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https://www.europesays.com/people/78930/ “Get ready to stand up and fight back. It’s coming.” The tech bros & ‘Dark Enlightenment’ will lead us to ruin if given the chance ##curtisyarvin ##darkenlightenment ##freedomcities ##marcandreeson ##peterthiel #PeterThiel #TheVillage
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AmaZon(e) of Interest - Warum wir unsere kritischen #Infrastrukturen gegen #BigTech verteidigen müssen
Das neue Business von #Amazon & Co heißt: kritische Infrastrukturen. Mit dem Beitreiben von öffentlichen Verwaltungsplattformen, Datenzentren oder #Katastrophenhilfe werden Big Tech Unternehmen immer mehr zum privaten Rückgrat staatlicher Aufgaben.
Vor allem für #Städte und #Regierungen, die unter #Deindustrialisierung und #Sparpolitik leiden, versprechen „On-Demand”-Technologien Innovationen für Standorte, #Arbeitsplätze und eine neue regionale Identität.
Diese Public-Private-Partnerships haben einen hohen Preis: sie verwandeln unsere öffentlichen Räume nicht nur in Zones of Interest, Campus oder gar „#freedomcities“ für Tech-Eliten; sie begeben politische Entscheidungsträger*innen in Abhängigkeit von privaten, globalen und zunehmend auch technofaschistischen Interessen.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKI3-sjwp4
#Meta, #Google, #Amazon #Cloud #Netflix #Brandenburg
#Gewerbesteuer
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AmaZon(e) of Interest - Warum wir unsere kritischen #Infrastrukturen gegen #BigTech verteidigen müssen
Das neue Business von #Amazon & Co heißt: kritische Infrastrukturen. Mit dem Beitreiben von öffentlichen Verwaltungsplattformen, Datenzentren oder #Katastrophenhilfe werden Big Tech Unternehmen immer mehr zum privaten Rückgrat staatlicher Aufgaben.
Vor allem für #Städte und #Regierungen, die unter #Deindustrialisierung und #Sparpolitik leiden, versprechen „On-Demand”-Technologien Innovationen für Standorte, #Arbeitsplätze und eine neue regionale Identität.
Diese Public-Private-Partnerships haben einen hohen Preis: sie verwandeln unsere öffentlichen Räume nicht nur in Zones of Interest, Campus oder gar „#freedomcities“ für Tech-Eliten; sie begeben politische Entscheidungsträger*innen in Abhängigkeit von privaten, globalen und zunehmend auch technofaschistischen Interessen.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKI3-sjwp4
#Meta, #Google, #Amazon #Cloud #Netflix #Brandenburg
#Gewerbesteuer
#Infrastruktur #AWS -
AmaZon(e) of Interest - Warum wir unsere kritischen #Infrastrukturen gegen #BigTech verteidigen müssen
Das neue Business von #Amazon & Co heißt: kritische Infrastrukturen. Mit dem Beitreiben von öffentlichen Verwaltungsplattformen, Datenzentren oder #Katastrophenhilfe werden Big Tech Unternehmen immer mehr zum privaten Rückgrat staatlicher Aufgaben.
Vor allem für #Städte und #Regierungen, die unter #Deindustrialisierung und #Sparpolitik leiden, versprechen „On-Demand”-Technologien Innovationen für Standorte, #Arbeitsplätze und eine neue regionale Identität.
Diese Public-Private-Partnerships haben einen hohen Preis: sie verwandeln unsere öffentlichen Räume nicht nur in Zones of Interest, Campus oder gar „#freedomcities“ für Tech-Eliten; sie begeben politische Entscheidungsträger*innen in Abhängigkeit von privaten, globalen und zunehmend auch technofaschistischen Interessen.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKI3-sjwp4
#Meta, #Google, #Amazon #Cloud #Netflix #Brandenburg
#Gewerbesteuer
#Infrastruktur #AWS -
AmaZon(e) of Interest - Warum wir unsere kritischen #Infrastrukturen gegen #BigTech verteidigen müssen
Das neue Business von #Amazon & Co heißt: kritische Infrastrukturen. Mit dem Beitreiben von öffentlichen Verwaltungsplattformen, Datenzentren oder #Katastrophenhilfe werden Big Tech Unternehmen immer mehr zum privaten Rückgrat staatlicher Aufgaben.
