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@Orlaya@norden.social
No.
Burning man is full of tech people on every drug known to man. It's not full of fascists.
Drugs don't make you fashy. Fashy people do drugs. Because in America, lots of white folk do drugs*.
He didn't change. This is who he's been. The mask just slipped more.
(*Except Utah. Seriously! They're pulling down the white drug use prevalence average.)
I agree with your main point that he hasn't changed
However, "BM is full of tech people ... not fascists" doesn't seem to parse
The tech industry is more defined by its right-wingers than it is by progressives. Management tells it differently, but pretending to be the victim is a feature of authoritarian cultures.
So if it's full of tech people (like Elon) that's the same as saying it's full of fascists and fash-adjacent/fash-apologist/etc (like Elon)
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io@pleaseclap @Orlaya@norden.social
Most of the *people* in tech are progressive.
But most of the *money* in tech, is libertarian/fashy.
Yes, a lot of that fashy money goes to burning man.
But also, the queer white SRE from Portland with a John Brown calf tattoo, goes to burning man too.
@mekkaokereke @Orlaya I'm not saying there aren't any progressives, I'm saying "tech people not fascists" is a logical construction that assumes fashy tech people are the exception, when they're actually closer to the norm (especially at Burning Man, like you say)
You know what? You're right!