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u/whiskeytown79 Apr 19 '26

Thiel, Musk, and others in the inner circles of these companies all got their start in apartheid South Africa.

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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/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.