Vor allem für #Städte und #Regierungen, die unter #Deindustrialisierung und #Sparpolitik leiden, versprechen „On-Demand”-Technologien Innovationen für Standorte, #Arbeitsplätze und eine neue regionale Identität.
Diese Public-Private-Partnerships haben einen hohen Preis: sie verwandeln unsere öffentlichen Räume nicht nur in Zones of Interest, Campus oder gar „#freedomcities“ für Tech-Eliten; sie begeben politische Entscheidungsträger*innen in Abhängigkeit von privaten, globalen und zunehmend auch technofaschistischen Interessen.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKI3-sjwp4
#Meta, #Google, #Amazon #Cloud #Netflix #Brandenburg
#Gewerbesteuer
#Infrastruktur #AWS -
Hey there fellow #SanFrancisco folk:
This is NOT A DRILL.
#TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #technoligarchy #technofascism #endtimesfascism #PeterThiel #BalajiSrinivasan #MarcAndreessen #PatriFriedman #PronomasCapital #FreedomCities #ProsperaHonduras #PraxisNetworkState #CaliforniaForever #EsmeraldaCloverdale #ThePresidio
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Hey there fellow #SanFrancisco folk:
This is NOT A DRILL.
#TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #technoligarchy #technofascism #endtimesfascism #PeterThiel #BalajiSrinivasan #MarcAndreessen #PatriFriedman #PronomasCapital #FreedomCities #ProsperaHonduras #PraxisNetworkState #CaliforniaForever #EsmeraldaCloverdale #ThePresidio
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Hey there fellow #SanFrancisco folk:
This is NOT A DRILL.
#TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #technoligarchy #technofascism #endtimesfascism #PeterThiel #BalajiSrinivasan #MarcAndreessen #PatriFriedman #PronomasCapital #FreedomCities #ProsperaHonduras #PraxisNetworkState #CaliforniaForever #EsmeraldaCloverdale #ThePresidio
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Hey there fellow #SanFrancisco folk:
This is NOT A DRILL.
#TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #technoligarchy #technofascism #endtimesfascism #PeterThiel #BalajiSrinivasan #MarcAndreessen #PatriFriedman #PronomasCapital #FreedomCities #ProsperaHonduras #PraxisNetworkState #CaliforniaForever #EsmeraldaCloverdale #ThePresidio
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Hey there fellow #SanFrancisco folk:
This is NOT A DRILL.
#TheNetworkState #TheNerdReich #technoligarchy #technofascism #endtimesfascism #PeterThiel #BalajiSrinivasan #MarcAndreessen #PatriFriedman #PronomasCapital #FreedomCities #ProsperaHonduras #PraxisNetworkState #CaliforniaForever #EsmeraldaCloverdale #ThePresidio
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Network State company Praxis has a recommended reading list featuring Nazi mysticism and ”race science” for new joiners.
But they also have Peter Thiel’s, Winklewosses and other’s billions, and can wield MAGA around like a blunt instrument as they please.
All that was old is new again.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cRDKXXzIuFQ
#freedomcities #networkstate #nazism #fascism #racism #1934again
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"Trump has expressed some interest in this idea; on the campaign trail, he proposed building “freedom cities” on federal land.
Still, it’s not entirely clear why the American president would care so much about saving a special economic zone in Latin America. That is, until one takes a look at Próspera’s Trump-aligned investors. That list includes Paypal’s Thiel, a Trump campaign donor who also is said to have played a key role in the selection of JD Vance as Trump’s running mate. Another prominent Próspera investor is venture capitalist Andreessen, who made significant campaign contributions to Trump and has also served as an adviser. Both Andreessen and Thiel have investment companies that benefit from government tech and defense contracts awarded under Trump.
At any rate, Stone appears to be taking a victory lap for having engineered the pardon. “Thank you, President Trump, for doing justice and granting the presidential pardon in the case of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was framed by Biden for an alleged drug trafficking that never existed,” he posted last week. “For a long time, I have advocated for a pardon in this case.”"
