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  1. @tofugolem @stonykark

    Not only is it us versus them.
    The entire #darkenlightment corrosive ideology, Peter Thiel's #apocalypse #heresy is all about destruction of democratic civil order and replacing it with #technofascism.

    A full surveillance authoritarian state, where #broligarchs decide who gets turned to fertiliser.

    #doge was just a test run.

    A sped run #genocide where zitty 22yo minions exterminate entire segments of society.
    #ice is currently building the warehouse deathcamp infrastructure where the exits will lead to fertiliser and biodiesel plants.

    The oligarchs want you dead.

    #resistance

  2. "Thiel's entire action can... be read as a prolonged act of heresy against the liberal consensus: a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence, which he now considers ‌outdated,"

    ~ Benant

    #broligarchs #eschation #fascism #darkenlightment #eattherich #christianity

  3. @nzlemming

    Every time I see a "Data entre in space is a stupid idea", these days I go right to the #cooling part to see whether the author has done their homework, or are they just baying with the rest of the pack.

    Don't get me wrong, I too think #datacentres in space are dumb idea. It's a colossal waste of lift capability. But I can see, why #broligarchs think it's a checkmate libruls, move as the major attack surfaces for #AI is 1) Power, 2) Water (cooling).

    In this particular piece of nonsense, the author hadn't even done the basic tech, much less the actual better solution in cooling.

    Additionally, putting the facilities for their #mechahitler in space, puts it 40,000km above the heads of the angry #Luddite mobs, which are coming soon.

    Anyway, here is the article by the incompetent for the uninterested:

    bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

  4. CW: Political Race Theory, Misogyny

    Just heard a great talk on #education in @doughenwood "Behind the news" #podcast. Reminded me that teaching is a profession that was subjected to a F.U.D. (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) campaign by #whitesupremacist #broligarchs because it was largely female and human centered. I'm embarrassed that I thought teaching was easy. I remember all of the great #teachers I had in #Montclair and at #HowardUniversity. My mother was master early childhood educator. Thanks Mom.

  5. @geeknik

    Propagandist's Playbook target: Teens

    1. Exploit transition glitches. Rapid emotional pivots (calm > outrage > vindication) keep adolescent brains dysregulated longer than single-emotion content.

    2. Sustain background threat. Feed outrage, then "safe" content that looks reassuring but maintains low-level anxiety. Brain never fully exits threat-mode.

    3. Fast cuts > slow cuts. 1-2 second scenes prevent emotional state completion. Brain processes previous emotion while encountering new one. Adolescents lag ~50-100ms; exploit that lag.

    4. Shock hits harder. Adolescents under-recruit threat-detection during happy > angry transitions. Graphic/sudden content hits an unprepared neural system. Psychological impact amplified.

    5. Algorithmic oscillation. Detect outrage engagement > feed calming content (incomplete cool-down) > feed more outrage. Keep them in the glitch zone.

    Core insight: Engagement #algorithms reward content that creates dysregulation. You're not accidentally exploiting #adolescent #neurology you're deliberately architecting for it.

    Source: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #propaganda #brainwashing #socialmedia #socials #broligarchs #psychology #computationalpropaganda

  6. Do you hate #broligarchs?
    #Billionaires? #AiSlop but still think there is merit in #AI?

    Here is my proposal for a stand alone.
    OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.

    That's right.Your very own co-op AI

    The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.
    A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source #llm model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios)

    40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.
    Entire set up takes half a rack.

    LETS GO!!!

    #OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

  7. Do you hate #broligarchs?
    #Billionaires? #AiSlop but still think there is merit in #AI?

    Here is my proposal for a stand alone.
    OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.

    That's right.Your very own co-op AI

    The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.
    A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source #llm model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios)

    40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.
    Entire set up takes half a rack.

    LETS GO!!!

    #OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

  8. Do you hate #broligarchs?
    #Billionaires? #AiSlop but still think there is merit in #AI?

    Here is my proposal for a stand alone.
    OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.

