623: It’s About Human Connection
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I wanted to I wanted a brief political statement to start this because, you know.
Oh, great. Yeah. There's nothing going on there these days.
Yeah, I think. And, you know, forgive me. This is something I wrote 10 minutes ago. So, you know.
Oh, it's that kind of Marco political statement. Oh, my reading from a prepared statement.
Yeah. Very, very – it's still hot. I guess that's where hot takes come from. Is that the phrase?
Is that it? I actually never realized that.
Probably. Oh, that's funny. Anyway, a lot of people are very upset right now with what's going on with – The inauguration, the beginning, and all the executive orders, and it's going to be rough for a while. And I think what we have to try to keep in mind is that the Republican agenda is wealth transfer to the top. That's the big thing. To accomplish and conceal that, they gain votes and power by division, cruelty, and violence. But the goal is the wealth transfer to the top. If you look at what they actually do, that's mainly it in different forms. Tax cuts to the corporations, tax cuts to the rich, straight up corruption, which is now even more right in the open than anything. But also things like large-scale deregulation, regulatory capture, and the politicization of the justice system. Yeah. I think the latter part there, that is why it seems like we are seeing a very sharp and aggressive turn to the right by all the big tech companies.
They all are now explicitly supporting the Republican Party to, in my view, to selfishly benefit from the wealth transfer and deregulatory aspects. And the price they paid to get those gains is to completely sell their souls and their morals out by therefore also supporting the division, cruelty, and violence that Republicans require as a smokescreen and a source of power. This is going to be something we're going to be fighting and angered and hurt by and possibly damaged by from any of us for a long time now. And I don't know how to fix it. There is no quick and easy fix. We can't just turn all of our avatars blue or put stickers on our cars and expect anything to change. What I suggest that we do is practice the opposite of their playbook.
So what's the opposite of division, cruelty, and violence? Generosity, acceptance, love, and protection. And I think we need to embody those in what we preach, what we do, and as tech people, what we build. You know, right now, women, anybody who's not white, LGBTQ people, trans and non-binary people are all under attack by these monsters. Those of us who can support and protect someone who needs support and protection really need to now. So generosity, acceptance, love, and protection. That is the best thing we can do to get through this for now. And that's how we can fight it so we can turn this horrible, toxic mess around. And we'll do our best from our position here. We'll do our best. And all of you out there, I encourage you do the same and we'll do what we can to get through this and help people who need help.
Yeah, I concur. Marco did not run this by us, not to say that we needed to approve it or anything, but he didn't tell us that this was going to happen until 10 seconds ago. We didn't read it or anything beforehand.
You don't have your statement ready?
No, I don't. I don't. But I completely agree with you. The only problem I have with it is that, what did you say? Generosity, acceptance, love, and protection. GALP is not the best acronym. I think we need to workshop it a little bit.
Maybe more than 10 minutes of writing would get me a better one.
But in general, I'm obviously snarking and joking around, but all kidding aside, this is a real crappy time for a lot of people. And the typical feedback we get when we talk about political stuff is either A, stay in your lane, which I'm sorry, we've been doing this for 10 years. It's not going to happen. Also, have you heard our show? We don't have lanes. It's also true. So yeah, so the feedback is simply A, stay in your lane, or B, haha, you liberal snowflakes. It's not going to bother you. Who cares? And on the surface, there's a little bit of truth to that because we're three cisgendered white dudes that have a couple of shekels to our names.
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