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#NationalParks Are #NativeLands
"All national parks exist on traditional #Indigenous lands, and in many cases, thousands of years’ worth of #NativeAmerican history has been documented at national park sites."
https://www.npca.org/case-studies/national-parks-are-native-lands
#LandBack #StolenLands #TechBros #FreedomCities #TechBrosSuck #WaterIsLife #NatureIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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#NationalParks Are #NativeLands
"All national parks exist on traditional #Indigenous lands, and in many cases, thousands of years’ worth of #NativeAmerican history has been documented at national park sites."
https://www.npca.org/case-studies/national-parks-are-native-lands
#LandBack #StolenLands #TechBros #FreedomCities #TechBrosSuck #WaterIsLife #NatureIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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#NationalParks Are #NativeLands
"All national parks exist on traditional #Indigenous lands, and in many cases, thousands of years’ worth of #NativeAmerican history has been documented at national park sites."
https://www.npca.org/case-studies/national-parks-are-native-lands
#LandBack #StolenLands #TechBros #FreedomCities #TechBrosSuck #WaterIsLife #NatureIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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#NationalParks Are #NativeLands
"All national parks exist on traditional #Indigenous lands, and in many cases, thousands of years’ worth of #NativeAmerican history has been documented at national park sites."
https://www.npca.org/case-studies/national-parks-are-native-lands
#LandBack #StolenLands #TechBros #FreedomCities #TechBrosSuck #WaterIsLife #NatureIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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#NationalParks Are #NativeLands
"All national parks exist on traditional #Indigenous lands, and in many cases, thousands of years’ worth of #NativeAmerican history has been documented at national park sites."
https://www.npca.org/case-studies/national-parks-are-native-lands
#LandBack #StolenLands #TechBros #FreedomCities #TechBrosSuck #WaterIsLife #NatureIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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Hintergrund | DLF: Disneyland für Auserwählte
Wer den Staat abschaffen will, braucht einen Plan B. Tech-Milliardäre wünschen sich „Freedom Cities“ – Städte, die nach rein wirtschaftlicher Logik funktionieren. Oder gleich eine eigene Weltraumkolonie. Doch nicht jeder darf mitmachen...#Hintergrund #Kapitalismus #Privatstadt #Freedom-Cities #Antidemokratisch #Demokratie #Staat #Gesellschaft #Faschismus #Markt #Wahn #DLF #2025-08-03
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Hintergrund | DLF: Disneyland für Auserwählte
Wer den Staat abschaffen will, braucht einen Plan B. Tech-Milliardäre wünschen sich „Freedom Cities“ – Städte, die nach rein wirtschaftlicher Logik funktionieren. Oder gleich eine eigene Weltraumkolonie. Doch nicht jeder darf mitmachen...#Hintergrund #Kapitalismus #Privatstadt #Freedom-Cities #Antidemokratisch #Demokratie #Staat #Gesellschaft #Faschismus #Markt #Wahn #DLF #2025-08-03
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Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism"
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have pulled together lots of important threads here:
#uspol #worldpol #oligarchs #ClimateChange #AI #FreedomCities #neocolonialism #DisasterCapitalism
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I've made no secret of the fact that I think the nazi "broligarch" cultists who brought Trump to power, and support the creation of monarchal, technofeudalist city states under a variety of names (Network States, and Freedom Cities most prominently) are working on a larger, dystopian plan for literal authoritarian global domination; a plan that encompasses and revolves around the destruction of democratic structures, the implementation of digital fascist surveillance and repression via AI technology, the adoption of quasi-religious beliefs about our future as exemplified by the TESCREAL movement, and even the fascist plan to remake America into a type of dictatorship under Trump proposed by "neo-reactionary scholar" Curtis Yarvin, also known as The Butterfly Revolution. Taken together, the proponents of these ideas, who are often quite wealthy and influential people in our society and in particular the tech industry, have dubbed their ideology "Dark Enlightenment" which should give you at least some idea of both how obnoxious these rich fascists are, but also how far-reaching their plans ultimately go.
Furthermore, I am certain that this isn't just some weird conspiracy theory for three key reasons. First, the billionaire fascists have more or less told us their plans in the open. Secondly, since buying themselves a president, a small group of hyper-reactionary billionaires led by the world's richest nazi, Elon Musk, have more or less guided the Trump regime to act in countless ways that directly facilitate their obscene visions for the future of humanity.