    That's right.Your very own co-op AI

    The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.
    A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source #llm model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios)

    40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.
    Entire set up takes half a rack.

    LETS GO!!!

    #OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

  9. new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible"

    ¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok

    #DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X #NetworkState

  10. Mike Brock breaks down the Pirate Wires hit piece on Heather Cox Richardson.

    “A case study in how sophisticated cowards attack truth-tellers while serving power” is a one sentence summary of Peter Thiel and Mike Solana's #PirateWires that I wish I had come up with myself.

    notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-p

    #MikeSolana #uspol #uspolitics #heathercoxrichardson #PeterThiel #Thiel #broligarchy #nerdreich #broligarchs #MAGA

  11. @emilylowan

    The #bcndp now has a chance to really meet its environmental, labour, revenue and social services targets with an ideologically-aligned partner!

    I'm looking for a 25% wealth tax/year on families worth more than $200m, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m.

    #cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #billionaires #broligarchs #StaplesTrap

  12. 2/ #broligarchs weighing in to explain that the new standard for running the largest and most powerful law enforcement agency in the united states is now "innocent until proven guilty"

    it's possible #TomHoman didn't even commit a crime here, esp. if he didn't direct any contracts once in office, but even more broadly because #SCOTUS has more or less legalized #bribery in the united states (9-0 decision IIRC - look it up)

    but it says a lot about Jason Calacanis and the other "besties" in the nerd reich that the think the kind of person who would accept $50k in cash from people under the impression they were paying a bribe should run law enforcement.

    x.com/Jason/status/19695153869

    #jasonCalacanis #AllInPodcast #Chamath #tomHoman #uspol #uspoiitics

  13. in case anyone out there still doesn't believe that the #broligarchs are planning to destroy the global economy and the US dollar denominated financial system so they can rule over the ashes with their crypto here's the Nerd Reich's favourite thought leader and literal author of "The Network State" #Balaji literally laying out the exact steps.

    x.com/balajis/status/196152923

    #broligarch #crypto #bitcoin #networkstate #nerdReich #coinbase #TheNerdReich #cryptocurrency #finance #economics #uspol #uspolitics #VCs #siliconValley

  14. Bo Hines, the nepo baby son of Todd Hines who was serving as an advisor to America’s “#crypto czar” David Sacks, has resigned a few days after his dad Todd Hines joined the advisory board of a crypto sports gambling operation.

    But it’s fine, I’m sure he won’t be profiting off of all his new contacts in the highest reaches of the American government.

    #BoHines #toddHines #strike #crypto #cryptocurrency #sportsGambling #gambling #corruption #uspol #davidsacks #broligarchy #broligarchs #techfascism

  15. i guess "god's wrath will throw fire upon the sodomites" is what passes for a #libertarian take in 2025, because this is one of the main guys trying to build the #NetworkState.

    (he's the CEO of #Praxis, "the world's first digital nation" that's funded by a lot of the crypto bros including Peter Thiel, #Balaji, Joe Lonsdale, the #Winklevoss twins, #Paradigm (big crypto fund), a #Worldcoin guy, and a bunch of others). cc: @gilduran.com @gilduran

    * the tweet: x.com/drydenwtbrown/status/193
    * more on Dryden Brown: motherjones.com/politics/2023/

    #pride #lgbt #Thiel #Pronomos #PeterThiel #crypto #cryptocurrency #NetworkState #broligarchy #Broligarchs #JoeLonsdale #TheNetworkState #gay #christianNationalism #DrydenBrown #a16z #nerdreich #thenerdreich

  16. 🤭 the transhumanist cybernetic Übermensch replacement theory; don’t think MAGA qualify for that. Being hung up on trans and whatnot? The automated control of information processing and its final solution, eliminate the people! #transhumanism #transhumanist #broligarchs #FascistTech

