Silicon Valley is Full of Wealthy Men Who Think They're Victims

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said. ... "In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they're lucky, they think they're hard done by, [that] they're victims. I couldn't, and still can't, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity."

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Silicon Valley is the Scientologist's wet dream... and it shows.

#1 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-25 04:08 AM | Reply

They sure do whinny and whine a lot.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-25 06:31 AM | Reply

They sure do whinny and whine a lot.
#2 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

Well they are Lumpers. Donating millions every election. There's a reason Obama and Biden visit PageMill road types.

"Everyone wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, listens to the same podcasts, follows the same fads," Clegg said. "It's a place born of immense sort of herd-like behaviour."

This is funny, because this is true in any city in the US that I have visited. I call it the White Tesla & Kitchening of America.

I am sort of a counter-culture of Silicon Valley, living just outside it in aggie area, similar to my hometown in China. Drive a F-250 7.3L Diesel, and drive a Prius.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-25 10:22 AM | Reply

Silicon Valley is in CA, the state that is a victim sanctuary and many of their cities cling to that status so it's not even arguable. It's not very surprising at all that even the rich of CA are going to act like victims. That's the CA culture, why expect anything else?

#4 | Posted by humtake at 2025-08-25 11:47 AM | Reply

"Silicon Valley is in CA, the state that is a victim sanctuary and many of their cities cling to that status so it's not even arguable. It's not very surprising at all that even the rich of CA are going to act like victims. That's the CA culture, why expect anything else?"

#4 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

As opposed to the manly red states where all the Maggots have to carry a gun at all times? Yeah, California is the coward's state. LOL.

#5 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-08-26 12:06 PM | Reply

#4 | Posted by humtake

Rich white people think they're victims no matter where there are. That's why they brainwash suckers like you into voting for the puppets of rich white people.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-26 02:17 PM | Reply