Political statements about technology distribution are common enough that they usually register as background noise — filed under 'expected opposition' and ignored by the industry. What happened when Sanders' New Republic quote reached Bluesky was different: the response was not pushback or mockery but agreement from people who do not typically align with left-populist framings of technology. The anxious consensus that formed around that quote is more significant than the quote itself. It marks the point at which the class critique stopped being a challenger frame and became the…