Finally of course, there are quantifiable structural reasons why what these nazi cultist billionaires are proposing represents one of the only possible futures in which most of the planet maintains capitalism and free market fundamentalist ideology. After all, the planet is on fire, billions of people's lives are at stake if we don't act collectively to address climate crisis, and capitalism is the culprit causing both our impending destruction and our refusal to act; either capitalism and free market fundamentalism go to their graves, or billions of everyday people do, and these billionaire nazis know that. Folks aren't going to keep supporting a capitalist order that's killing them as the bodies pile up, so if you're going to keep doing capitalism for the benefit of an increasingly smaller ruling class, even as it leads to genocides all around us, you're going to need a political system that provides the necessary degree of surveillance, repression, and applied force to maintain control even as society disintegrates in real time - and that political system is going to look a lot like fascism, no matter what they choose to call it.
Despite their rhetoric about "the future" and their love of technology, the truth is the ideas and plans folks like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen (to name a few) are proposing to accomplish their goals, are old, decrepit, and often utterly disproven. As a species, we have already learned the horrible outcomes of adopting repugnant ideas like eugenics, feudalism, and fascism as enforced policy; and yet here today these ideas are being repackaged and renamed as the only hope for our future, by a billionaire nazi ruling class determined to rewind our society into the darkest days of our collective past. Down that road leads subjugation, violence, and death; which is probably why it appeals to rich nazis who value "artificial minds" (and labor) over human beings, and are preparing for a world where billions of people are "surplus" to their requirements as techno-feudalist overlords.
To demonstrate this last point, let's look at a piece by J.J. Anselmi writing in The New Republic that identifies a new (old) way to look at the Network States/Freedom cities plan being pushed by Balaji Srinivasan and his ultra wealthy backers; as the author notes, at its core a "Network State" or "Freedom City" is really just a big company town:
Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam
"Tech bros love to repackage old ideas as innovation. We’ve all seen it. But their latest foray into disruption no one else wants, the so-called “network state” and its constellation of start-up cities, deserves our attention. This notion has been embraced by President Donald Trump, who has rechristened them “freedom cities.” In reality, the scheme is a techno-fascist vision of the future that’s been quietly but persistently pushed and funded by billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, and Sam Altman for years. Despite the shiny marketing materials for places like Próspera and California Forever, which make outlandish promises of futuristic utopias, the start-up city as a concept is a modern, ketamine-infused repackaging of something that flopped into obsolescence long ago: the company town."
#Fascism #Trump #Dystopia #Billionaires #Musk #NetworkState #FreedomCities #CompanyTown #AI #BigTech
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I've made no secret of the fact that I think the nazi "broligarch" cultists who brought Trump to power, and support the creation of monarchal, technofeudalist city states under a variety of names (Network States, and Freedom Cities most prominently) are working on a larger, dystopian plan for literal authoritarian global domination; a plan that encompasses and revolves around the destruction of democratic structures, the implementation of digital fascist surveillance and repression via AI technology, the adoption of quasi-religious beliefs about our future as exemplified by the TESCREAL movement, and even the fascist plan to remake America into a type of dictatorship under Trump proposed by "neo-reactionary scholar" Curtis Yarvin, also known as The Butterfly Revolution. Taken together, the proponents of these ideas, who are often quite wealthy and influential people in our society and in particular the tech industry, have dubbed their ideology "Dark Enlightenment" which should give you at least some idea of both how obnoxious these rich fascists are, but also how far-reaching their plans ultimately go.
Furthermore, I am certain that this isn't just some weird conspiracy theory for three key reasons. First, the billionaire fascists have more or less told us their plans in the open. Secondly, since buying themselves a president, a small group of hyper-reactionary billionaires led by the world's richest nazi, Elon Musk, have more or less guided the Trump regime to act in countless ways that directly facilitate their obscene visions for the future of humanity.
Finally of course, there are quantifiable structural reasons why what these nazi cultist billionaires are proposing represents one of the only possible futures in which most of the planet maintains capitalism and free market fundamentalist ideology. After all, the planet is on fire, billions of people's lives are at stake if we don't act collectively to address climate crisis, and capitalism is the culprit causing both our impending destruction and our refusal to act; either capitalism and free market fundamentalism go to their graves, or billions of everyday people do, and these billionaire nazis know that. Folks aren't going to keep supporting a capitalist order that's killing them as the bodies pile up, so if you're going to keep doing capitalism for the benefit of an increasingly smaller ruling class, even as it leads to genocides all around us, you're going to need a political system that provides the necessary degree of surveillance, repression, and applied force to maintain control even as society disintegrates in real time - and that political system is going to look a lot like fascism, no matter what they choose to call it.
