Comment by rcpt
1 day ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spe...
Even the billionaires were mostly donating to Kamala. Yes Elon was a giant blast of cash but his rightward shift is not representive of the industry.
And are we forgetting that Stephen Miller kicked him out anyway?
Tech religiously believes in science, education, immigration. The values are fundamentally incompatible with the right.
But for whatever reason the left has decided that we failed some purity test or simply wants to pick on "the nerds". I don't know what the strategy is here, but it doesn't seem like a good one.
The “nurture” explanation that I’m more inclined to, which is more optimistic, is that our culture changed, that people became risk-averse; science became feminized, bureaucratic, and regulated
... The Boomer kids were weaned off violent childhood literature like Tintin and the Hardy Boys and fed a diet of Dr. Seuss.
https://www.harvardsalient.com/p/interview-with-peter-thiel
One specific change that would accelerate drug development would be getting rid of the need for double-blind studies. If a drug is safe, you would just let people use it and not slow things down massively with a double-blind study.
Same link. Theres another interview with him - I can't remember which - where he proposes to test new Alzheimer drugs directly on patients because (paraphrased) they die anyway.
This does not sound like science.
Larry Fink exists. Wow I've just "unmasked" the true politics of banking.
Miller kicked him out due to ego clash, not some kind of incompatible politics.
Donating Harris does not make one left, much less far left. It is utterly centrist pro-business donation.
> Tech religiously believes in science, education, immigration.
It does not. There are plenty pro Musk, anti immigration, anti science anti education for all people here. Especially among leaders.
> Donating Harris does not make one left
What is the bar that you need us to meet?
Musk is spending billions again in 2026. Kicked out? He has never been more aggressive in influencing politics.