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In SoylentNews' continuing coverage of the aftershocks of the US Presidential election, it appears that tech will factor large in a Trump administration:
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he's having trouble finding takers.
For the full story, consult the Washington Post article.
Some further tidbits:
Thiel, a libertarian who was shunned by his tech industry peers for being a Trump supporter, is pitching his personal network of entrepreneurs on the opportunity to influence an incoming administration that is somewhat of a blank slate when it comes to technology policy. Because Trump had so few ties to the world of tech, Thiel will have an unusually powerful influence on the new administration, the people familiar with his thinking said.
This much we already knew. Real estate development is ancient tech. Heck, Emperor Nero of Rome did it when he let Rome burn so he could build new condos! But there is resistance in the Valley of Silicon.
But in the liberal bastion of Silicon Valley — where Trump is despised and even admitting you're a Republican can hurt your candidacy for a job – that coveted opportunity has been fraught with challenges. And some people have turned him down altogether. Thiel declined to comment.
We may have reached the corporate defined limits of fair use, so I encourage one and all to read the complete WaPo article. I have not heard anything about an offer being made to The Mighty Buzzard yet, but it is in the range of possibility!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Arik on Monday November 28 2016, @07:50PM
From what I've seen, that's exactly what they do. Maybe YOU need to get out and meet some of these people yourself.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday November 28 2016, @10:32PM
Well, I'm still not sure the "SJW" actually exists. As far as I can tell it's just another faddy label dreamed up by some right-wing website or thinktank somewhere that can be slapped onto anybody they disagree with, in lieu of having to actually present an argument. If I ever do meet a real one though, I suspect I will find them to be as complex and nuanced as any other human being, and not the one-dimensional strawman stereotype that it is convenient for some people to reduce their political opponents to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @01:43AM
>I'm still not sure the "SJW" actually exists.
Read the guardian sometime, they exist. They seem to have gutted the left too, makes me smh to be honest fam, identity politics is a distraction, its not about identity, its about class, identity politics has only divided the left, the fight should be between the 1% and the rest of us, instead its about who is the biggest victim, we have been divided and we have been conquered.
These days I see no solution, the left has no answers and the answers from the right make me want to vomit.
So it goes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @04:26AM
>I'm still not sure the "SJW" actually exists.
Read the guardian sometime, they exist.
No, they do not. SJWs are like th boogey man for alt-right types. They need to define themselves as something other than a bunch of racist misogynist homophobic gays, so they invented the SJW. It is under their beds. It is opposing them at all levels. There are SJWs in the State Department, and Tailgunner Joe has a list! In other words, they do not exist. (Except, we are everywhere, we surround you. We are watching you. Especially jmorris, though I do not know why.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:23AM
I see what you did there.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 29 2016, @07:32PM
From what I've seen, that's exactly what they do. Maybe YOU need to get out and meet some of these people yourself.
So, "SJWs" should like Thiel, since he's a minority, but they don't. Hypothesis disproved.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:12PM
They absolutely hate Thiel and people like him - people that refuse to fit into the world as they define it.
One of the funnier videos of them has a whole mob of what appear to be mostly affluent, privileged, white college students stridently arguing with an older, black police officer. At first they respond to his skin color and try to appeal to his presumed solidarity, but when he disagrees with them they wind up dismissing his opinions and experiences and trying to lecture him on what racism means!
So what I see with them is a very strict, very naïve set of definitions and dogmas, essentially a creed, that they memorize and chant and drill into themselves. This removes all the doubt from their life, surely one of the reasons it's attractive to converts, and it's based on completely embracing identity politics, to the point that they deny that any other sort of politics is *even possible.*
Now if all politics is identity politics, then 'legitimate disagreements' aren't really possible. The only way someone could disagree with them on anything substantial would be by identifying with the oppressor rather than the oppressed. A black (or gay) conservative isn't just a human being with a right to make up his own mind on issues who has a habit of doing so in ways you have a habit of disagreeing with. No, he's a traitor to his own identity, he's a 'self-hating' $whatever, a danger to his community (isn't that the standard for getting the police involved?) and probably literally Hitler.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?