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[–] [email protected] 158 points 3 weeks ago (60 children)

Pay no attention to the fascist behind the curtain.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Just double checked, and it's archive both on org and is. That's good.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 weeks ago (5 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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

They are going to get killed by their own militias

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Imagine just letting him be in his bunker, but you park a cement truck on top of the door.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

His bunker on a Hawaiian Island. Dude really wants to be far away from everything when shit pops off.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What I'm hearing is that after we overthrow the government and Destroy capitalism we have to dig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

dig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial

Just weld the door closed. Problem solved.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or, hold a trial, and if convicted, we seal him in his bunker and bury it and cut it off from all outside contact. And depending on the severity of his conviction, plugging up every "air hole" could go along as capital punishment. Give him a very twilight zone ending, he wanted to hide in his bunker, and now he'll spend the rest of his life in it, however long that may be.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

The native Hawaiians should reclaim their land he stole so he doesn't have a bunker anymore

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

We edge closer to Weyland-Yutani hegemony every day, only the IRL technocrats will be stupider and greedier

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

I associate it with "The Space Merchants" and their corporate congress.

It's a really good book written in 1952 and talks about climate change, rampant corporate greed, synthetic meat... Really good read.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Peter thiel* is a bigger puppet master, he just doesn't want to be the face. He wants the world to collapse so he can rebuild it into his techno feudalism dream. This is all to plan

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Tesla tubby is illegitimate parasite leeching on American government and taxpayer...

Federal government needs to consume some ivermectin

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Delete your facebook products.

If you know someone who works at facebook, try to convince them to leave.

If you see someone who's in a leadership position at Facebook bleeding out, perhaps after a car accident because their brakes were sabotaged, let them die.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business's are worthless without our accounts.

It's a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Everyone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks 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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks 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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Ya, but now you can't talk about it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

The Network State is just feudalism updated to accommodate a new set of vile and toxic elitist shitheads.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Delay, Deny, [redacted]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Quit Meta... problem solved

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Just another reason to abandon social networks owned by big tech companies and moving to decentralized open source social networks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hrmm. I wonder why they would censor such a conspiratorial idea? Unless...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

They are afraid

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