  17. The #NetworkState aims to replace democratic institutions with tech-driven governance. Tech billionaires are concentrating power in their hands under the guise of innovation, which often fails in unexpected ways. Historical attempts at reconfiguring power have often exploited vulnerable nations and groups of people. We must critically examine these assumptions and the definition of "efficiency" in governance. The importance of storytelling in shaping a better future is key to challenging their dystopian narrative.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  18. The #NetworkState aims to replace democratic institutions with tech-driven governance. Tech billionaires are concentrating power in their hands under the guise of innovation, which often fails in unexpected ways. Historical attempts at reconfiguring power have often exploited vulnerable nations and groups of people. We must critically examine these assumptions and the definition of "efficiency" in governance. The importance of storytelling in shaping a better future is key to challenging their dystopian narrative.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  19. The Supreme Court's decisions, such as their Citizen's United ruling, have exacerbated the influence of money in politics. The #NetworkState movement reflects a desire to weaken government and labor. The ideological fervor of tech billionaires can be likened to a religious belief. Surrounded by sychophants, billionaires often have a warped perception of reality and lack of empathy for other people. Cryptocurrency is seen as a tool to undermine the legitimate nation-state's power. Small acts of rebellion can effectively challenge corrupt leaders and powerful institutions.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  20. The Supreme Court's decisions, such as their Citizen's United ruling, have exacerbated the influence of money in politics. The #NetworkState movement reflects a desire to weaken government and labor. The ideological fervor of tech billionaires can be likened to a religious belief. Surrounded by sychophants, billionaires often have a warped perception of reality and lack of empathy for other people. Cryptocurrency is seen as a tool to undermine the legitimate nation-state's power. Small acts of rebellion can effectively challenge corrupt leaders and powerful institutions.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  21. The Supreme Court's decisions, such as their Citizen's United ruling, have exacerbated the influence of money in politics. The #NetworkState movement reflects a desire to weaken government and labor. The ideological fervor of tech billionaires can be likened to a religious belief. Surrounded by sychophants, billionaires often have a warped perception of reality and lack of empathy for other people. Cryptocurrency is seen as a tool to undermine the legitimate nation-state's power. Small acts of rebellion can effectively challenge corrupt leaders and powerful institutions.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  22. The Supreme Court's decisions, such as their Citizen's United ruling, have exacerbated the influence of money in politics. The #NetworkState movement reflects a desire to weaken government and labor. The ideological fervor of tech billionaires can be likened to a religious belief. Surrounded by sychophants, billionaires often have a warped perception of reality and lack of empathy for other people. Cryptocurrency is seen as a tool to undermine the legitimate nation-state's power. Small acts of rebellion can effectively challenge corrupt leaders and powerful institutions.

    #NetworkState #AI #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #TechBros #Broligarchs #CryptoPolitics #NerdReich #Billionaires #Wealth #RichPeople #TaxBillionaires #Laws #Democracy

  23. The quote below the #Broligarchs didn’t read and don’t care for, is from Kennedy’s speech at Rice University, as progress is just their profit, tax benefits, bribery and ecocide exchanged for the chauvinist, racist, ableist and LGBTQ hate of Neo-Nazi censorship to fool their Dope cult! #Regressive

    ‘We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. ‘ rice.edu/jfk-speech

  24. Incredible screenshot from a private Signal group chat between among #broligarchs revealing that the smarter ones are not happy with #Trump's #tariffs but the crypto bros like the Winklevoss twins, David Sacks, and Shaun Maguire, in addition to the charlatans like Tucker Carlson, are all in for #MAGA.

    from Semafor article: semafor.com/newsletter/04/27/2

    #DavidSacks #uspol #uspolitics #broligarchy #TuckerCarlson #ShaunMaguire #Sequoia #CraftVentures #a16z #MarcAndreessen

  25. Over the past eight or so years, I've been asked on numerous occasions how I could be so certain that Trumpworld and the right wing authoritarian tech billionaires that are funding the movement were literally fascists. The simple answer to that question is because I know where the ideas that motivate them and animate their movement come from. As openly fascistic as the Trump regime's exercise of power has been so far, if you peel back a single layer to look at the people providing the ideological framework for those activities, you almost always find literal nazis.

