r/technology • u/DontFearTheCreaper • 20h ago

Social Media Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-bezos-musk-zuckerberg-b2727147.html
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u/FaultElectrical4075 19h ago

The plan for who? This is gonna hurt lots of very rich people too. The only people who aren’t going to be severely hurt by these tariffs are crypto people and people directly involved in the Trump administration.

You guys have to realize that oligarchs/the ruling class are not a monolith. They are united against the ruling class, but besides that they are constantly in competition with each other. It’s a bunch of sociopaths trying to one up each other in a desperate quest for power. Unifying behind Trump is mostly them trying to protect themselves from his line of attack.

These things only seem like they were planned after the fact, because no matter what happens there are going to be winners and losers. But society is too chaotic with too many conflicting interests for a ‘plan’ of this scale to work out except by sheer luck.

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u/HiiiTriiibe 19h ago

Look into Curtis yarvin, there’s definitely something to be said for JD Vance’s and Thiels love of that man and his ideology, and tearing down the government is literally step one to creating the techno-fascist city-state system yarvin advocates for. These people are a legitimate threat to democracy and have every intention of ending it here

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u/Absolute-Nobody0079 19h ago

That kind of system must be vulnerable to a large scale military invasion...right?

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u/Resevil67 19h ago

Yeah that’s what I think. These are techbros with way to much money and time on their hands dreaming of turning the US into their little utopia. The only issue is they have the money and power to do it.

However splitting the US into little fiefdoms all ruled by a techbro would fracture the military and cause infighting on who gets the nukes and stuff IMO. This would literally make us very vulnerable to an invasion from China or Russia.

These guys aren’t smart. They are literally techbro frat boys getting high on themselves and thinking this will actually work.

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u/beardicusmaximus8 19h ago

They know exactly what they are doing. They are crashing the economy on purpose to replicate the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russia and China won't invade the US (they haven't got the capacity or the political will to invade across oceans) they just want the US out of their way so they can take control of what they see as their own backyard. The issue both of them take with the United States is they see us as imposing our own world order on everyone else. They figure if they let/help the techbros take over then they can go back to the Cold War style of power sharing. I mean, one of the points Trump tried to put on the negotiating table for Ukraine was that NATO would withdraw to pre-1991 boundaries. It's pretty transparent what they are trying to accomplish

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u/MindLikeaGin-Trap 19h ago

Someone shared an article about how they are hoping to flee to Greenland, which they feel that they can defend, and will also set them up with the resources they need to survive once they collapse everything. They're also hiring ex-military to protect them and, in the article, were wondering if they needed to fit their security with shock collars, because they were certain that their security would turn on them as well because they're planning on scarcity and taking all the resources for themselves.

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u/Sick-Phoque 15h ago

What a way to live

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u/trojan_man16 13h ago

Yeah “ Let’s destroy the very systems that made us this rich and powerful” so we can instead live in a bunker afraid that our bunker staff will murder Us every morning.

How out of touch you have to be to think this is a good idea?