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Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
Hedging their bets on Trump surviving?
Interview: "The tech oligarchs behind Trump are also working to co-opt the Democratic Party."
Palantir is trying to "buy the California governor’s office by funding the candidacy of San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a right-leaning Democrat whose supporters include Trump-loving Palantir billionaire Joe Lonsdale."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/nerd-reich-comes-for-california/
#USPol #EUPol #California #BigTech #cdnPoli #Palantir #Thiel #JoeLonsdale .
>> Was UATX a hard-right project from the start? Based on my reporting, I don’t think it was. I was struck by the sincerity of the commitment to free speech and open inquiry from so many of the people with whom I spoke. A few were Trump supporters, but many more were best identified as anti-woke moderates or liberals. The university’s saga has a strong sense of historical contingency — that it could have gone quite differently had some high-leverage moments gone otherwise. <<
I disagree.
Although some of the names associated with the project at its beginnings might have had a sincere commitment to free inquiry, the presence of the billionaire technofascist Lonsdale as a founder and funder of this venture meant that it was always going to be nothing more than a right wing training camp.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688?
#USEducation #USPolitics #UniversityOfAustin #HigherEducation #Universities #Austin #Texas #JoeLonsdale
So there truly is no "merit" basis to Silicon Valley VC culture just smoldering racism that these billionaires can hardly keep to themselves.
It truly doesn't matter if people are communists or even capitalist to the Palantir founders, they are gleeful to be the digital boot on your neck.
So after these direct interactions with Lonsdale I'm deeply unsurprised by his latest statements and the companies overall role in Zionist genocide in Gaza.
After I published the above blog post about Joe's racist screed I started getting phone calls from CNBC, Tech Crunch and Forbes.
The latter two interviewed us and wrote stories. The first one actually had the story get killed by an editor with the stated reason given to me by the reporter being that "management doesn't allow negative press for Joe"

Black VCs say their white counterparts and other stakeholders should be louder in condemning those who make racially offensive remarks, as some feel the load of speaking out and advancing equity falls mainly on them.