I was one of the dozen or so who photographed this event. The breakdown was about a third there for the march, a third there for counterprotesting, and a third there documenting the event.
> Kauffman, who recently left his tech job, has since been completely occupied with organizing Saturday’s march. He said he expected dozens to join him.
Wow these people have serious mental issues and are detached from reality:
> Annie is a software engineer, she told this reporter. She draws a six-figure salary but lives frugally in an “attic cordoned off with curtains” so that she can retire early. She said there was “no way in hell” she’d share her last name, because A) she could lose her job, and B) she did not trust reporters.
> “It is the intention of journalists to lie, which is why we need to not do anything to the journalists themselves, but we need to simply remove them as a class,” Annie said. “Just like Germany does to the extremist organizations.”
This looks a lot like someone eating up the rhetoric of Trump and Musk, who attack “legacy media” daily. It’s especially weird given that the person being discussed is trans and would encounter the vile hatred the far right has towards them. But I think many wealthier people like those in tech keep thinking they won’t be victims of this machine.
KZerda|21 days ago
starkparker|21 days ago
DerArzt|20 days ago
Getting a little to Arrested Development for me.
SilverElfin|21 days ago
> Annie is a software engineer, she told this reporter. She draws a six-figure salary but lives frugally in an “attic cordoned off with curtains” so that she can retire early. She said there was “no way in hell” she’d share her last name, because A) she could lose her job, and B) she did not trust reporters.
> “It is the intention of journalists to lie, which is why we need to not do anything to the journalists themselves, but we need to simply remove them as a class,” Annie said. “Just like Germany does to the extremist organizations.”
This looks a lot like someone eating up the rhetoric of Trump and Musk, who attack “legacy media” daily. It’s especially weird given that the person being discussed is trans and would encounter the vile hatred the far right has towards them. But I think many wealthier people like those in tech keep thinking they won’t be victims of this machine.
unknown|21 days ago
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