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The "Techie" Vote?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they're-just-starting-to-get-it dept.

Ironica writes "This Los Angeles Times article discusses a compelling trend: techies are making their collective voice heard in politics. Quote from the article: "After years as political agnostics, the programmers and engineers who orchestrated the technological revolution of the 1990s are trying to reboot government...They have money, earned during the boom. They have time, found since the bust. And they are using their technological savvy to recruit even casual Internet users to their causes." Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?""

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  1. Damn hippies! by //violentmac · · Score: 0, Troll

    My views aren't the same as the damn socialist-hippie-techies hippies.

    I'm a libertarian like Arnold. I support the US and W.

    I have NOTHING in common politically with most techies.

    And since the web is worldwide. I despise European Techies and their perverted brand of socialism.

    As a proud American, I ABSOLUTLY have NOTHING politically in common with europeans.

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    get jiggy w/ ayn rand!

  2. Re:Techies, Slashdotters, and voting by Cyno · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is interesting and what scares me is if groups of people like the NRA did not exist, I bet our 2nd amendment rights would be taken away.

    What does that mean for America?

    That we're dumb, IMO. We don't understand what we're doing here. Its like our founding fathers, our parents, who knew what was up, died and left us nothing but a worthless constitution written on hemp.

    So naturally we make Cannabis illegal. Just brilliant.