Tim Miller and JVL discuss how Marc Andreessen unleashes a full-throated rant against DEI, immigration, the media, and what he sees as a cultural takeover by the left.
I believe our billionaires are saying what they have always believed. My Brother lives in suburbs outside chicago... Hinsdale. All his friends are insanely rich. They are the worst people I've ever met in my life. They have huge houses, belong to country clubs, own businesses and drink like fish and play golf. And they literally complain about being white all the time. They feel they shouldn't be taxed for some brown person's healthcare. Oh, and they all embrace Jesus but see zero connection to helping others. I had to sit at a dinner with these drunk jerks and listen. to them complain 10 years ago. It was hell and I left. I should have see how these rich privledged white men would manipulate the uneducated and pretend they are aligned with the common man. Their only common bond is the color of their skin to "real america". Look at the MAGA movement. They have the three branches of government and can't stop hating and complaining. The cruelty is the point and they won't stop. We have to stop them.
Victimhood x 10^17. That tribe has, over the past three or four decades, installed an Operating System in so many brains, and one of the primary functions of that OS is GET TO VICTIMHOOD IN 3 OR FEWER STEPS.
Totally agree with the point at the end about going to TPUSA and hiring those folks, but I would add what they really need to do is set up the Marc Andreesen Scholarship fund. If he's got enough money for mansions and servants and is worried about "his people" not getting into college he should drain his net worth setting up a fund to help those people get to college easier. Hell he could even open his own college and train them himself, free of charge of course to "his people"
It's very confusing to me why these types of white men get this way--so successful, but not willing to acknowledge the help and privilege they had along the way. Is it really just that they can't stand to think that many people think that they do not automatically 'deserve' all their wealth and that they should be taxed A LOT more and income inequality does need to be addressed? Or is it just they are man babies with thin skins?
So much for Noblesse Oblige..whether you were conservative, liberal or non political. I'm old enough to remember growing up in the afterglow of the WW2 victory. For awhile there the rich felt some guilt for the Depression and the rise of totalitarian militaristic countries like Germany and Japan...that didn't last long and when Reagan came in it was all about the super wealthy taking back the reins and helping themselves. Someone asked Warren Buffet in 2010 if there was class warfare in America and he said...."hell no, the Rich have already won"!
This is great. The Marc Andressen Robert Moses comparison is SO GOOD. JVL - sometimes your cynicism is irrational and kind of annoying. But this is gold. This is excellent.
So completely disgusting. I can’t believe that the George Floyd backlash has come to this. Sorry Marc, but my three white daughters received college educations in blue California. One at a UC, though at a much higher percentage of our family income than mine some thirty odd years earlier. One at a small catholic college, after scholarship and student loans about the same cost as UC. And the third at a state college because she always wants to do things her own way. State universities are the best route to success for middle class kids even with the funding cuts that started here under Reagan. I always hired people who had different backgrounds than mine because intelligence and drive are not prerogatives of white people. We need all the smart ideas from all the smart people to make it to the next century, not the revisionist nonsense of MAGA. Also I really enjoy the Triad, so thank you JVL!
All I could think after watching Andreessen spew was how utterly horrible he must be to live with. That made me feel so much better about my life, because I don't and never will have to live with him! Thank you, guys!
Feeling old here, maybe it’s that I’m the same age as Andreesen and from the same part of the Upper Midwest, but there’s a one-word code that’s not being picked up here, at least as to White people in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Bussing.
The original Kevin Phillips wedge issue. And his “Southern Strategy” having been good enough Richard Nixon break the Democrats 100+ year lock the Solid South in 1968, Andreesen and friends know how to play it today. As it was and ever shall be, it’s all about race.
100 percent Andreessen means Indian/Asian when he is talking about immigration and DEI. The tech field is full of Indian Asian/other Asian immigrants and their native born children at high levels. THIS is why he wants to cut immigration. He's looking around his field and it doesn't look like what it did when he started out.
