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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

We have a single region that has been rebellious and trying to corrupt and destroy the rest of the union since the founding

Isn't a ton of the current Trump administration rot coming from Silicon Valley?

Isn't Silicon Valley in California?

Lincoln was wrong to readmit the south

The South was under the Reconstruction plan, complete with Marshall Law and Freedman's Bureaus and all sorts of additional federal oversight, untilThe Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency at the cost of his soul.

Lincoln didn't simply readmit the South. He readmitted 9 million enslaved Americans as proper first class citizens. And the initial wave of democratization gave birth to a brief but generally optimistic egalitarian glimpse of a potential future.

Lincoln's big mistake was not putting Smedly Butler into his VP seat. Letting the country revert to Andrew Johnson was the big blunder. One that Grant had to spend two terms mopping up.

But that's all distant history. The modern fascist presidency is born out of Manhattan Island. The modern Texas/Florida/Ohio Axis of Evil is a product of Yale Business School. Stanford Alumni are fucking us up far more today than some Daughters of the Confederacy could have dreamed.

This isn't a North/South problem. It's a turf war between extractive industry and the professional class.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, because if there's two things we know silicon valley loves it's the core issues of the Trump administrafion:

  1. Immigration restrictions

  2. Tariffs

He was voted in purely about the south, who are not only fascists to the core (if what they consider to be Christo-fascists).

The thing is: their religion, the southern Baptist church, was founded because they wanted a religion whose core dogma was that slavery was a commandment from God. Hence their basing the Sbc around the curse of Ham justifying slavery. The nazis themselves based the Nuremberg Laws off Jim crow, only without the 1 drop rule.

This is 100% the south, the restriction of women's rights, the anti-lgbt, racism, isolation ism.

They've been sold that Russia is their best ally because it is the last True (read: white) Christian Nation fighting against the atheist and Muslim hordes who have infested Europe.

Silicon valley doesn't want any of this bullshit, they just want less regulation. This has been a nightmare for them, Europe is starting their own competitors and regulating the cloud providers.

Silicon valley is smart, this whole thing has the backwards inbred balls-over-brains energy of the south.

Show me one Manhattan anyone who thinks those tariffs are a good idea.

Super popular in the south though, finally those rich northerners will have to pay them to do the work, instead of buying stuff from the dirty Mexicans.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there’s two things we know silicon valley loves it’s the core issues of the Trump administrafion:

Immigration restrictions
Tariffs

Go pick up a copy of The Network State

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you fucking insane?

The ceos of most tech companies are Asian!

Google, Microsoft, Nvidia.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

trump is literally an immigrant, so.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

As is musk, and he stood up against the h1b thing pretty hard for 5 minutes.

They don't want to lose their slaves.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's cool, I love Smedley as well, greatest Marine ever.