Jemin Na’s Reviews > Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley > Status Update
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"Independent media didn't exist in Saudi Arabia, so it was important for the regime to be able to properly police and manipulate new social-media platforms like Twitter. The Saudi gov. established cubicle farms full of paid pro-regime trolls, who threatened dissents, spread nationalist propaganda, and tried to game trending to pics to emphasize gov. friendly stories (and suppress critical stories and hashtags.)"pg.51
— Apr 29, 2026 05:21PM
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"[Sacks and his fellow travelers] were angry, they wanted the government to work for them again, while simultaneously seeing it as incapable of doing much good." pg.69
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Isn't woke just being accepting and tolerant of different groups and beliefs? I don't understand why that's so bad.
— May 11, 2026 05:41PM
Jemin Na
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Hey Mr. Rabois, go fuck yourself.
And why do you live? This is not a philosophical question. lol
pg.62
— May 07, 2026 05:31PM
And why do you live? This is not a philosophical question. lol
pg.62
Jemin Na
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Chapter 6 ends on a cliffhanger and a clear narrative emerges. in that order I think. I felt the cliffhanger and then acknowledged the narrative. But experience and confirm it yourself.
It seems like the author has been building this point from the previous chapters that discuss the Silicon Valley billionaires, Musk, Twitter and Saudi authorities.
— May 06, 2026 05:39PM
It seems like the author has been building this point from the previous chapters that discuss the Silicon Valley billionaires, Musk, Twitter and Saudi authorities.
Jemin Na
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"The free-speech absolutist said nothing about Saudi Arabia's abuse of his platform. Perhaps he was simply unaware." pg. 56
— May 05, 2026 05:31PM
Jemin Na
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"In the years since Dorsey and MBS shook hands, little changed. Twitter's management never took public responsibility for the spying or for the outrageous fact that one of its biggest outside investors regularly arrested people who posted even mildly political remarks on the platform." pg. 55
They made in June 2016.
— May 05, 2026 05:25PM
They made in June 2016.
Jemin Na
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"In full public view, it seemed to many observers as though Musk was being radicalized by the online right, being baptized into their ranks. And some of his friends and peers followed. On X, they engaged with the same Nazis and boutique far-right subcultures--misogynist gamers, ultra-libertarian techies, and incel-worshipping Groypers (a subgroup of white-nationalists internet trolls led by Nick Fuentes)." pg.43
— Apr 28, 2026 05:39PM
Jemin Na
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"There are many other revealing anecdotes one could cite--demonizing migrants, amplifying far-right ideologues, happily engaging with Nazi accounts...He restored many once-banned accounts, including those belonging to "Groyper" leader Nick Fuentes, whose followers littered their feeds with content denigrating Jews and women and glorifying Adolf Hitler." pg. 39-40.
— Apr 27, 2026 05:31PM
Jemin Na
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"[Silicon Valley elites'] worldview upheld the pretense that creative destruction and technological innovation were synonymous with progress. If expertise were worthless--because the experts themselves represented the corruption of the ancien régime--then tech was salvific force. And the people leading the tech vanguard were the ones doing the saving." pg. 37
— Apr 24, 2026 05:33PM
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"If billionaires weren't elites, or if managers and stewards of capital weren't much different from you and me, then real power distinctions wouldn't exist." pg. 30
"A general lack of class consciousness meant that some still subscribed to the fiction that a tech billionaire could be a populist threat to the establishment, just as Trump supposedly was." pg. 30-31
— Apr 23, 2026 05:30PM
"A general lack of class consciousness meant that some still subscribed to the fiction that a tech billionaire could be a populist threat to the establishment, just as Trump supposedly was." pg. 30-31
