L O L G O P: Tech billionaires want to do to San Francisco what Elon did to Twitter, says @gilduran.bsky.social Poor people will be barred from parts of the city. Tech loyalists will don Gray shirts, carry Gray ID cards. They'll hold weekly banquets for Gray police. They'll march in "Gray Pride Parades."

Tech billionaires want to do to San Francisco what Elon did to Twitter, says @gilduran.bsky.social Poor people will be barred from parts of the city. Tech loyalists will don Gray shirts, carry Gray ID cards. They'll hold weekly banquets for Gray police. They'll march in "Gray Pride Parades."

Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's dark vision for San Franciscowww.parallelmirror.com Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-tw...

"Dear Mother, it is hard here at the front. The normies have driven us back beyond Telegraph Hill, and supplies of fedoras and vapes are running low..." youtu.be/uZmxZThb084?...

"The Civil War" Soundtrack - Ashokan Farewell - YouTubeyoutu.be

There is no more valor in being a tech worker than there is in like...wearing khakis.

Christ. The Blues and the Grays? Haven't we been down this road before?

Someone saw the Deep Space Nine episodes Past Tense and realized the Bell Riots are this year, gotta get going.

Another Engineer who spent 10 minutes on Google and nows how to solve the world's problems. The prescription almost always boils down to....Give rich engineers absolute power over the peasants who are not rich engineers.

This crap stems from Yarvin's "Dark Enlightenment" crap where all these techbros think they should be the ones' running society because they "run" the tech. It's a pure bullied nerd revenge fantasy.

I guess brown shirts was a little too on the nose.

So basically Balaji wants to recreate a tech-ified version of the Confederate army and recreate segregation (with a new, differently racist slant) & throw in some old skool elite authoritarianism. Which means he's recreating 1850's South Carolina with tech guys replacing slave owners. Charming.

JFC, DS9 had an episode like this ("The Bell Riots" were supposed to happen in San Francisco, 2024).

I just looked up Sept 3rd. I've watched this episode at least 20 times over the past 29 years. and didn't realize until just now: That's the day after Labor Day...! 🤔

Looking forward to our tech overlords making this a reality in a few months. We already passed some extra dumb tech bro measures on our ballots recently (increase in police, decrease in citizen oversight of police, drug testing for aid recipients), so we're on our way.

This is science fiction stuff, and not in a cool Star Trek way.

Fucked-up fact: One of the greatest current domestic threats to our Republic looks like he works as a Bellhop in the Confederate Wing of the Grand Budapest Hotel...

pic from this most excellent article: www.parallelmirror.com/balaji-srini... I have added yet another Supervillain to my "Keep an Eye on These Fuckers" list.

Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's dark vision for San Franciscowww.parallelmirror.com Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-tw...

I thought he looks familiar...

That means there's a lot of work.

Good photo to represent the clownishness

Ah yes, the Gray Pride parades were a blast youtu.be/R706isyDrqI?...

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I don't want to be strong-armed, seduced, whatever they do, to be made to live in and die of such a world. No, thanks.

…were brown shirts sold out?

“Massive graft but we’re also going to be extremely weird and elitist about everything.”

This is the same douchebag who lost the $1 million hyperinflation bet to @jdcmedlock.bsky.social qz.com/balaji-srini...

Balaji Srinivasan lost $1 million in a bizarre bitcoin betqz.com Srinivasan, the crypto investor and tech entrepreneur, bet that bitcoin would reach $1 million because of US hyperinflation

Time to go to the hardware store

"B.S., a former partner at Andreesen-Horowitz" and that explains everything. SMDH

These people learned all the wrong lessons from Deep Space 9.

Someone call Gen Sherman

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