{"id":102729,"date":"2026-05-29T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102729"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:24:34","slug":"progressives-suddenly-weve-gotta-protect-our-phony-baloney-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/29\/progressives-suddenly-weve-gotta-protect-our-phony-baloney-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives, suddenly – “We’ve gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies to Mel Brooks for hijacking that line from Blazing Saddles<\/em>. On the social media site formerly known as Twitter<\/em>, signs of panic<\/a> from the media and media-adjacent progressive ranks as they realize Silicon Valley is an existential threat to their media monopoly:<\/p>\n

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    Tim Shipman<\/strong> @ShippersUnbound\n<\/p>\n

    One aside on the Blair conversation<\/em><\/p>\n

    I’m absolutely gobsmacked at the level of hostility to “tech bros” and the belief that we can just insulate ourselves from AI and technology <\/em><\/p>\n

    Like listening to weavers on the spinning Jenny or Hanson cab drivers on the advent of the motor car<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n

    Look this isn’t complicated. <\/p>\n

    The left hates you because they’re (correctly) worried AI is going to replace the “work” they do for their comfortable professional-managerial class sinecures, while at the same time they are (correctly) concerned that AI generated video will completely neutralize the remaining cultural influence they wield via their control of entertainment media. <\/p>\n

    The right (correctly) views you with suspicion and contempt because you already replaced white men with H1Bindians, which hurt us economically, and also enshittified the Internet, which was further enshittified due to your perfidious collaboration with leftists during the peak of the Great Awokening’s censorship and deplatforming push. <\/p>\n

    Despite your years of service to them, the left wants to immolate your headless corpses on funeral pyres built from your burning data centres, merely because you MIGHT be a threat to them in the near future. <\/p>\n

    Despite your record of pusillanimity, the right — some of us — are willing to work with you. That is a godsend for you, because we are literally your only defence right now.<\/p>\n

    But we have conditions, and those conditions are not negotiable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Apologies to Mel Brooks for hijacking that line from Blazing Saddles. On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, signs of panic from the media and media-adjacent progressive ranks as they realize Silicon Valley is an existential threat to their media monopoly: Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound One aside on the Blair conversation I’m absolutely gobsmacked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,53,15],"tags":[1506,262,1563,554,95,1020,269,101],"class_list":["post-102729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-culture","tag-enshittification","tag-immigration","tag-jobs","tag-progressives","tag-propaganda","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qIV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102732,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102729\/revisions\/102732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}