Cooper Lund: All these guys have Poster’s Disease. They’re so juiced up by SV money and the smell of their own farts that they’re going to try to create the world’s least charismatic fascist movement by sucking up to the police, who will all correctly take them for easy marks. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

All these guys have Poster’s Disease. They’re so juiced up by SV money and the smell of their own farts that they’re going to try to create the world’s least charismatic fascist movement by sucking up to the police, who will all correctly take them for easy marks. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

This whole thing is an idea that a 15 year old posts to the worst subreddit you’ve ever seen after a jock makes fun of his new gizmo, but backed by a bunch of other nerds with too much money. President Biden please create a swirly tax to drain their money so they can’t be this delusional.

This is incredible. Sometimes I wish these ghouls would get what they wish for, just to see how fast it all breaks down.

it'll be like that libertarian town in new hampshire where the bears took over

idk why my head immediately went to bears working at the shops and restaurants in town like right away brain had a bear in an apron bussing a table queued up

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That was such a perfect outcome. Live free and die!

Maybe we can send those bears in!

Yes please.

every single one of these guys is going to get murdered by their chiefs of security on Day Two after they go to their apocalypse bunkers

..and they never, ever seem to realize that! Once you've destroyed the mechanisms of a civil society then society will not be civil anymore, & the most ruthless warlord wins. They all seem to believe that their money will still be useful after money means nothing anymore.

The only thing of value they'll have will be a daughter that Trump finds attractive. So the only commodity will be hair bleach.

Just the other day I said to my therapist: “Do these guys not realize their staff will turn on them the second money stops being real?”

there’s that story by one of them that had a oh shit moment as he pondered how to maintain authority over his security force after The Event

I’d win the loyalty of my men by offering them NFTs

This is why Zuckerberg is doing MMA stuff

I always thought that breaking into Zuckerberg's Hawaii bunker will be a fun 15-minute diversion for the wretched masses.

Nah, I’m sure the cops will recognize the inherent superiority of the guys they used to pants and swirly in high-school once the shit goes down

i think a fallout 3 vault did this bit.

tbh i assume this is what is behind the interest in neuralink

just build giant biometrically linked mecha suits, guys, this doesn't seem that hard

i did not need more reasons to remove their fingers or eyes but i will take them

This is at least two tangents away, but everyone should read Clive Barker's "In the Hills, the Cities", which I consider to be the greatest short story of all time.

(Up there with Ballard's "The Drowned Giant"... oh hey I guess I like alienated fiction about encounters with the platonic opposite of weird little guys)

Don't even need them to work, an implant that will cause a massive brain bleed if you cross me is quite sufficient

"thin strips of Objectivist Jerky"

Even more hilarious is taking Elons' "banishing" of the "blues" from xitter as a model for how to run a major US city? Imagine the self-importance it takes to think the smug nod between employees swiping into the Apple motherhip should be how BART works.

i mean, a good percentage of them are going to be murdered by trump if trump ever gets to be potus again and that's probably the only truly real threat to their lives.

Or spend 1000 years wrapped up around their reactor as they mutate into something truly horrible after killing everyone else

Or as I'd like to call it-the Ted Faro method

I think my favorite thing about Balaji is that he was such a shithead that Coinbase — Coinbase! — asked him to leave

Half this nonsense is born from smart guys who never took a civics class yearning for community. It’s like the flat earthers. The point is they have a place to belong, and friends. We all just suffer because they never learned how to text “hey man want to go out for drinks?”

These are not smart guys.

Smart in the tech/IT way. I’ve been in the industry for a long time and can’t tell you how jarring it is to have someone who thinks the government shouldn’t pave roads also be one of the best coders you’ve ever met

Libertarianism: not even once

At least the original fascists’ brains were broken by WWI and not by posting themselves into imbecility.

And the Great Depression. That was a big part of it.

A lot of this strategy is just "do public corruption out in the open" right? Like none of this would even be kind of legal

It would make avoiding them easier if they all wore matching tshirts and walked around talking about Grays

I'm sorry? A *four hour* talk on a podcast?!

There aren't many things that could radicalize me but these schmucks appropriating gray t-shirts might do it.

What the actual fuck?

It's telling that these "tech" guys never actually elucidate anything they want to use technology for, outside of using it as a vehicle to grift VC money

“Elon’s building”

I keep coming back to John Ganz's "jock-douche/creep-loser theory" of fascism and it seems to check out most of the time: www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-jockcr...

In San Francisco some of the most atavistic reactionary police took advantage of this dynamic by installing a fanatic on the Board of Supervisors, where he and the reactionary mayor London Breed are close allies in service of techbros’ regressive, authoritarian agenda.

Now I don't want to leave the house in a gray t-shirt ever again.

So this guy just wants to recreate the conditions in the “V” miniseries, then

Remember that there's an ENORMOUS overlap on the Venn diagram of "intentional community" "abusive relationship of coercive control" and "cult". And that's all I have to say about that.

And for all that, they probably think that this is innovative, it sounds like a variation on Jay Gould’s proclamation over 120 years ago that he could hire half the working class to kill the other half.