• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s not right wing nuts tech bros. It’s just one: Thiel. All the companies with the LOTR name have him as a common denominator.

    Also this news is weird I thought Palmer Luckey really hated Zuckerberg. Luckey was fired from Facebook because he supported Trump before basically any other Techbro except Thiel.

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      Thiel is basically pushing the idea of breaking up the US of A into “city states”. And the IT Bros, as the “chosen ones” due to their business acumen, they will all get a city to govern said independent states.

      “But they were all of them deceived…”

      Ash nazg durbatulûk

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        The cities state idea is more of a Curtis Yarvin thing, but he has the backing of Thiel.

        Thiel is pushing whatever thing allows the existence of a libertarian state a la Bioshock. In his essay “Education of a Libertarian “ he talks about a few things that could usher such a state like the internet, space colonies or sea standing. So far he has funded two companies that could allow such a state to form. He was one of the first to fund SpaceX (Mars), and he funded a project of Yarvin that I don’t really understand but it’s something about cyber city states or some shit like that, it’s super obscure.