From: boron_elgar@hootmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:02:26 -0800, Snidely    
   wrote:   
      
   >Snidely pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   >> Saturday, Boron Elgar quipped:   
   >>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:32:40 -0800, Snidely    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Boron Elgar asserted that:   
   >>>>> Please- any of you still on FB or X really need to kick them to the   
   >>>>> curb.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Donald hasn't saved Tik Tok yet.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> /dps   
   >>>   
   >>> I admit that I have never really appreciated Tik Tok, but fully   
   >>> understand its appeal. Nevertheless, it is owned by ByteDance, and I   
   >>> ain't gonna fund 'em.   
   >>>   
   >>> Elon and Zuckie ain't gonna get my screen time, either. I wonder how   
   >>> bad Reddit is in the undergrowth....   
   >>   
   >> I've seen articles suggesting that many Silicon Valley heads have swiveled   
   to   
   >> the right, but I haven't tracked down who is or isn't.  I was surprised to   
   >> see Amazon on the list of big gifters to the Donald'c coronation plans,   
   >> because Bezos seemed very critical of Trump  the previous time around, and   
   >> bought the Washington Post to help with that.   
   >   
   >There was some '30s book critical of the rise of middle management   
   >which has apparently become something that influenced Musk.  A British   
   >author, IIRC, who saw the Nazi system as the way to avoid that.  A lot   
   >of bad predictions and analysis modern economists disagree with, but it   
   >rang a bell with Elon.  I need to re-find the article about that.   
   >   
   >/dps   
      
   https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-far-right-german-leader-we   
   del-hitler-communist/   
      
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