Despite their rhetoric about "the future" and their love of technology, the truth is the ideas and plans folks like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen (to name a few) are proposing to accomplish their goals, are old, decrepit, and often utterly disproven. As a species, we have already learned the horrible outcomes of adopting repugnant ideas like eugenics, feudalism, and fascism as enforced policy; and yet here today these ideas are being repackaged and renamed as the only hope for our future, by a billionaire nazi ruling class determined to rewind our society into the darkest days of our collective past. Down that road leads subjugation, violence, and death; which is probably why it appeals to rich nazis who value "artificial minds" (and labor) over human beings, and are preparing for a world where billions of people are "surplus" to their requirements as techno-feudalist overlords.
To demonstrate this last point, let's look at a piece by J.J. Anselmi writing in The New Republic that identifies a new (old) way to look at the Network States/Freedom cities plan being pushed by Balaji Srinivasan and his ultra wealthy backers; as the author notes, at its core a "Network State" or "Freedom City" is really just a big company town:
Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam
"Tech bros love to repackage old ideas as innovation. We’ve all seen it. But their latest foray into disruption no one else wants, the so-called “network state” and its constellation of start-up cities, deserves our attention. This notion has been embraced by President Donald Trump, who has rechristened them “freedom cities.” In reality, the scheme is a techno-fascist vision of the future that’s been quietly but persistently pushed and funded by billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, and Sam Altman for years. Despite the shiny marketing materials for places like Próspera and California Forever, which make outlandish promises of futuristic utopias, the start-up city as a concept is a modern, ketamine-infused repackaging of something that flopped into obsolescence long ago: the company town."
#Fascism #Trump #Dystopia #Billionaires #Musk #NetworkState #FreedomCities #CompanyTown #AI #BigTech
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I've made no secret of the fact that I think the nazi "broligarch" cultists who brought Trump to power, and support the creation of monarchal, technofeudalist city states under a variety of names (Network States, and Freedom Cities most prominently) are working on a larger, dystopian plan for literal authoritarian global domination; a plan that encompasses and revolves around the destruction of democratic structures, the implementation of digital fascist surveillance and repression via AI technology, the adoption of quasi-religious beliefs about our future as exemplified by the TESCREAL movement, and even the fascist plan to remake America into a type of dictatorship under Trump proposed by "neo-reactionary scholar" Curtis Yarvin, also known as The Butterfly Revolution. Taken together, the proponents of these ideas, who are often quite wealthy and influential people in our society and in particular the tech industry, have dubbed their ideology "Dark Enlightenment" which should give you at least some idea of both how obnoxious these rich fascists are, but also how far-reaching their plans ultimately go.
Furthermore, I am certain that this isn't just some weird conspiracy theory for three key reasons. First, the billionaire fascists have more or less told us their plans in the open. Secondly, since buying themselves a president, a small group of hyper-reactionary billionaires led by the world's richest nazi, Elon Musk, have more or less guided the Trump regime to act in countless ways that directly facilitate their obscene visions for the future of humanity.
Finally of course, there are quantifiable structural reasons why what these nazi cultist billionaires are proposing represents one of the only possible futures in which most of the planet maintains capitalism and free market fundamentalist ideology. After all, the planet is on fire, billions of people's lives are at stake if we don't act collectively to address climate crisis, and capitalism is the culprit causing both our impending destruction and our refusal to act; either capitalism and free market fundamentalism go to their graves, or billions of everyday people do, and these billionaire nazis know that. Folks aren't going to keep supporting a capitalist order that's killing them as the bodies pile up, so if you're going to keep doing capitalism for the benefit of an increasingly smaller ruling class, even as it leads to genocides all around us, you're going to need a political system that provides the necessary degree of surveillance, repression, and applied force to maintain control even as society disintegrates in real time - and that political system is going to look a lot like fascism, no matter what they choose to call it.