    Take for example the Trump regime's frequently self-identified "war on woke." On its face, the collection of policies and activities used to wage the "war on woke" so far have been fundamentally Christian Nationalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, and eliminationist in nature. If however you peel back the top surface of this "war" you find three major ideological propagandists driving the entire agenda: specifically Peter Boghossian, Christopher Rufo, and Richard Hanania; whose frankly odious ideas have had a huge influence on the Republican Party, and the Trump administration. These three have waged a war on higher education, diversity, and the very concept of racial or gender equality, that is expressly endorsed by most of the same far right billionaires who paid to make Trump president; including Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So what happens if you peel back another layer of this fascist onion to find out who is funding and promoting guys like Hanania, Rufo, and Boghossian? You find a rich cracker tech bro, and a eugenicist running a recently rebranded foundation that supports white supremacists, promotes scientific racism, and was literally founded by Nazis. No, really:

    bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/tru

    Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation

    "The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.

    This nexus of ties to Pioneer Fund entities and ideology throws new light on how the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are the fruit of a broader white supremacist endeavour inspired by Nazi-aligned ideology.

    It also suggests that the increasing normalisation of the Nazi salute by Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and others is not an accident either – but a signal; one we would do well not to ignore."

    Unfortunately this article is a long read, and it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that the problem here is the "ancient" history of the Human Diversity Foundation/Pioneer Diveristy fund, but if you keep reading the author is very clear that the politics and priorities of the foundation, haven't changed much in the modern era.

    "But last year, Hope Not Hate revealed that a network of white supremacist activists was secretly rehabilitating the Pioneer Fund under the new Human Diversity Foundation brand identity.

    The aim has been to normalise the Pioneer Fund’s Nazi-aligned scientific racism in the mainstream through the notion of open debate and ‘free’ inquiry. Scientific racism has been rebranded as the story of ‘human biodiversity’.

    The key funder supporting this initiative was revealed to be American technology entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who donated $1.3 million to the HDF. Around the same time, Conru was also funding the most influential conservative voices attacking DEI and ‘critical race theory’ – Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania.

    HDF’s magazine, Aporia, was founded by British far-right activist Matthew Frost. Conru’s donation provided him with a 15% stake in the group. It has defended Richard Lynn’s pseudoscientific racism, published an interview with Nazi sympathiser Jared Taylor, and in 2024 claimed that racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate”.

    Hope Not Hate’s undercover reporting recorded far-right activists associated with the HDF calling for “remigration” – the ‘mass removal of ethnic minorities’.

    Kirkegaard is the long-time editor of the Pioneer Fund-backed eugenics journal Mankind Quarterly, a founding board member of which was Nazi eugenicist Otmar von Verscheur – who taught and mentored Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi SS officer known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz.

    In 2023, both Kirkegaard and Frost attended a notorious neo-Nazi gathering known as the “Scandza Forum” in Estonia, hosted by Scandinavian neo-Nazi Fróði Midjord. The conference was that year renamed ‘Guide to Kulchur’ after a book by Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust supporter Ezra Pound.

    Kirkegaard inherited the assets of the Pioneer Fund from its former long-time president Richard Lynn before he died in July 2023."

    #Fascism #Trump #Nazis #WarOnWoke #Eugenics #Rufo #Hanania #Boghossian #HDF #PioneerFund #Kirkegaard #Conru #Broligarchs #GOP #Thiel #DEI

  26. Over the past eight or so years, I've been asked on numerous occasions how I could be so certain that Trumpworld and the right wing authoritarian tech billionaires that are funding the movement were literally fascists. The simple answer to that question is because I know where the ideas that motivate them and animate their movement come from. As openly fascistic as the Trump regime's exercise of power has been so far, if you peel back a single layer to look at the people providing the ideological framework for those activities, you almost always find literal nazis.

