(09-09-2020, 04:39 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-09-2020, 12:33 PM)David Horn Wrote:Oh well, whoever/whatever you get or end up with as a result won't be worth shit when the Left is done milking them for whatever they're worth today.(09-09-2020, 01:22 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-08-2020, 04:36 PM)David Horn Wrote: Right now, the tech giants in Silicone Valley are worth more than the entire European stock market, and the rest of the US markets too. We'll be fine.
How many American tech giants would you lose to an American Country like ours? I think the vast majority of them would opt to move and remain with America and side with America against the Left myself.
Maybe Facebook, and that's only a maybe. If it happened, Mark Zuckerberg would rue the day. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and Amazon aren't going anywhere, and most of the others won't go either. They may fear serious oversight and even antitrust action, but they can't operate without the tech weenies -- and those folks aren't joining "your America", period.
Many of those tech giants hire large numbers of Asian-Americans. From my experience, most are rather conservative in culture if not in politics. We often do not have so much a conflict of reactionary "white American" culture (as if white people were am monolith) and avant-garde "liberal" culture as we have a political conflict between your idea of what (conservative, white) culture and different manifestations of traditionalism. Asian-Americans make some concession to non-Asian culture -- such as listening to or even participating in Western Classical music. Beethoven may be more popular in Japan and South Korea than in Germany now.
But what am I to say? I prefer culture of elder vintage to stuff that seems unlikely to withstand a test of time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.