Despite their rhetoric about "the future" and their love of technology, the truth is the ideas and plans folks like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen (to name a few) are proposing to accomplish their goals, are old, decrepit, and often utterly disproven. As a species, we have already learned the horrible outcomes of adopting repugnant ideas like eugenics, feudalism, and fascism as enforced policy; and yet here today these ideas are being repackaged and renamed as the only hope for our future, by a billionaire nazi ruling class determined to rewind our society into the darkest days of our collective past. Down that road leads subjugation, violence, and death; which is probably why it appeals to rich nazis who value "artificial minds" (and labor) over human beings, and are preparing for a world where billions of people are "surplus" to their requirements as techno-feudalist overlords.
To demonstrate this last point, let's look at a piece by J.J. Anselmi writing in The New Republic that identifies a new (old) way to look at the Network States/Freedom cities plan being pushed by Balaji Srinivasan and his ultra wealthy backers; as the author notes, at its core a "Network State" or "Freedom City" is really just a big company town:
Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam
"Tech bros love to repackage old ideas as innovation. We’ve all seen it. But their latest foray into disruption no one else wants, the so-called “network state” and its constellation of start-up cities, deserves our attention. This notion has been embraced by President Donald Trump, who has rechristened them “freedom cities.” In reality, the scheme is a techno-fascist vision of the future that’s been quietly but persistently pushed and funded by billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, and Sam Altman for years. Despite the shiny marketing materials for places like Próspera and California Forever, which make outlandish promises of futuristic utopias, the start-up city as a concept is a modern, ketamine-infused repackaging of something that flopped into obsolescence long ago: the company town."
#Fascism #Trump #Dystopia #Billionaires #Musk #NetworkState #FreedomCities #CompanyTown #AI #BigTech
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I've made no secret of the fact that I think the nazi "broligarch" cultists who brought Trump to power, and support the creation of monarchal, technofeudalist city states under a variety of names (Network States, and Freedom Cities most prominently) are working on a larger, dystopian plan for literal authoritarian global domination; a plan that encompasses and revolves around the destruction of democratic structures, the implementation of digital fascist surveillance and repression via AI technology, the adoption of quasi-religious beliefs about our future as exemplified by the TESCREAL movement, and even the fascist plan to remake America into a type of dictatorship under Trump proposed by "neo-reactionary scholar" Curtis Yarvin, also known as The Butterfly Revolution. Taken together, the proponents of these ideas, who are often quite wealthy and influential people in our society and in particular the tech industry, have dubbed their ideology "Dark Enlightenment" which should give you at least some idea of both how obnoxious these rich fascists are, but also how far-reaching their plans ultimately go.
Furthermore, I am certain that this isn't just some weird conspiracy theory for three key reasons. First, the billionaire fascists have more or less told us their plans in the open. Secondly, since buying themselves a president, a small group of hyper-reactionary billionaires led by the world's richest nazi, Elon Musk, have more or less guided the Trump regime to act in countless ways that directly facilitate their obscene visions for the future of humanity.
Finally of course, there are quantifiable structural reasons why what these nazi cultist billionaires are proposing represents one of the only possible futures in which most of the planet maintains capitalism and free market fundamentalist ideology. After all, the planet is on fire, billions of people's lives are at stake if we don't act collectively to address climate crisis, and capitalism is the culprit causing both our impending destruction and our refusal to act; either capitalism and free market fundamentalism go to their graves, or billions of everyday people do, and these billionaire nazis know that. Folks aren't going to keep supporting a capitalist order that's killing them as the bodies pile up, so if you're going to keep doing capitalism for the benefit of an increasingly smaller ruling class, even as it leads to genocides all around us, you're going to need a political system that provides the necessary degree of surveillance, repression, and applied force to maintain control even as society disintegrates in real time - and that political system is going to look a lot like fascism, no matter what they choose to call it.
Despite their rhetoric about "the future" and their love of technology, the truth is the ideas and plans folks like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen (to name a few) are proposing to accomplish their goals, are old, decrepit, and often utterly disproven. As a species, we have already learned the horrible outcomes of adopting repugnant ideas like eugenics, feudalism, and fascism as enforced policy; and yet here today these ideas are being repackaged and renamed as the only hope for our future, by a billionaire nazi ruling class determined to rewind our society into the darkest days of our collective past. Down that road leads subjugation, violence, and death; which is probably why it appeals to rich nazis who value "artificial minds" (and labor) over human beings, and are preparing for a world where billions of people are "surplus" to their requirements as techno-feudalist overlords.
