The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

  • @meeeeetch@lemmy.world
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    274 months ago

    These kinds of guys have been active in California since basically as soon as it was granted statehood. The Big Four (a clique or robber barons) tried to rule over the state with the wealth they built up with the Central Pacific Railroad.

    One of them, Leland Stanford (of Stanford University), actually did become governor and eventually senator.

    Another, Charles Crocker, invented Californian NIMBYism with his infamous spite fence.

    • @Shyfer@ttrpg.network
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      74 months ago

      Interesting. It’s funny because California is always depicted as full of liberals, commies, and hippies by Republicans lol. Just because there was some Beatniks in San Francisco probably, and LA is a big city and those tend to go blue.