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Repost: Crazy sick is right. And all of it had wandered from my mind in the last few days, too. That is bad, so thanks
heaps for bringing the Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, Kremlin agent Tucker Carlton, Vance thing back -- to all of us.

APPENDIX A/ This paragraph, on the Yarvinism of Thiel and Musk and Vance, is uncontested. This is the truth they hope no one will tell you over the next 18 days.

Well, I am telling you.

🔗: https://t.co/0vT1sKJTv8 pic.twitter.com/xIcxqtb23I

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 19, 2024

Seth Abramson is doing a tremendous job there. I hadn't before realized the whole import of:

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

"Did you happen to watch Rachel Maddow last night? It was one of
the most terrifying reports she's ever given. Listen to both segments."

I think Yarvin is new to the board, and your post puts Vance in a more hideously new light too.

Gil Duran / July 22, 2024
Dark Realm

Many more links

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

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Vance is a Thiel creation. And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote .. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ , “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from Yarvin.

Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.

“The basic idea of Patchwork is that, as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions,” he wrote .. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/ .. in Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century.

Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.

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Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or—needless to say—Yale Law. It was incubated in America’s tech capital, San Francisco, where he forged crucial ties with Thiel, Yarvin, and David Sacks .. https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel , the longtime Thiel associate and pro-Putin crusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights. And if Vance ends up in the White House, it will be with $45 million in monthly campaign contributions from Musk .. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he-is-committing-around-45-million-a-month-to-a-new-pro-trump-super-pac-dda53823 , who already made a $44 billion in-kind contribution by gutting .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/ .. San Francisco-based Twitter and transforming it into a right-wing misinformation weapon.

In a fateful twist, San Francisco also launched the political career of Kamala Harris, who is set to inherit .. https://newrepublic.com/post/184061/its-joever-biden-drops-out-2024-presidential-race .. the task of saving American democracy from tech authoritarianism.

Reposted to include missing link -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175169069