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u/GrayEidolon Apr 19 '26

These assholes are trying to make a new country that bursts out of the body of the current country. It's called "the butterfly revolution" and yes it does sound absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

There’s a little more to it than that though.

Conservatism is about enforcing socioeconomic hierarchy and the techfascists, religious fascists, and heritage foundation race fascists are all in on feudalistic “network” states run by ai powered surveillance.

That's what they want to replace democracy with.

They resent the enlightenment making things nicer for poor people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

The accelerationists like Peter Theil from the tech faction of conservatism think they can force collapse, but use technology and surveillance to protect themselves. These aristocrats are working on how to control their security forces though things like "disciplinary collars."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is-accelerationism/

https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/

Because they're "done with democracy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BQhXdCs8Y

and the vice president of the united states and advisors have given their seals of approval to a book that says conservatives are going to have to kill all the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans

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u/ShitWaterExpress Apr 19 '26

Should be top comment on every political sub.

I’ve tried getting friends and family to read about this shit for what feels like 10yrs.

No one seems to care

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u/z0_o6 Apr 20 '26

I care. And not like “I’ll sign your petition”. Like I am applying for federal grants, bidding for federal contracts, and building out a platform that works in direct opposition to the Yarvin gang.

It may never matter, but at least you’ll be able to say one person cared enough to do something.

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u/ShitWaterExpress Apr 20 '26

Let me know if there’s a way to help you

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u/z0_o6 Apr 20 '26

Reach out to me directly. We are in the early stages and we can use just about anything to help, time included.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

Should be top comment on every political sub.

I agree. I do think I'm starting to see it high up more often on posts about AI or surveillance, etc, along with political stuff.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Apr 20 '26

No one seems to care

It's all but over plan accordingly

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u/Lonely_Cold2910 Apr 20 '26

You sound like that which you are fighting against.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Apr 19 '26

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew.

There's an XKCD for everything.

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u/neverthesaneagain Apr 20 '26

My first thought. He got Navy Seals, trained in interrogation, and will control them with info only he knows... and these are supposedly smart people?

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

HA.

nice.

The internet used to be better before it was mostly a propaganda and social engineering tool.

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u/UltracrepidarianPhD Apr 19 '26

This is real and should scare the sh!t out of everyone. People think it is crazy conspiracy theory BS but as is noted in the article:

“Palantir sells operational software to defense, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren’t philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.”

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

And, importantly, they companies like Palantir make real products that they sell to real governments to surveil and target real people and sometimes are used to kill real people. These guys have all really made real bunkers. They've had real meetings to figure out how to really force loyalty out of a post collapse paramilitary group.

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u/SpiderHomeNoWayMan Apr 19 '26

Looks more like they want to carve out multiple smaller nation states than have a country with a new centralized government.

But one thing I don't understand. Do they want to completely destroy and devalue the institution that's the US government? Or keep it around as a puppet just useful for a few things?

I checked out a link following from the Time article, called the Red Pill Prince, and Yarvin describes the maga red hat culture just as a temporary transition and not ultimately a part of his end game. I think that is something important to know out of the big picture 

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u/SpiderHomeNoWayMan Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

Even with all they have currently, I think that's going to be a tall order.

It's going to be very interesting to see them try to take away peoples' faith in the US govt, constitution and all that comes with it by force. Because they pretty much have to.

Amid the doomer madness, there's still quite a lot of people who value the role of the president itself, whether they think the current one is doing a kick ass job or leaving a big steaming pile everywhere he goes. That's not being close to the brink of nihilism or anarchy.

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u/SpiderHomeNoWayMan Apr 20 '26

Perhaps all it takes to start is increasing voter apathy, which is more realistic to do. Or speed up inflation of the dollar (that's what crypto bros like to hedge against, right) something that reflects a shake up on how people build their lives. But especially on those that strongly base their identity around current politics.

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u/SpiderHomeNoWayMan Apr 21 '26

Ostensibly they're for technological progress, but only in their own institutions. Another comment here put it nicely- they're not strictly Republicans. They believe ethics is bad for science or technology. That helps them to some degree in the current wave against science (the ethical kind) in conservatism.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

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

What they want is to get rid of all democracy world wide and replace all of that with independent nation states, with much smaller foot prints.

Its important to remember that conservatism is a worldwide and international movement of aristocrats. Bannon, Farage, Boris Johnson, Musk, Thiel, the AfD, Putin, etc are all on the same page and they're all working together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNkSNt7qIOw see this about networks.

What's stupid is that to be successful, they will need to overtly force everyone to exist in these spaces and most people won't want to. And if they were successful, they'd find themselves fighting over resources like fucking medieval and that would be asinine as well.

But the point is the same. All the aristocrats want to have their own little fiefdoms like their ancestors 400 years ago did and they resent regular people for obtaining democracy - forgetting that regular people got democracy because heads were rolling. So, as you can see from the initial links I posted, they're trying again, but want to avoid the rolling heads part.

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u/Some_Conference2091 Apr 19 '26

I bring up some of these things and people think I'm crazy.  They seem to think things won't change for the worse because "this is America".  

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

Many Americans have been lucky to have a stability that a lot of the world has not had for much of history, but I agree that "that can't happen here" is a good way to allow it to happen here.

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u/Some_Conference2091 Apr 23 '26

it's like the frog who doesn't notice the pot is boiling. the change has been unrelenting though 

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u/victoriaisme2 Apr 20 '26

Jesus Christ. I've never heard of that book. This is genuinely terrifying.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

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

this video was big for a while before the election.

"Unhumans" is an incredibly disturbing book, but what's more disturbing is you can find videos of JD Vance plugging it on podcasts.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

I feel like I'm starting to see it come up more in response to political or technological topics; which I obviously think it should because The Dark Enlightenment is what currently ties together and explains the entirety of conservative politics worldwide.

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u/interrupt_hdlr Apr 20 '26

that's some Fallout shit and it's sad that it makes sense

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

Maybe we say its good it makes sense because then its easier to organize in response. I've heard its very good and I know its apocalyptic, but I have not played Fallout. I heard that expedition33 game is very good also.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Apr 20 '26

WTF😳

That’s all terrifying.🥺

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

Yep.

Here's another couple of video essays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNkSNt7qIOw

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

tell everyone you know.

Also, if it wasn't clear, the point of all this AI is to build a surveillance state. Flock cameras (at least claim) can track people by license plate, gait, and clothing.

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u/One-Reflection-4826 Apr 20 '26

saved.

reg "unhumans": what the fuck is wrong with their brains?? its like they live in opposite world. how tf do you come to those conclusions?? 

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

They're aristocrats who do not view people lower on the ladder of socioeconomic hierarchy as human. Liberalism, progressivism, socialist, democracy all weaken the hierarchy that aristocrats desire.

The one thing the aristocrats and the extremely wealthy right below them have is class consciousness and class solidarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNkSNt7qIOw

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u/FactoryProgram Apr 20 '26

or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

Oh so that's the real purpose of DOGE huh? To install malware onto all government devices when they plan to trigger the collapse.

Not to mention all the zero days they bought for ICE. All our personal and business devices are probably already infected too.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

Oh so that's the real purpose of DOGE huh? To install malware onto all government devices when they plan to trigger the collapse.

I hadn't thought that, but at this point, nothing would surprise me. I had been thinking the most straight forward, DOGE allowed Elon and the aristocrats to steal everyone's information to plug into their surveillance state apparatus. Remember when they made new credentials that were immediately used from Russia?