    Take for example the Trump regime's frequently self-identified "war on woke." On its face, the collection of policies and activities used to wage the "war on woke" so far have been fundamentally Christian Nationalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, and eliminationist in nature. If however you peel back the top surface of this "war" you find three major ideological propagandists driving the entire agenda: specifically Peter Boghossian, Christopher Rufo, and Richard Hanania; whose frankly odious ideas have had a huge influence on the Republican Party, and the Trump administration. These three have waged a war on higher education, diversity, and the very concept of racial or gender equality, that is expressly endorsed by most of the same far right billionaires who paid to make Trump president; including Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So what happens if you peel back another layer of this fascist onion to find out who is funding and promoting guys like Hanania, Rufo, and Boghossian? You find a rich cracker tech bro, and a eugenicist running a recently rebranded foundation that supports white supremacists, promotes scientific racism, and was literally founded by Nazis. No, really:

    bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/tru

    Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation

    "The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.

    This nexus of ties to Pioneer Fund entities and ideology throws new light on how the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are the fruit of a broader white supremacist endeavour inspired by Nazi-aligned ideology.

    It also suggests that the increasing normalisation of the Nazi salute by Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and others is not an accident either – but a signal; one we would do well not to ignore."

    Unfortunately this article is a long read, and it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that the problem here is the "ancient" history of the Human Diversity Foundation/Pioneer Diveristy fund, but if you keep reading the author is very clear that the politics and priorities of the foundation, haven't changed much in the modern era.

    "But last year, Hope Not Hate revealed that a network of white supremacist activists was secretly rehabilitating the Pioneer Fund under the new Human Diversity Foundation brand identity.

    The aim has been to normalise the Pioneer Fund’s Nazi-aligned scientific racism in the mainstream through the notion of open debate and ‘free’ inquiry. Scientific racism has been rebranded as the story of ‘human biodiversity’.

    The key funder supporting this initiative was revealed to be American technology entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who donated $1.3 million to the HDF. Around the same time, Conru was also funding the most influential conservative voices attacking DEI and ‘critical race theory’ – Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania.

    HDF’s magazine, Aporia, was founded by British far-right activist Matthew Frost. Conru’s donation provided him with a 15% stake in the group. It has defended Richard Lynn’s pseudoscientific racism, published an interview with Nazi sympathiser Jared Taylor, and in 2024 claimed that racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate”.

    Hope Not Hate’s undercover reporting recorded far-right activists associated with the HDF calling for “remigration” – the ‘mass removal of ethnic minorities’.

    Kirkegaard is the long-time editor of the Pioneer Fund-backed eugenics journal Mankind Quarterly, a founding board member of which was Nazi eugenicist Otmar von Verscheur – who taught and mentored Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi SS officer known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz.

    In 2023, both Kirkegaard and Frost attended a notorious neo-Nazi gathering known as the “Scandza Forum” in Estonia, hosted by Scandinavian neo-Nazi Fróði Midjord. The conference was that year renamed ‘Guide to Kulchur’ after a book by Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust supporter Ezra Pound.

    Kirkegaard inherited the assets of the Pioneer Fund from its former long-time president Richard Lynn before he died in July 2023."

    #Fascism #Trump #Nazis #WarOnWoke #Eugenics #Rufo #Hanania #Boghossian #HDF #PioneerFund #Kirkegaard #Conru #Broligarchs #GOP #Thiel #DEI

  27. Over the past eight or so years, I've been asked on numerous occasions how I could be so certain that Trumpworld and the right wing authoritarian tech billionaires that are funding the movement were literally fascists. The simple answer to that question is because I know where the ideas that motivate them and animate their movement come from. As openly fascistic as the Trump regime's exercise of power has been so far, if you peel back a single layer to look at the people providing the ideological framework for those activities, you almost always find literal nazis.

    Take for example the Trump regime's frequently self-identified "war on woke." On its face, the collection of policies and activities used to wage the "war on woke" so far have been fundamentally Christian Nationalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, and eliminationist in nature. If however you peel back the top surface of this "war" you find three major ideological propagandists driving the entire agenda: specifically Peter Boghossian, Christopher Rufo, and Richard Hanania; whose frankly odious ideas have had a huge influence on the Republican Party, and the Trump administration. These three have waged a war on higher education, diversity, and the very concept of racial or gender equality, that is expressly endorsed by most of the same far right billionaires who paid to make Trump president; including Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So what happens if you peel back another layer of this fascist onion to find out who is funding and promoting guys like Hanania, Rufo, and Boghossian? You find a rich cracker tech bro, and a eugenicist running a recently rebranded foundation that supports white supremacists, promotes scientific racism, and was literally founded by Nazis. No, really:

    bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/tru

    Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation

    "The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.

