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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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mattdpearce.com
A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it.
jwherrman.bsky.social John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Jan 17
delusional, paranoid, or just weapons-grade cynicism?
Andreessen: So maybe just the short thing I’ll tell you about 2016 to 2020, there were a series of additional 10-X-ing events — of radicalism and intensity of all the politics. And so it was Trump’s nomination, it was Trump’s election, and then it was Russiagate. It was like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And then of course, Covid hits, which was a giant radicalizing moment. And at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution. Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution. The employee base is going feral. There were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies I know felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses by their own employees.
January 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM