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Sam Altman says he's 'politically homeless' in July 4 post bashing Democrats

by tareqak on 7/5/25, 12:20 AM with 20 comments

• by clipsy on 7/5/25, 1:30 AM

  This could've been moderately interesting if he'd bothered to elucidate exactly how the Democratic party has moved away from him, because as far as I can tell their policy platforms have not changed dramatically except on some social issues. The only thing I can come up with as speculation is that he's greatly overestimating the popularity of "The Squad" and a handful of other progressives based on social media presence rather than actually examining what the party has tried to accomplish in recent years.

  (Ok, a more cynical speculation is that he's the one who has changed due to his enormous wealth, and he no longer actually aligns with the Democratic party of 20 years ago; but he'd never consider, let alone admit, such a thing.)

• by armchairhacker on 7/5/25, 2:43 AM

  Politicians are out-of-touch. Altman is also out-of-touch but in a different way. (I'm probably also out-of-touch in yet another way. The average NYCer can't really understand the life of the average rural Texan and vice versa.)

  More parties in the US would be great, but right now it doesn't look feasible. Maybe we can convince enough people to support a new party, or shrink government, if the alternative gets us too close to Civil War or governance is too unpredictable, which mutually hurts all Americans (and benefits China).

• by mergy on 7/5/25, 2:57 AM

  Sorry dude. You are not homeless. Own it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/technology/sam-altman-elo...

• by tareqak on 7/5/25, 12:22 AM

  I used the title from https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/openai-altman-july-4-zohran-... and made it fit the word limit (“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he’s ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats”).

• by Finnucane on 7/5/25, 12:31 AM

  Sam Altman's head seems to be firmly at home in his own ass.

• by archagon on 7/5/25, 8:18 AM

  Tech CEO who gives millions to fascists and parties with the likes of Thiel and Yarvin moans about being politically homeless. Buddy, you definitely have a political home.

• by alganet on 7/5/25, 12:37 AM

  > make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires

  It's the other way around. Billionaires lack something: the sense of working to get things. True sense of value. I want billionaires to acquire this precious feeling.

• by Trasmatta on 7/5/25, 12:22 AM

  "Billionaire says he doesn't like the party that wants to eliminate billionaires"