    This nexus of ties to Pioneer Fund entities and ideology throws new light on how the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are the fruit of a broader white supremacist endeavour inspired by Nazi-aligned ideology.

    It also suggests that the increasing normalisation of the Nazi salute by Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and others is not an accident either – but a signal; one we would do well not to ignore."

    Unfortunately this article is a long read, and it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that the problem here is the "ancient" history of the Human Diversity Foundation/Pioneer Diveristy fund, but if you keep reading the author is very clear that the politics and priorities of the foundation, haven't changed much in the modern era.

    "But last year, Hope Not Hate revealed that a network of white supremacist activists was secretly rehabilitating the Pioneer Fund under the new Human Diversity Foundation brand identity.

    The aim has been to normalise the Pioneer Fund’s Nazi-aligned scientific racism in the mainstream through the notion of open debate and ‘free’ inquiry. Scientific racism has been rebranded as the story of ‘human biodiversity’.

    The key funder supporting this initiative was revealed to be American technology entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who donated $1.3 million to the HDF. Around the same time, Conru was also funding the most influential conservative voices attacking DEI and ‘critical race theory’ – Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania.

    HDF’s magazine, Aporia, was founded by British far-right activist Matthew Frost. Conru’s donation provided him with a 15% stake in the group. It has defended Richard Lynn’s pseudoscientific racism, published an interview with Nazi sympathiser Jared Taylor, and in 2024 claimed that racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate”.

    Hope Not Hate’s undercover reporting recorded far-right activists associated with the HDF calling for “remigration” – the ‘mass removal of ethnic minorities’.

    Kirkegaard is the long-time editor of the Pioneer Fund-backed eugenics journal Mankind Quarterly, a founding board member of which was Nazi eugenicist Otmar von Verscheur – who taught and mentored Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi SS officer known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz.

    In 2023, both Kirkegaard and Frost attended a notorious neo-Nazi gathering known as the “Scandza Forum” in Estonia, hosted by Scandinavian neo-Nazi Fróði Midjord. The conference was that year renamed ‘Guide to Kulchur’ after a book by Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust supporter Ezra Pound.

    Kirkegaard inherited the assets of the Pioneer Fund from its former long-time president Richard Lynn before he died in July 2023."

    #Fascism #Trump #Nazis #WarOnWoke #Eugenics #Rufo #Hanania #Boghossian #HDF #PioneerFund #Kirkegaard #Conru #Broligarchs #GOP #Thiel #DEI

  28. Over the past eight or so years, I've been asked on numerous occasions how I could be so certain that Trumpworld and the right wing authoritarian tech billionaires that are funding the movement were literally fascists. The simple answer to that question is because I know where the ideas that motivate them and animate their movement come from. As openly fascistic as the Trump regime's exercise of power has been so far, if you peel back a single layer to look at the people providing the ideological framework for those activities, you almost always find literal nazis.

    Take for example the Trump regime's frequently self-identified "war on woke." On its face, the collection of policies and activities used to wage the "war on woke" so far have been fundamentally Christian Nationalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, and eliminationist in nature. If however you peel back the top surface of this "war" you find three major ideological propagandists driving the entire agenda: specifically Peter Boghossian, Christopher Rufo, and Richard Hanania; whose frankly odious ideas have had a huge influence on the Republican Party, and the Trump administration. These three have waged a war on higher education, diversity, and the very concept of racial or gender equality, that is expressly endorsed by most of the same far right billionaires who paid to make Trump president; including Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So what happens if you peel back another layer of this fascist onion to find out who is funding and promoting guys like Hanania, Rufo, and Boghossian? You find a rich cracker tech bro, and a eugenicist running a recently rebranded foundation that supports white supremacists, promotes scientific racism, and was literally founded by Nazis. No, really:

    bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/tru

    Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation

    "The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.

