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Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley
An anonymous reader writes "Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini, who counts Google as one of his clients, sketches out a way that the GOP could 'win back' Silicon Valley — but he gets smacked down by tech businessman Francis Cianfrocca. 'Patrick's basic thesis is that the VC firms that fund the Valley will rebel at being regulated by [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner, who is talking about increasing reporting requirements for both private equity and venture capital. Assuming I understand them both correctly, something tells me that neither Geithner nor Ruffini understand deeply what venture capital is all about.'"
You do realize that the tax rates on those in top 5% were higher in 1940s-1980s than today, right?
Trust me, no one in the top 5% has ever worked a hard day in their life.
It's modded troll because the moderator in question is likely severely mentally retarded, probably with some sort of weird spasms or seizures, and is sat down in front of the computer to gyrate endlessly whilst simultaneously crapping his pants.
Maybe he forgot to put the do-rag on his greased-up Yoda doll before he inserted it into his ass.
p.s. Fuck the moderators,
Fuck Apple,
Fuck Microsoft,
Fuck the Swedish court system,
Fuck corporate America.
1) Don't forget: the vast majority of college professors are unabashed liberals, if not outright socialists. This is because there are many fields where a doctorate is easy to get (take some surveys, fudge some statistics, write a "research thesis" paper that supports the groupthink of most of the people on the committee) and of no practical value outside of going into a career as a professor and then continuing the cycle of indoctrinating young minds into the groupthink .
College long ago stopped having any notion of teaching kids to think and research independently, and became about telling them WHAT to think instead.
The vast majority of undergrad kids idolize the professors. They're supposed to show up in class and regurgitate back the class content. Much like in the grade schools prior to college, independent thought isn't encouraged, it's something to be stamped out at all costs.
There was a time, of course, when it wasn't this way. Unfortunately, at some point the left wing realized that if they could control the schools, they could control young minds. The result? As written in "The Naked Communist" (by Cleon Skousen), and entered into the 1963 Congressional Record, I give you Goal #17 and 18:
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
Seen your college newspaper lately? You're in for an eye-opener or three. (While you're at it, look up the aforementioned goal and check out goals 26, 29, 40, and just for a lark, 44).
2) Most people today wouldn't know what libertarianism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, or any other similar terms meant even if you slapped them upside the head with a dictionary open to the correct page. That's what you get when they come through the joke of a "public school system" we have today, which is void of any proper (read: unbiased and analytical) classes on governmental theory, civics, and economics.
Hell, we let people graduate from High School today lacking the basic (what used to be 3rd or 4th-grade level) arithmetic and reasoning skills to balance their own fucking checkbook, and then we have "social scientists" trying to come up with explanations as to why so many people got into bad loans and way over their heads in debt. Here's a minor clue: they are too fucking stupid and uneducated to manage their own financial affairs.
Nope, they don't. They just do things like amass huge amounts of wealth by inventing the PC, Internet search engines, and iPods. What is it that the conservatives do again? Oh yeah; start wars, invent Walmart, inhale exhaust fumes at NASCAR. I'll go ahead and remain a hippie, thanks. Ya'll can keep Sarah Palin and Heidi Montag!
Silicon Valley will never be a GOP stronghold, because creative people are rarely conservative. And this town is fueled by creative people, because without them it would no longer be Silicon Valley.