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Peter1469
07-22-2014, 04:29 PM
OK, this has two articles. The first one is about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley. Wealthy people with large carbon footprints giving donations to Greenpeace to feel better about themselves.... The second article is about Rand Paul's recent speech there. He seems to have won some of them over.

1. Hypocrisy of Silicon Valley liberals: (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383289/valley-shadow-victor-davis-hanson)


Silicon Valley is an American success story. At a time of supposed American decline, a gifted group of young entrepreneurs invented, merchandized, and institutionalized everything from smartphones and eBay to Google and Facebook. The collective genius within a small corridor from San Francisco to Stanford University somehow put hand-held electronics into over a billion households worldwide — and hundreds of billions of dollars in profits rolled into Northern California, and America at large.



Stranger yet, Silicon Valley excelled at 1950s-style profit-driven capitalism while projecting the image of hip and cool. The result is a bizarre 21st-century 1-percenter culture of $1,000-a-square-foot homes, $100,000 BMWs, and $500 loafers coexisting with left-wing politics and trendy pop culture. Silicon Valley valiantly tries to square the circle of driving a Mercedes or flying in a Gulfstream while lambasting those who produce its fuel.



2. Rand and Silicon Valley: (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/)


here’s a new apphttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) in Silicon Valley — conservatarianism. It’s the app that conservative Senator Rand Paul is pushing. He wants to join forces with local techies.


But how can technologyhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) and liberty flourish side by side? Paul’s answer, “shrink government.”


“Is government inherently stupid?” the Kentucky Republican the audience at the Lincoln Labs Reboot 2014. “I say no, but it’s a debatable question.”
Since Paul’s visit a new political term is being coded — the conservatarian… part conservative, part libertarian.




Silicon Valley entrepreneur Garrett Johnson organized Senator Paul’s visit.
“It’s not that I agree with him 100% of the time,” said Johnson. “I don’t agree with my parents 100% of the time, but I still go home for Christmas and Thanksgiving every year.”


“I call myself a conservative with libertarian leanings,” said Evan Baehr, co-founder of Able. “Conservatarian? It’s new for me, but it’s a fit.”

del
07-22-2014, 04:36 PM
hypocrites for rand

i like it

Mainecoons
07-22-2014, 04:50 PM
I saw that Pete. Thanks for posting it.

Peter1469
07-22-2014, 04:54 PM
It will be great if the Silicon Valley types turn to Paul.

Chris
07-22-2014, 04:54 PM
Another article on it: Rand Paul: Less Government, More Sharing Economy (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/22/rand_paul_less_government_more_sharing_economy_123 398.html):


...Though libertarian thinking may seem sink-or-swim, Paul showed how less government is good for the hip and trendy sharing economy. He hailed companies such as Uber and Lyft as "so popular you can't stop them."

While other Republicans evoke the good old days of the Grand Old Party, Paul looks to the future. "Capitalism steams on," Paul argued. Don't trash capitalism; without free markets, others won't be able to succeed.

The tech crowd ate up Paul's jeremiads on another case of big government: National Security Agency overreach....

Under-40s also go for Paul's long-standing criticism of excesses in Washington's war on drugs....

On foreign policy, Paul risks alienating traditional conservatives while drawing votes from the middle....

...Dennis told me that Paul holds socially conservative positions with which he personally disagrees. But he's on board because Rand Paul is "a pretty good gateway drug to the 'conservatarian' position."

Animal Mother
07-23-2014, 07:08 AM
I liked Ron Paul and never cared for Rand until Dems started whining about him and talking out their asses on his policies. That made him Epic.

Democrats have become as bad as Republicans the last 5 years so it's fun watching them have meltdown after meltdown.

Chris
07-23-2014, 04:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gftp95SqFm4#t=96

The Sage of Main Street
07-23-2014, 04:20 PM
It will be great if the Silicon Valley types turn to Paul. They're all parasites. Their employees create the product, so their employees should be the millionaires, not some guard who merely turned on the lights.

Peter1469
07-23-2014, 05:35 PM
They're all parasites. Their employees create the product, so their employees should be the millionaires, not some guard who merely turned on the lights.

Fix bayonets!

The Sage of Main Street
07-24-2014, 10:29 AM
Fix bayonets! Weapons are for Low IQs. We can hack into the plutes' bank accounts and wipe them out the intellectually evolved way. Infiltrate, sabotage, embezzle.

Peter1469
07-24-2014, 10:35 AM
Weapons are for Low IQs. We can hack into the plutes' bank accounts and wipe them out the intellectually evolved way. Infiltrate, sabotage, embezzle.

Oh!