    This nexus of ties to Pioneer Fund entities and ideology throws new light on how the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are the fruit of a broader white supremacist endeavour inspired by Nazi-aligned ideology.

    It also suggests that the increasing normalisation of the Nazi salute by Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and others is not an accident either – but a signal; one we would do well not to ignore."

    Unfortunately this article is a long read, and it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that the problem here is the "ancient" history of the Human Diversity Foundation/Pioneer Diveristy fund, but if you keep reading the author is very clear that the politics and priorities of the foundation, haven't changed much in the modern era.

    "But last year, Hope Not Hate revealed that a network of white supremacist activists was secretly rehabilitating the Pioneer Fund under the new Human Diversity Foundation brand identity.

    The aim has been to normalise the Pioneer Fund’s Nazi-aligned scientific racism in the mainstream through the notion of open debate and ‘free’ inquiry. Scientific racism has been rebranded as the story of ‘human biodiversity’.

    The key funder supporting this initiative was revealed to be American technology entrepreneur Andrew Conru, who donated $1.3 million to the HDF. Around the same time, Conru was also funding the most influential conservative voices attacking DEI and ‘critical race theory’ – Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania.

    HDF’s magazine, Aporia, was founded by British far-right activist Matthew Frost. Conru’s donation provided him with a 15% stake in the group. It has defended Richard Lynn’s pseudoscientific racism, published an interview with Nazi sympathiser Jared Taylor, and in 2024 claimed that racial stereotypes are “reasonably accurate”.

    Hope Not Hate’s undercover reporting recorded far-right activists associated with the HDF calling for “remigration” – the ‘mass removal of ethnic minorities’.

    Kirkegaard is the long-time editor of the Pioneer Fund-backed eugenics journal Mankind Quarterly, a founding board member of which was Nazi eugenicist Otmar von Verscheur – who taught and mentored Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi SS officer known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz.

    In 2023, both Kirkegaard and Frost attended a notorious neo-Nazi gathering known as the “Scandza Forum” in Estonia, hosted by Scandinavian neo-Nazi Fróði Midjord. The conference was that year renamed ‘Guide to Kulchur’ after a book by Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust supporter Ezra Pound.

    Kirkegaard inherited the assets of the Pioneer Fund from its former long-time president Richard Lynn before he died in July 2023."

    #Fascism #Trump #Nazis #WarOnWoke #Eugenics #Rufo #Hanania #Boghossian #HDF #PioneerFund #Kirkegaard #Conru #Broligarchs #GOP #Thiel #DEI

  29. The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.

    The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

    ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21

    "As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."

    #Fascism #Trump #antisemitism #Gaza #Genocide #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #ICE #StudentProtests #IdeologicalPolicing #ChristianNationalism #MarcoRubio #Gorka #WarOnTerror #CivilRights #HumanRights #Broligarchs #Musk

  30. The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.

    The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

    ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21

    "As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."

    #Fascism #Trump #antisemitism #Gaza #Genocide #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #ICE #StudentProtests #IdeologicalPolicing #ChristianNationalism #MarcoRubio #Gorka #WarOnTerror #CivilRights #HumanRights #Broligarchs #Musk

  31. The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.

    The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

    ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21

    "As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."

    #Fascism #Trump #antisemitism #Gaza #Genocide #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #ICE #StudentProtests #IdeologicalPolicing #ChristianNationalism #MarcoRubio #Gorka #WarOnTerror #CivilRights #HumanRights #Broligarchs #Musk

  32. The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.

    The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference

    ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21

    "As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."

    #Fascism #Trump #antisemitism #Gaza #Genocide #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #ICE #StudentProtests #IdeologicalPolicing #ChristianNationalism #MarcoRubio #Gorka #WarOnTerror #CivilRights #HumanRights #Broligarchs #Musk