the propaganda machine of the left have done remarkably well at demonizing any- even extremely soft- right-wing/conservative values to such an extent that......https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1041383655443062784 …
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Replying to @rivatez
I hear this a lot, but it kinda seems to come down to "is rich" & "understands how wealth works" (a terrible skill to neglect when you actually have wealth). Seems like it's less about values & more about which bucket "wealthy person" gets placed in within the ID politics frame
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Replying to @webdevMason @rivatez
If you remove "fiscal conservatism," which afaict used to mean "small government" & now means "any reasonable understanding of how money works," what about SV techies looks right-wing at all? It's a stretch. They're not religious. They're not having kids.
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Replying to @webdevMason @rivatez
only dipping in to say wait lol they are *TOTALLY* religious, it's just a new religion - earth mother goddess shit, 'we are all one,' rigid creation and apocalypse myths framed with meaning (nihilistic birth, death by selfishness), hostile contempt for inconvenient science
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Replying to @micsolana @rivatez
I would totally buy that they're cognitively-determined pagans as a direct result of the same slightly wonky pattern-matching equipment that makes them good at whatever it is that keeps the lights on in San Francisco, but that's def not "right-wing" "religion"
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Replying to @webdevMason @micsolana
I think of ‘religion’ and ‘having kids’ as correlated by-products of right-wing values around respecting tradition, social norms & hierarchies, natural law etc. (but saying that- the religious, dynasty-building conservative faction in SV is growing too! They just aren’t tweeting)
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Seems reasonable, but IMO the closer you get to abstractions the more you realize political distinctions don't quite align with the offered axes. For liberals, "tradition" can be "distinct cultures," "social norms" = "top-down tolerance control," "natural law" = "civil rights"
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There's def a legit social conservative wing to SV, but it's overstated when salient events occur (see: anything Peter Thiel does ever) & only slightly understated the rest of the time. The rest are mostly social liberals who have a better than average understanding of wealth
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