1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz i dont think the billionaires count as "nerds" if they're not building trains or theme parks or something. i dont think they're even computer literate? these are still jocks.
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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz i dont think the billionaires count as "nerds" if they're not building trains or theme parks or something. i dont think they're even computer literate? these are still jocks.
@nycki Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk, the Googles, Ellison... they're all nerds.
Bezos and Cook may not be native nerds but they're uncool enough to qualify.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle
"There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long: People."
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle @Taco_lad Technofascists aren’t nerds.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Most of the ones that aren't libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle They picked the wrong nerds. Put train nerds in charge!
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle that was a good movie.
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@thomasbeagle Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Most of the ones that aren't libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.
@Elizafox I know, we were wrong! So very wrong.
Hell, I was once a libertarian myself until I grew up.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle @ojala Nerds aren't ruling the world
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@Niall Musk for sure is a nerd. Trump might be one of the symptoms/outcomes of the nerd takeover (i.e. the Facebook problem).
@thomasbeagle @Niall he is a Tech Bro, we are not the same
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@nycki Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk, the Googles, Ellison... they're all nerds.
Bezos and Cook may not be native nerds but they're uncool enough to qualify.
they're not nerds. they're investors cultivating a nerd image
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@thomasbeagle Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Most of the ones that aren't libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.
"Most sci-fi authors"? I think that's your preconceived biases speaking.
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"Most sci-fi authors"? I think that's your preconceived biases speaking.
@skjeggtroll @Elizafox I read that as "Heinlein" and his ilk.
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle "If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself."
Mikhail Bakunin "God and the State" (1871)
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle turns out whoever the ruling class is, they're still rulers
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@thomasbeagle Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Most of the ones that aren't libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.
@Elizafox @thomasbeagle I wish people read and understood Cyberpunk novels instead of liking the aesthetics of them. William Gibson was scathing in his critique of Capitalism.
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
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1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle
Somehow, billionaire nerds manage to pick all the wrong role models — I mean, non-billionaire readers really don’t jump to the conclusion that a palantír in every street corner of Minas Tirith is the way to make Gondor great again. -
1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!
2020s: Nope.
@thomasbeagle idk, these are nazis, not nerds. nerds are smart?
