America The Stupid – A commenter’s view on all this Uber news

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I don’t normally feed into blog comments, but I recently received a comment on one of my last Daily Read‘s. It’s funny because I don’t really get any engagement on these other than the occasional share here and there, so I was surprised to see a comment notification.

My Daily Read’s are pretty much a roundup of all the best tech stories or discussions of the day, and I’ll condense them into one post with links and twitter bios. Basically give my readers a peek into what I’m reading for the day.

Nothing major, nothing special. Just another avenue for me to share stuff. Well Today’s Daily Read was a collection of all the Uber headlines and think-pieces that I found interesting. Think of it as “Uber of Uber stories.”

Surprisingly enough, I got a comment from a reader! However, the user was anonymous and the only way of me finding out who sent it was by manually emailing him/her, which I decided against because I found it to be a bit creepy. These closing words in the comment kind of gave me the hint: “I shan’t be back.”

Noted.

Anyways, the comment was so good that I couldn’t pass up sharing this with you guys. Instead of me babbling, let me just share the comment:

“The CEO, another idiot, releases a multi-part tweet in response to Emil’s dung pile. CEO and DungPileEmil both are representative of the arrogance and self-absorbed nature of the American culture. The dumbing down has been many years in the making and we are now members of a completely self-absorbed, narcissistic non-discerning society that cares not one wit for any one other than our puny little selves.

Kalanick is a child who should have fired DungPileEmil the moment DungPile had his little rant. Kalanick should also have not responded by twatting through twitter (twitter: another tool for the self-absorbed). He should have stood up in front of the press and spoke like a leader and took the difficult questions. Nope, let’s hide behind anti-social ‘social’ networks.

As America does its slow-motion slide off the cliff and we all stare like deer in the headlights. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. Please, save your little hunt&peck fingers and do not waste your time responding. I shan’t be back.”

Thanks for the comment, whoever you are!

Kevin Raposo

Kevin is KnowTechie's founder and executive editor. With over 15 years of blogging experience in the tech industry, Kevin has transformed what was once a passion project into a full-blown tech news publication. Shoot him an email at kevin@knowtechie.com.