The #CalifornianIdeology:
"This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech industries of #SiliconValley. Promoted in magazines, books, TV programmes, websites, newsgroups and Net conferences, the Californian Ideology promiscuously combines the free-wheeling spirit of the #hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the #yuppies. This amalgamation of opposites has been achieved through a profound faith in the emancipatory potential of the new information technologies. In the #digitalutopia, everybody will be both hip and rich. Not surprisingly, this optimistic vision of the future has been enthusiastically embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, innovative capitalists, social activists, trendy academics, futurist bureaucrats and opportunistic politicians across the USA."

http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484

this is what happens when #GenX #yuppies run the world.

every single GenX milliardaire is a "fuck you, got mine" genocidal maniac; groomed by corporatists to be the sociopaths they are today.

yuppies promised they'd use #globalization to turn Life into money with tech. now, those who don’t control the tech ―we, the capital-less masses―, are financial soylent green to them.

SOLAR PUNK
TECH SOVEREIGNTY
COOPERATIVISM
DE-FINANCIALIZED MUTUAL AID

is how we fight yuppie scum & #fascism

Generation X was right to label #yuppies as scum. what we failed to do was to clearly identify them as fascists and fight them as the corporatist waste of oxygen they are.

am going into my sixties with the battlecry, DEATH TO YUPPIES.

never ever believe the fascist lie that you can never get radicalized in old age. there’s always time to awaken from your gringo-manufactured stupor and fight #fascism.

@RAHU

“One must have povo peeps to serve one upstairs or in the shops I suppose; so long as they avoid our lifts, gym and pool; only use the tradesmen’s entrance with the bins in the back or stay away, downstairs ?”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/06/poor-doors-affordable-housing-tenants-have-to-use-back-entrance-to-access-barangaroo-apartments

#ApartmentApartheid #Barangaroo #Capitalism #housingcrisis #landlords #poordoors #rent #segregation #Yuppies

#TIL the term #yuppie, or at least the "yup" part, is an #acronym for "young #urban #professional". While the sort of people I interview in #rural #Louisiana for my #research are obviously not #yuppies -- I blame my lack of knowledge on the term on that -- a surprising number of these #francophones and #creolophones are white collar #professionals, specifically many are #teachers, #principals, and #lawyers.

#linguistics #etymology #lexicology #sociolinguistics

🔗

#PDX #yuppies #portland #oregon #orpol #classwar #realtors #realestate #livingroomRealty #landlords #lateCapitalism #conspirituality #portlandRent #rent #housing #yuppie #austerity #liberalism

this sucks, man.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/08/portland-police-expect-jail-to-be-big-part-of-their-response-to-new-law-recriminalizing-drug-possession.html

> Portland Police Chief Bob Day on Friday said he expects using police to address low-level drug possession will lead to a “high likelihood” that officers will have to use force in some arrests and that intoxicated people with significant medical conditions may die in custody.

#pdx #portland #oregon #PortlandOregon #orpol #pnw #warondrugs #m110 #measure110 #massincarceration #ppb #ppa #yuppies #acab #portlandpolice #societyhotel

Embarrassing. Lack of healthcare, massive inequality, mass incarceration, prison slavery (etc) are “blight[s] on society”, not fucking graffiti.

PPA & PPB’s political games are paying off to the detriment of everyone. https://youtu.be/ZVHKPLcDuKo?si=pD-GUpQajJWalgIO

#pdx #portland #oregon #graffiti #yuppies #kgw #kgwnews