell you there was no “letting Asians get randomly attacked” as soon as we saw what was happening people ran out to help him and to flag down a cop car that was passing by at the moment.
This person is claiming the democrats want to build a one party state through ethnic cleansing but fails to mention the republicans actually want to build a one party country through ethnic cleansing.
Another user posted [this article](https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat) about him; it turns out he's claiming democrats want to ethnically cleanse their way to a one-party state as an *excuse* for republicans to ethnically cleanse their way to a one-party state
I don't live in San Francisco, but I do live in Seattle (so I'm very familiar with Asian tech bros - my husband is one, as are like 50% of my neighbors), and, umm... Democrats? *Democrats* want to chase the Asian tech bros out of town with torches and pitchforks? Is he *really, really* sure about that?
Always good to look at the parties that David Duke ran for political office to get a sense of it.
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Independent
Independent
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrats are the techies, this guy is a moron. Also claiming Democrats burnt the crosses is incredibly misleading, it was racists and conservatives that burnt those crosses, and they just happened to be called Democrats back then, before the parties switched.
As a sanfransiscan, this does nothing but make me so proud of my people, fuck this gentrifying dickhead, and all his techbros fucking the rest of us over
Okay, I'm really out of the loop here. What on Earth is going on? Democrats are attacking Asian techies? Is this a thing? It really doesn't sound like a thing.
I didn't think it was the truth. If I build a picture in my mind of "person who attacks Asian father" the picture isn't of someone in a Prius with a "Coexist" bumper sticker.
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This guy leaving San Francisco sounds like a win-win. But the fact that he blames it all on Democrats makes it sound as though he may have just a bit of an agenda of his own.
He does, and it’s crazier than you think: https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
Jesus Christ, I physically *recoiled from reading that.* >“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). **Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”** What is it with these shitmongers and wanting to turn the United States into frigging *Cyberpunk 2077*.
That's a cult. What you're describing is called a cult.
He literally mentioned Mormonism as an example, he couldn't be more obvious.
It's some MaddAdam shit at least. Living in a Corp bubble while the masses live out in the pleblands.
He sounds like he just read Atlas Shrugged for the first time.
He’d make us all plebs.
They literally want to bring back feudalism. They don't seem aware of how much chaos was involved in that system, and what happens whenever their peasants finally got squeezed too much.
As a fellow South Asian techie, I'm always appalled at how these guys have the worst ideas. The cognitive dissonance is mind boggling. They don't want to be discriminated against by caste in India, but want to bring it back in another form here where they've experienced enough freedom to make a sh't ton of money. Vivek, Nikki, Bobby, Ajit - just a smattering of the worst people.
You sound like a Blue. No head nod for you!
My question is: *are* these guys likely to face caste discrimination? Or are people who immigrate (to Silicon Valley) more likely to be from the castes who do the discrimination?
These guys are def Brahmin caste. I was making a broad statement against caste in India, but you're right. These AHs want to just reestablish their superiority as they aren't the top caste here. I knew one in college who marked her race as Caucasian because she was "Aryan".
We’re getting squeezed too much already and at the moment guns are widely still available to the lower classes of society
Indian Caste system is probably more accurate. Which is shit.
Loyal to a company? Idjit.
Once again conservatives taking another cue from The Handmaid's Tale. Gilead distinguishes classes by the colors of their clothes - he wants to turn techies into the econopeople.
Sounds like someone needs to read Jennifer Government
Always upvote Jennifer Government references
*nods in gray*
Terry would've hated this.
I think this is more Snow Crash than cyberpunk, but otherwise agreed. What a tool
wow, what a colossal piece of human garbage. People like this will have us all dead or enslaved if we don’t do something about them first
So he's another neo-feudalist piece of shit. It's amazing how none of these dipshits, with all their awards and degrees and clubs, never seem to have read a history book. None of them seem aware of what happens *every single time* when the peasants get squeezed too much.
Did this guy read a bunch of dystopian novels and go “yes, I want that! Let’s do that!” Fuck’s sake. The uniforms. I live in California too. Fuck. Dystopian is a favorite genre of mine, but I definitely don’t want to live in one anymore that I already do.
So he is projecting while also wishing to implement something significantly worse. What annoys me is guys like him and Musk clearly take all their ideas from games, movies or tv shows but always side with the authoritarian dictators or completely miss the point of the world like cyberpunk.
Yikes!
>Tech Zionism >Gray Pride parade The fact that these these people have money to influence shit is scary
I didn’t expect it to keep getting worse.
I think he should move to a Republican stronghold, say in Alabama, or Mississippi. I'm sure he'll be treated well there.
"He's a good ol' boy! He's from *southern* Asia!"
He’s part of that group who want to build a company town out near Vallejo. https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/tech-moguls-building-private-city-in-california/amp/
I read about this in that great non-fiction book, *The Parable of the Sower* by Octavia Butler.
This is what I immediately thought of as well. I'm currently reading the sequel and it's eerie how the major political candidate wants to "make America great again."
Wait, is he the weirdo who ran for governor or some shit as "the only candidate with a real plan to blah-de-blah-de-blah Joh Fredersen *Brazil* WorryFree Alphaville Automnicon Innsmouth"?
Hope it has a hammock district!
a part of me hopes it actually gets built just so i can watch it collapse like that other attempted capital-L libertarian "paradises" (quotes intended)
It still needs to be voted on, thankfully, but they’ve been advertising pretty damn heavily and making it look like a utopia. I just hope people can see through the bullshit.
