To link earlier Yarvin mentions: Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics
The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
-------------------- Related: [...] JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US [...]Thiel is a self-styled libertarian who once wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Hello? Freedom is incompatible with democracy only if you view democracy as a potential constraint on your wealth and power.
That’s the point. Thiel and Vance – along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement – believe that the only way true libertarians can win in the US is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the US establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup.
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[Repeat: ... That’s the point. Thiel and Vance – along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement – believe that the only way true libertarians can win in the US is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the US establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175458882 The 'anti-establishment' pose is real, but it is not about freeing the populace. That position is a charade. Trump, Musk and the others are into libertarian freedom for one basic reason - to grab more power tor themselves and those like them. It becomes a question of whether or not the populace cares for democracy enough to vote to keep it. Warts and all. Or give it up. It is all about leading voters into a more authoritarian place.]