Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

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    Peter Thiel’s mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something

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    Oh hey, he’s saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.

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      Probably. If I were Vance, whether the Never Trump thing was genuine or I was just a power hungry asshole, I’d be positioning myself to look like the sane one in the administration so that I could remove Trump via the 25th in 2027 and be hailed as the guy who saved America from him. I’d also be egging Trump and Musk on to be as terrible as possible as publicly as possible.

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      Or how about Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel? Did he forget about him?

      Sounds like they want to limit “bad” tech companies but reward the ring kissers.

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        Upvoting you feels weird, but also KD Vances statement seems to have the opposite problem.

        You’re just stating the obvious. It would be like if some guy were saying “Our enemy has been breathing oxygen their whole LIFE!”

        And everyone scurries around like “oh my god! That’s less oxygen for the rest of us!”

        And then some other guy, thinking he’s revealing an unforseen statement says the most blatently obvious thing they could say.

        “GUYS! I THINK HUMANS MIGHT NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE! THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT!”

        Meanwhile I’m watching this all happen, and watching peoples reactions to everything, and thinking “I’m surrounded by morons on all sides. Which is worrysome, because I don’t feel like I should be above the average line. I’m just some guy. I don’t know things…but I feel like a 4th grader, in a school with no teachers, surrounded by toddlers. We’re in trouble if I’M the voice of reason in this world…”

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          Carlin already explained this phenomenon before he died.

          Think about how dumb the average person is. Then consider the fact that half of all people are even dumber than that!

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            You’d have to find the median, not the average, in order to have one-half dumber and one-half smarter.

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              IQ scores, by definition, are forced into a Gaussian distribution, which is symmetric, so the mean is the same as the median.

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              The median is an average. Mean, median, and mode are all considered forms of averages.

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          surrounded by morons on all sides

          worrysome

          The call is coming from inside the house.

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    Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)

    Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)

    Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)

    Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)

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      End genocide! (by encouraging them to finish the genocide already so we can build some hotels over the charred corpses)

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    Vance: But Peter, won’t everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?

    Thiel: Just tell them “tech people bad” or some shit, they’ll be none the wiser.

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    Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

    Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they’re cool.

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      All Big Tech is on their side though.

      This might be Vance lamenting he’s only Vice to the President, instead of Trump who gets to be Musk’s VP.