I believe our billionaires are saying what they have always believed. My Brother lives in suburbs outside chicago... Hinsdale. All his friends are insanely rich. They are the worst people I've ever met in my life. They have huge houses, belong to country clubs, own businesses and drink like fish and play golf. And they literally complain about being white all the time. They feel they shouldn't be taxed for some brown person's healthcare. Oh, and they all embrace Jesus but see zero connection to helping others. I had to sit at a dinner with these drunk jerks and listen. to them complain 10 years ago. It was hell and I left. I should have see how these rich privledged white men would manipulate the uneducated and pretend they are aligned with the common man. Their only common bond is the color of their skin to "real america". Look at the MAGA movement. They have the three branches of government and can't stop hating and complaining. The cruelty is the point and they won't stop. We have to stop them.
Victimhood x 10^17. That tribe has, over the past three or four decades, installed an Operating System in so many brains, and one of the primary functions of that OS is GET TO VICTIMHOOD IN 3 OR FEWER STEPS.
Nice Supermanish attire JVL 😎
A wonderwall end ref... amazing!
Mark Andreessen = Power and Greed
(Different Travis then the one mentioned)
Totally agree with the point at the end about going to TPUSA and hiring those folks, but I would add what they really need to do is set up the Marc Andreesen Scholarship fund. If he's got enough money for mansions and servants and is worried about "his people" not getting into college he should drain his net worth setting up a fund to help those people get to college easier. Hell he could even open his own college and train them himself, free of charge of course to "his people"
It's very confusing to me why these types of white men get this way--so successful, but not willing to acknowledge the help and privilege they had along the way. Is it really just that they can't stand to think that many people think that they do not automatically 'deserve' all their wealth and that they should be taxed A LOT more and income inequality does need to be addressed? Or is it just they are man babies with thin skins?
Man babies. If they've seen the Fred Rogers acceptance speech from 1997, I guess they imagine themselves.
So much for Noblesse Oblige..whether you were conservative, liberal or non political. I'm old enough to remember growing up in the afterglow of the WW2 victory. For awhile there the rich felt some guilt for the Depression and the rise of totalitarian militaristic countries like Germany and Japan...that didn't last long and when Reagan came in it was all about the super wealthy taking back the reins and helping themselves. Someone asked Warren Buffet in 2010 if there was class warfare in America and he said...."hell no, the Rich have already won"!
This is great. The Marc Andressen Robert Moses comparison is SO GOOD. JVL - sometimes your cynicism is irrational and kind of annoying. But this is gold. This is excellent.
So good JVL!
So is that why he has failed to achieve the success he wanted?
DEI does that mean women are being given an unfair advantage.
Is he an "old guy" to everyone? He may be absurdly cranky but is he perceived as an old dude?
So completely disgusting. I can’t believe that the George Floyd backlash has come to this. Sorry Marc, but my three white daughters received college educations in blue California. One at a UC, though at a much higher percentage of our family income than mine some thirty odd years earlier. One at a small catholic college, after scholarship and student loans about the same cost as UC. And the third at a state college because she always wants to do things her own way. State universities are the best route to success for middle class kids even with the funding cuts that started here under Reagan. I always hired people who had different backgrounds than mine because intelligence and drive are not prerogatives of white people. We need all the smart ideas from all the smart people to make it to the next century, not the revisionist nonsense of MAGA. Also I really enjoy the Triad, so thank you JVL!
All I could think after watching Andreessen spew was how utterly horrible he must be to live with. That made me feel so much better about my life, because I don't and never will have to live with him! Thank you, guys!
Feeling old here, maybe it’s that I’m the same age as Andreesen and from the same part of the Upper Midwest, but there’s a one-word code that’s not being picked up here, at least as to White people in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Bussing.
The original Kevin Phillips wedge issue. And his “Southern Strategy” having been good enough Richard Nixon break the Democrats 100+ year lock the Solid South in 1968, Andreesen and friends know how to play it today. As it was and ever shall be, it’s all about race.
100 percent Andreessen means Indian/Asian when he is talking about immigration and DEI. The tech field is full of Indian Asian/other Asian immigrants and their native born children at high levels. THIS is why he wants to cut immigration. He's looking around his field and it doesn't look like what it did when he started out.