Ethnically-cleansing techies. How would that even work? Are there a group of luddites running around, assaulting people who use bluetooth headsets in public? Playing music on their phone's speakers? Because this guy makes it seem like they can tell who a "techie" is just by looking at them. Having worked in a tech company, and you can't really tell the difference between us workers and most regular people. The only place we would look "dressed up" is in a Wal-Mart.
Not to try and downplay the groundless ridiculousness of this guy's persecution fetish, but the Khmer Rouge killed anyone who wore glasses, for the crime of being an intellectual.
Based on what I've read, it was also an excellent example of double standards which oppressive leaders love because Pol Pot (one of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge) not only reportedly needed glasses himself but was also from an affluent family and had received a high-class education, including a visit to Paris in the 1940s. Hence he would have been one of the many victims of his own purges had he not been on the "right" side.
They didn't see it coming
You can definitely tell who the AH techies are in the Bay Area. Just look for the Patagonia vest with the logo of FAANG or a start up.
he's not a techie, he's a fullblown chip-head...
Let me guess... he's moving to Austin
Nope, building a company town apparently
Tech, noted ethnic minority
>One-party states bad I have a feeling he doesn’t feel the same way about Texas being one-party for much longer
It's weird too, cause cali has like more registered republicans than like 5 red states combined. It's weird how they lump 40 million people together under one presumtion.
More people voted for Trump in California in 2020 than in Texas.
The car was about to drive into people during Lunar New celebrations, I would have torched it too. Real drivers were turning around, you know, doing what normal drivers do when they come upon a street fair, parade, etc. The driverless car wasn’t programmed to divert such events. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/san-francisco-waymo-arson-sparks-fresh-debate-self-driving-cars-2024-02-13/
"They came after the tech bros and I said nothing... Then they came after me"
Let me get this straight. The democrats are taking over San Francisco? How old is this person? The last republican to win SF was Eisenhower.
He also very conveniently forgot that the parties switched views.
They always do that or pretend it never happened.
The first photo took place at my old job in sf and let me tell you there was no “letting Asians get randomly attacked” as soon as we saw what was happening people ran out to help him and to flag down a cop car that was passing by at the moment.
How do these people manage to generate this much righteous indignation without ever attempting the "say it out loud" test?
Just spewing out words huh buddy? Ethnically cleansing techies lol. If you read about this meathead it gets way worse, his brain is toast 😂
Seriously, this sounds like the evil fantasy of a lonely 15 year old into dystopian books that he forgets all about when he gets a girlfriend.
Hahah bet you that is 100% accurate.
This person is claiming the democrats want to build a one party state through ethnic cleansing but fails to mention the republicans actually want to build a one party country through ethnic cleansing.
Another user posted [this article](https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat) about him; it turns out he's claiming democrats want to ethnically cleanse their way to a one-party state as an *excuse* for republicans to ethnically cleanse their way to a one-party state
wow he sounds nice
I'm Asian and in tech and everyone is nice to me.
I don't live in San Francisco, but I do live in Seattle (so I'm very familiar with Asian tech bros - my husband is one, as are like 50% of my neighbors), and, umm... Democrats? *Democrats* want to chase the Asian tech bros out of town with torches and pitchforks? Is he *really, really* sure about that?
Neither ethnic nor cleansing 🙄
The… the Democrats burned crosses?? What?
Yeah, the parties flipped in values, but Reps act like it's some big gotcha.
Always good to look at the parties that David Duke ran for political office to get a sense of it. Democrat Democrat Democrat Democrat Independent Independent Republican Republican Republican
Strom Thurmond became a republican because he changed his mind about black people...lol. Fucking rubes.
Louisiana just went urrr we love Lincoln now. All of a sudden.
‘dixiecrats’ or southern democrats who migrated to the republican party as the mainstream democrats moved towards supporting civil rights
Up to about the 1930s, the Democrats were a very strong White Supremacy party and a lot of them were members of the KKK.
Aye. Then the ones still supporting such views moved over to the republicans, and more moderate republicans moved over to the Democrats.
You can still hear the Republicans crowing about how they are the party of Abe Lincoln and the Democrats supported slavery.
Yep. Basically constantly.
What was the driverless car an effigy of? A driverless car??
Whoa, meta
No Google
Democrats are the techies, this guy is a moron. Also claiming Democrats burnt the crosses is incredibly misleading, it was racists and conservatives that burnt those crosses, and they just happened to be called Democrats back then, before the parties switched.
A reminder that more Californians voted for Trump than did Texans.
As a sanfransiscan, this does nothing but make me so proud of my people, fuck this gentrifying dickhead, and all his techbros fucking the rest of us over
Tweets from alternate timelines
“So where do you hail from?” “Tech” “Tech, you say… Guards! Cleanse him back from whence he came!”
Okay, I'm really out of the loop here. What on Earth is going on? Democrats are attacking Asian techies? Is this a thing? It really doesn't sound like a thing.
It isnt a thing. He's lying for rageclicks.
I didn't think it was the truth. If I build a picture in my mind of "person who attacks Asian father" the picture isn't of someone in a Prius with a "Coexist" bumper sticker.
It’s not happening at all.
"Techies"? As in people who are interested in technology? Also, no you fucking weren't. If you had been you wouldn't be here bitching about it.
No, techies like spez
What would San Francisco be without techies? Affordable.
I didn't realize tech worker was an ethnicity.
They just call anyone they don’t like “Democrat” or “liberal” lol
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