“Really Profound Political Implications“?

the leaders of the tech world were never visionaries but the move toward being a seedbed for being obscurantist weirdos at best (fascist curious at worst, or just fascist) is a new turn with really profound political implications https://t.co/Y7WuklX0RH

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 4, 2023

“Really profound political implications”? Really?

How many people know who “Jack” is? Of that number, how many give a shit about his political views?

Elmo is more widely known; but if he’s a political player, Ron DeSantis is the second coming of Bill Clinton (and to be clear, on the stump DeSantis is the anti-Clinton. He’s a black hole of political charisma and human appeal.)

Zuckerberg apparently has political opinions, but they seem entirely related to Facebook accruing more power for itself (even as Facebook becomes the cable TV of the intertoobs: of interest only to an elderly and rapidly diminishing demographic).

A couple of tech bros promoting fascism has profound political implications? Let me just cite Jen Psaki:

.@jrpsaki: There’s a hostage taker named Kevin and a hostage negotiator named Joe…

Does a lede like “Kevin and Joe work collaboratively to release hostages – a sign of finding common ground and a promise of things to come” make any sense? No, it does not. pic.twitter.com/GCHi89r5CU

— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) June 4, 2023

The true “profound political implications” are Joe Biden’s lifetime of political knowledge and skills at both politics and how to make government work. Elmo can barely keep a car company going, blows up his rockets, and grossly overpaid for a once important social media company and is driving it into the ground because it is now primarily attractive to incels and white supremacists.

Citing a steady stream of customer service issues, screw-ups, lies, hate-speech and disinformation, large companies continue to pull ad dollars. One fake Disney account got a gold verification check and started posting racial slurs. https://t.co/DbZf8ySDDa

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 5, 2023

What about any of that spells “success,” either in business or politics? And Jack? Most of the country still doesn’t know who Jack is. The few who do mostly know him as the guy who sold Twitter to Elmo. What are the really profound political implications in that?