• Billiam@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      From the article:

      they don’t just think they’re the smartest people in the world, they think that everyone else is stupid.

      And that sums up techbros in one sentence.

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        2 months ago

        You see this in action anytime people go “no no you just don’t understand how this works” as a way of sidestepping the overall issue. They try to bury you in the minutiae of it, and what’s “technically” possible without acknowledging that A) what’s possible will increase over time and B) the issue is not technology, it’s the intention of it and the motivations of the people behind it.

        It’s like trying to deconstruct the concept of a gun, talking about all its potential mechanical malfunctions, its capacity limits, the fact you have to aim it, and so on, all as a way of trying to downplay the danger of it being pointed directly at you.