To demonstrate this last point, let's look at a piece by J.J. Anselmi writing in The New Republic that identifies a new (old) way to look at the Network States/Freedom cities plan being pushed by Balaji Srinivasan and his ultra wealthy backers; as the author notes, at its core a "Network State" or "Freedom City" is really just a big company town:
Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam
"Tech bros love to repackage old ideas as innovation. We’ve all seen it. But their latest foray into disruption no one else wants, the so-called “network state” and its constellation of start-up cities, deserves our attention. This notion has been embraced by President Donald Trump, who has rechristened them “freedom cities.” In reality, the scheme is a techno-fascist vision of the future that’s been quietly but persistently pushed and funded by billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, and Sam Altman for years. Despite the shiny marketing materials for places like Próspera and California Forever, which make outlandish promises of futuristic utopias, the start-up city as a concept is a modern, ketamine-infused repackaging of something that flopped into obsolescence long ago: the company town."
#Fascism #Trump #Dystopia #Billionaires #Musk #NetworkState #FreedomCities #CompanyTown #AI #BigTech
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#Project2025 #FreedomCities #Thiel [ #Palantir ]
"The experiment was called the “Free Town Project” (it later became the “Free State Project”), and the goal was simple: take over Grafton’s local government and turn it into a libertarian utopia. The movement was cooked up by a small group of ragtag libertarian activists who saw in Grafton a unique opportunity to realize their dreams of a perfectly logical and perfectly market-based community..."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling -
Ummmm... Makes me *almost* wish for a #CarringtonEvent. smh
The dystopian "#FreedomCities" dream fueling #ElonMusk's destruction
Tech's plans for #BillionaireRule expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published March 17, 2025"In our cynical times, most people are familiar enough with doublespeak to understand that anything called a 'freedom city' is likely to be the opposite. It's a sign of the delusional self-confidence in their own mendacious powers that the tech oligarchs who are financing this idiotic idea insist on going with that branding anyway. Investigative reporters Vittoria Elliott and Caroline Haskins published an in-depth report on this scheme for Wired earlier this month. What immediately becomes clear is that what the Silicon Valley billionaire class considers 'freedom cities' is simply neo-feudalism, a plan to end the concept of citizenship and make every working person a serf whose entire life is controlled by the whims of their boss."
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dystopian-freedom-cities-dream-fueling-elon-musks-destruction/
#PrepareToBeASerf #NeoFeudalism #Dystopia #DOGE #BadDOGE #USPol #TechBros #TechOligarchs #Oligarchy
#BellRiots anyone? Anyone? -
@Edelruth
Could this be a reason some want to build/install #FreedomCities ?
Because Islands and bunkers are not enough and they want their "own" societies to actually "care" for each of "them"?
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@rtp_tips Thanks for the Video. The idea of “Freedom Cities” has a bad vibe to it, especially after reenacting the #AlienEnemiesAct.
I feel a disturbing closeness to the Ghettos of the 3rd Reich, not saying they are exactly the same, but they feel like a neo-feudalist surveillance capitalist law free zone.
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Krieg ist Frieden!
Freiheit ist Sklaverei!"Es ist ein Merkmal des Faschismus, dass er die Sprache zynisch umwandelt und so ein großes Verbrechen als etwas Positives darstellt. Genau das geschieht auch mit den “Freedom Cities”."
Der Traum von den Sklavenstädten #FreedomCities
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“#FreedomCities”: Der Traum von den #Sklavenstädte'n [von #Thiel -> #Palantir]
"Medizinische Unternehmen können ihre neu entwickelten Produkte einfach gleich an Menschen testen, ohne dass es zuvor lange Testreihen gegeben hat. Andere Unternehmen können Arbeitskräfte ohne Regeln für Arbeitszeit, Lohn oder Sicherheit und selbstverständlich ohne jede Form von Arbeitsrechten, Gewerkschaften oder Betriebsräten einsetzen."
https://www.moment.at/story/freedom-cities-sklavenstaedte/ -
PART II: USA Corporate Governed "Freedom Cities"
Watch On #Peertube
#privacy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #freedomcities #USA #dictatorship #monarchy #bigtech #surveillance #massSurveillance #publicPrivatePartnership #fascism
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for #Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
"#Minicircle’s gene #therapy clinical trial on the protein follistatin — which he claims increases muscle mass without side effects, and also has life-extending benefits in mice — was only possible in #Próspera...companies benefiting from #FreedomCities..."
