and then it proceeds to collapse in 2 years because it does everything the existing thing did but faster, and the existing thing had its own problems that the computer thing didn't really address besides "we put it on the computer"
“Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers” -vivek ramaswamy
“Somebody got stuffed in a locker” -some CNN panelist
“you can’t just say americans are mediocre!” -the reat of the far right movement
this is such a fucking immigrant ass thing to say tho. literal revenge of the nerds r/atheism stemlord shit. it's really funny that the upper echelons of american government is succumbing to a jock vs nerd fight
see, the silicon valley strand of nerd fascism will never be popular because it's too fucking nerdy. it only works for techbros and techhoes who think they're better than everyone else because they have a stem degree and are paid a bunch of money.
whereas fascism is inherently exclusionary, you can pick which groups you want to exclude. maga fascism excludes nonwhite people and there's a lot of white people who like that. nerd fascism excludes anyone who isn't a silicon valley or nyc techbro and now you are left with not that many people tbh
the thing that voters hate to hear is "player skill issue" even if it's true. whether it's liberals or conservatives saying it or hearing it, voters hate being berated. voters want their validation uwu they want to be told they're sooo heckin valid, it's those baddies over there that did this to youuu, im going to fix all your problems you cute little flor- okay so yeah basically uspol 101 coddle your voters
the conservatives used to work around it by being like "you too can work hard and be rich!" but now it's increasingly clear that that isn't how things work, even to a lot of maga types, so now they deflect by shitting on The Minorities
there's a reason a lot of people in AOC's district also voted Trump -- they both present themselves as less out-of-touch than their oppponents. whether this is true is up to your own debate, but "realness" appears to be a key issue. we have once again reinvented "i would have a beer with X politician" politics
haha geddit cuz like, my server crashed, so i dont have a server, and like,this account is like @astrid@fedi.astrid.tech if she didn't have a serverwait a minute