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[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

WATCH THIS IF YOURE NOT SURE WHAT HES BANNING THE DISCUSSION OF

It's terrifying

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, this is a very important video. She's hardly the first to address it too.

[–] tristipasta@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Very important video indeed

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.

Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.

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Delay, Deny, [redacted]

And the fuck up samurai, we have new CEOs to [redacted]

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago (4 children)

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

Next Reddit will start banning you for upvoting anything about it.

Please share this document far and wide. People need to understand what's going on, to stop it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Tech fascists see America’s democracy and financial system as collapsing.

That's because you're the one breaking it down

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

It's fascist city states that market themselves as tax free libertarian, likely hedonistic. Tech has little (maybe ultra deregulated healthcare) to do with anything other than billionaires who came from tech get to decide who is allowed in. This is a model in Israel and Arab kingdoms with less hedonism, but high slavery levels.

The US is definitely on path to collapse. Current administration is accelerating it. Gifting federal lands to become tax havens is setting it to 11.

Many of these tech bros also talk about an actual solution: Freedom dividends. High tax libertarianism with freedom for all. Power redistribution. Don't compete for jobs we can't do as well as China or robots. Or spend on/promote war. Freedom dividends ends crimes and makes fair labour markets. Fascism and slavery as the "libertarian utopian phoenix from ashes of US" is going to be straight mad max fascism and slavery instead of utopia.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really I'd wager it's more Snow Crash myself, it's a book that most of these Silicon Valley guys would have grown up with.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 was just a continuation of Cyberpunk 2020, which came out before Snow Crash.

In reality, I think the tech bros pull from all sorts of media and don't restrict themselves to just one bible.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 126 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Streisand effect: I had never heard of the “network state” until now. Uh, thanks for being such an asshole, Zuck!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

There's a whole video that blew up a couple weeks ago about this. Highly recommend you watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

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[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just found out like a week ago. Look up techno feudalism. Apparently these guys have been talking about it for a long time.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Curtis Yarvin is the guy peddling this shit and influencing these idiots

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[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 94 points 2 days ago (22 children)

This man has a bunker and everything. He's scared shitless and he is ready to hide. Their assets need to be seized and accounts drained

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

That's not a joke, ALL these dudes have extensive doomsday prep. Secure facilities, staffed and stocked. There's a ton of reporting on it. They're gonna fare a LOT better than we are if shit gets really outta hand. Unless we do something about them before it gets to that point, anyway.

Edit: added a detail

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 12 points 1 day ago

They are going to get killed by their own militias

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[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. I bet lobbyist play a big roll into that. Is it the lobbyists jobs that are bad or the way and the people who take the jobs are bad?

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 156 points 2 days ago (36 children)

Pay no attention to the fascist behind the curtain.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 52 points 2 days ago

The fascist in front of the curtain is loud enough already.

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[–] KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had never heard about the "Network State" concept before, but now I hate it, because Zuckerberg sure as hell loves it

[–] owl@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Someone else already posted it, but I'll post it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

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[–] Mr_Crash_Davis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've been reading a little about this concept and can't see how it would work in reality. Sure, the Feds could "set aside" some land for one of these assholes to set up a new city. But that area would still be under the concurrent jurisdiction of a state and county. And not even the Feds can exempt a city from a state's regulatory environment. In fact most of the things these billionaires are trying to get away from (labor laws, building codes, etc) are state regulations in the first place.

Frankly no billionaire is going to want to live in the middle of South Dakota, no matter how "free" it supposedly is.

[–] DavesNotHere@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Everyone seems to forget a bunch of tech bros bought almost $1B worth of land in Solano County CA with the stated goal of building a new city. It made national headlines for a bit as the buyer was initially a mystery and it’s near Travis Air Force base so there was concern it was foreign actors.

[–] Mr_Crash_Davis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Rich people trying to buy land for their own slice of paradise goes way back. Solano County is recent history, young squire. I go back to the Free State project from 2001, same song and dance. Or the non-government wet dream of Sealand off the coast of England in 1987, ditto. And if one wants to go even more old school than that, look at the rich Confederate plantation owners that went to Brazil after the CSA fell in 1865. You can even go down to the town of Americana every year and celebrate the Confederacy! These fuckers wanted to deny that they lost so badly that they created a false reality in Brazil.

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe the idea is that Trump is likely to sell our national parks to them.

That's the current conspiracy gossip I believe.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It won't be the Billionaires who have to live in places like South Dakota, it will be their workers/slaves who will.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Link to the video

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 82 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Of course they are. They'll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Pay no attention to the man-child behind the curtain.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 63 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We are already living in a country being run by Elon Musk.

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[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

Corporations can't even run corporations well. That's one of the lessons we should've took from 2008.

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