Big Tech Vs. Democracy – Yanis Varoufakis Takes on Google's Tim Nguyen

Liberals and leftists have the propensity to be sanctimonious hypocrites more so than other political types because the left side of the political spectrum operates under self-assumed universal moral superiority while espousing moral relativism.

You can see this in a lot of the pro-immigration/globalist discourse—it’s moral to help people from other nations, it’s immoral to care about effects on local communities, border integrity, or national sovereignty. There’s a complete lack of empathy for blue collar labor which suffered job losses and industry shifts due to outsourcing; they were just told to learn to code.

Big tech leftists and liberals are especially disingenuous because they know that corporations need to be taxed more, but they never actually say that, all the while making inane memes about capitalism. Socializing big tech is only going to centralize power for the government, which ever party is in power. Instead, it’s probably more advantageous to break big tech up into pieces that are still useful to the economy, but don’t allow them to offshore operations easily.

People used to just make “freeze peach” memes when conservatives were getting blacklisted from hosting sites, or were taken off Twitter. Meanwhile leftist propaganda about violence against police has always been left up without moderation, even before Trump ever became a politician. Social media in general is softly permissive towards enabling leftist extremism, and search engines used to feed into that too before conservatives cried about “alternative” viewpoints. No one took that seriously before Trump came into power in 2016.

I am well aware about how disingenuous conservatives can be, but imagine if a Democratic presidential candidate was removed off Twitter like Trump, it would have been decried as the end of democracy itself. Meanwhile leftists are left pearl-clutching if you say they’re authoritarian.

If instead everyone all along the political spectrum was less interested in tribalism, we’d all be better off for it.

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