The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco [Left-wing editorial about counter-progressives]

The New Republic ^ | April 27, 2024 | Gil Duran

[nwrep]

To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.

[Wuli]

Hi tech is chock full of super high bloated egos that make them elitist no matter what is the rest of their politics, which makes them intrinisically “progressive” - that is “rule by the experts”.

[Berosus]

It sounds to me like Balaji wants to create a new kind of caste system, with Greys on the top, Reds in the middle, and Blues (the new Untouchables) at the bottom.

[Chickensoup]

I love VDH

But he has been late for every game

and not loud

Is that intelligence?

[thesligoduffyflynns]

🤔

[Elsie]

He has OUR vote!!

[GOPJ]

The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter.

That works for me...

[SunkenCiv]

He’s right about stripping the libs of power, he just hasn’t spelled out how to do that, other than, “we the Grays will rule”, a situation leaving all others in a status analogous to dhimmitude.

[unlearner]

This is a guy with a plan. Things do not always go as planned.

Joker: “I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan’. Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan’. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!”

Interesting article though.

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It was all fake. The tech guy was complaining that he and other Asians were being "ethnically cleansed" out of San Francisco, and the writer turned the quote around on the tech guy. More details (confusedly presented) here.