"We have a pretty bad incumbent in biden who's certainly not a very inspiring figure and very old," he says. "I would argue that he has like one or two good ideas and a lot of bad ones yeah because he's a crankYeah he is a crank i'm sorry in the old-fashioned sense." He also discusses his mixed feelings about covid moderation, saying some it does feel like censorship or unnecessary but sometimes rights do interlock if not conflict or at least require some kind of negotiating and complex thinking - this is what we're missing.
Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.
Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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