#Thiel #Palantir
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/ -
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for #Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
"#Minicircle’s gene #therapy clinical trial on the protein follistatin — which he claims increases muscle mass without side effects, and also has life-extending benefits in mice — was only possible in #Próspera...companies benefiting from #FreedomCities..."
#Thiel #Palantir
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for #Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
"#Minicircle’s gene #therapy clinical trial on the protein follistatin — which he claims increases muscle mass without side effects, and also has life-extending benefits in mice — was only possible in #Próspera...companies benefiting from #FreedomCities..."
#Thiel #Palantir
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/ -
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for #Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
"#Minicircle’s gene #therapy clinical trial on the protein follistatin — which he claims increases muscle mass without side effects, and also has life-extending benefits in mice — was only possible in #Próspera...companies benefiting from #FreedomCities..."
#Thiel #Palantir
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for #Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
"#Minicircle’s gene #therapy clinical trial on the protein follistatin — which he claims increases muscle mass without side effects, and also has life-extending benefits in mice — was only possible in #Próspera...companies benefiting from #FreedomCities..."
#Thiel #Palantir
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Welcome to the human race! - #SnakePlissken Wenn die Realität versucht die Fiktion bzw. #Rollenspiele wie #Shadowrun / #SixthWorld bzw. #Cyberpunk2020 / #CyberpunkRed / #Cyberpunk2077 einzuholen. Eine Mischung aus #FreedomCities und #Gilead hat doch etwas Verlockendes? #ttrpg #pnp #dystopien
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:foc4lht37ziujsrhbz6jhyk7/post/3lk3xva7m7225 -
Unregulierte Tech-Tests: #Thiel, Altman und Co wollen #FreedomCities
"Im Weißen Haus sollen Gespräche geführt werden, wie man Freedom Cities in den USA errichten kann – Städte ohne Regulierung.
Klinische Tests ohne Genehmigung, autonome Autos ohne Auflagen, Kernreaktoren und Nuklearenergie ohne staatliche Überwachung und eine Sonderwirtschaftszone, in der es kaum Steuern zu zahlen gibt und..."
#Palantir #Anduril #Oklo #SpaceX #Tesla #Minicircle
https://www.heise.de/news/Unregulierte-Tech-Tests-Thiel-Altman-und-Co-wollen-Freedom-Cities-10309769.html -
Die Freedom Cities Coalition verhandelt derzeit mit Vertretern des Weißen Hauses über die Umsetzung solcher Zonen in den USA.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10309769?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
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Was haltet ihr von der Idee der #FreedomCities? Sind sie der Weg in die Zukunft oder ein gefährliches Experiment?
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„Klinische Tests ohne Genehmigung, autonome Autos ohne Auflagen, Kernreaktoren und Nuklearenergie ohne staatliche Überwachung und eine Sonderwirtschaftszone, in der es kaum Steuern zu zahlen gibt und auch die Rechte von Arbeitskräften außer Kraft gesetzt werden. So stellen sich zahlreiche Chefs der Big-Tech-Unternehmen und US-Investoren die Zukunft vor – von Peter Thiel bis Sam Altman und Marc Andreessen. Donald Trump soll es möglich machen. Schon 2023 hatte er im Wahlkampf davon gesprochen, solche Freedom Cities in den USA zu ermöglichen.…“
Unregulierte Tech-Tests: Thiel, Altman und Co wollen Freedom Cities
https://www.heise.de/news/Unregulierte-Tech-Tests-Thiel-Altman-und-Co-wollen-Freedom-Cities-10309769.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#Überwachungskapitalismus #Technology #Thiel #Trump #Musk #Usa #FreedomCities #AI #Surveillance
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting #Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like #Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
#freedomcities #startupnationhttps://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
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CW: USPol, Freedom Cities
Wait, so the guy who couldn't even build a single wall now wants to build ten entire cities? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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#DonaldTrump is misappropriating the term #FreedomCities, that has been used by the New York Worker Center Federation (WCF) and the Freedom Cities movement accross the #US at least since 2017 to describe the movements aim to "to redefine safety and to demand investment in people and the planet. Safety is ending police/ICE brutality and creating a just economy through reinvestment and reparations."
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/mobilizing-against-inequality/post/workers-organizing-freedom
