Mike Davis
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Oh yes. I think that, I mean, that was a phrase I, who knows who coins these things? People always claim, you know, ownership of a coinage, but I started referring to it that uh, referring to it as that recently. I mean, I, I think that it just became very obvious that that was what was happening once Elon took Twitter.
Um, and the sort of censorship ended and the false amplification of different stories ended and people just started talking more.
Um, and the sort of censorship ended and the false amplification of different stories ended and people just started talking more.
Um, and the sort of censorship ended and the false amplification of different stories ended and people just started talking more.
Uh, and I, I had been sort of saying a bit more before that feeling sort of isolated, but suddenly it was very apparent there were, there was a lot of support and, um, and it was not, it was not what we'd previously thought you needed him for it, especially now that it's in the white house.
Uh, and I, I had been sort of saying a bit more before that feeling sort of isolated, but suddenly it was very apparent there were, there was a lot of support and, um, and it was not, it was not what we'd previously thought you needed him for it, especially now that it's in the white house.
Uh, and I, I had been sort of saying a bit more before that feeling sort of isolated, but suddenly it was very apparent there were, there was a lot of support and, um, and it was not, it was not what we'd previously thought you needed him for it, especially now that it's in the white house.
I think tech employees definitely skew left. You can just look at the numbers in terms of political donations and things like that. It definitely overwhelmingly skews left.
I think tech employees definitely skew left. You can just look at the numbers in terms of political donations and things like that. It definitely overwhelmingly skews left.
I think tech employees definitely skew left. You can just look at the numbers in terms of political donations and things like that. It definitely overwhelmingly skews left.
But among the people who actually build things, so like founders of companies, both at the startup level and then at the sort of executive level of the giant companies, the publicly traded companies, there's just plenty of support for, I would say, common sense, pro-business, pro-technology type policies, which we just didn't really see any of. under the Biden administration.
But among the people who actually build things, so like founders of companies, both at the startup level and then at the sort of executive level of the giant companies, the publicly traded companies, there's just plenty of support for, I would say, common sense, pro-business, pro-technology type policies, which we just didn't really see any of. under the Biden administration.
But among the people who actually build things, so like founders of companies, both at the startup level and then at the sort of executive level of the giant companies, the publicly traded companies, there's just plenty of support for, I would say, common sense, pro-business, pro-technology type policies, which we just didn't really see any of. under the Biden administration.
In fact, you saw really, um, while Elon took over, over Twitter, took it, uh, private, you saw the Biden administration really kind of go after the technology industry. And once that happened, it was like, well, where do you go?
In fact, you saw really, um, while Elon took over, over Twitter, took it, uh, private, you saw the Biden administration really kind of go after the technology industry. And once that happened, it was like, well, where do you go?
In fact, you saw really, um, while Elon took over, over Twitter, took it, uh, private, you saw the Biden administration really kind of go after the technology industry. And once that happened, it was like, well, where do you go?
And I think that you had people like David Sachs out there waving his flag and, um, Peter Thiel, uh, my boss previously, like for years, like kind of, he put himself out there early on on Yes.
And I think that you had people like David Sachs out there waving his flag and, um, Peter Thiel, uh, my boss previously, like for years, like kind of, he put himself out there early on on Yes.
And I think that you had people like David Sachs out there waving his flag and, um, Peter Thiel, uh, my boss previously, like for years, like kind of, he put himself out there early on on Yes.
And then you had, and then you had Elon and it was just like very easy suddenly or not easy, but much easier than ever before for someone who disagreed with a lot of the sort of deranged excesses of the far left that you had seen before that to stand up and say, I don't agree with that shit. That's not what I'm here for. I'm.