John Gruber has some weird takes but I think his support of corporations losing free speech rights to a power-drunk authoritarian-aspiring administration is pretty wild. "No one gets to tell the federal government what it can and can't do except for the federal government," sounds pretty bad, especially in a climate where our system of checks and balances lie in tatters. We're supposed to speak truth to power, not accede to the demands of power. After all of John Gruber's tough guy masculinity hero worship nonsense over the years maybe it shouldn't be a surprise he's on the side of the bully.
I like this post on BlueSky...
Hmm now talk about how state power should destroy other individual actors that amass too much power that threatens US Democracy in the form of private wealth.
Yeah they're not gonna talk about that. Ben Thompson and John Gruber are pro-capitalist bootlickers. We're talking about people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year sitting around doing fuck all. They're not about to rise up against the capitalist system that keeps them comfortable.
Maybe if Gruber gets the dick of capitalism out of his mouth for a second he could do some reading and opt to change his views. But who are we kidding?
