it would be less stupid to hear vcs say massive surveillance & data collection operations are bad if they weren’t the ones literally funding massive surveillance & data collection operations
“but one is backed by an authoritarian state with human rights abuses” yeah lots of stuff about china sucks lmk when u get mad about the absolute shitshow going on in this country, much of which has been enabled & accelerated by ur investments
you would not Believe the massive boner all these exact same people had for china’s hyperefficient cities & tech ubiquity 3 years ago what the fuck do u think those were built on