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Hrmm. I wonder why they would censor such a conspiratorial idea? Unless…
In modern day the difference between tin foil conspiracy and out right conspiracy appears to be about 6 months
Delete your facebook products.
If you know someone who works at facebook, try to convince them to leave.
If you see someone who’s in a leadership position at Facebook bleeding out, perhaps after a car accident because their brakes were sabotaged, let them die.
i wish. if i delete whatsapp ill be completely isolated. sadly they cornered the entire market in my country including sms.
it would unironically take a big outage for everyone to move though. heres hoping an industrious hacker is willing to paint that kind of target on their own back.
i’ve been trying to get people to switch platforms for years. it’s not easy. if only people cared more about things than they want convenience…
The Network State is just feudalism updated to accommodate a new set of vile and toxic elitist shitheads.
Just another reason to abandon social networks owned by big tech companies and moving to decentralized open source social networks.
I’m curious what people think of the author, Taylor Lorenz? I noticed I have her blocked on some social media and couldn’t remember why. I searched a little and found she had referred to Biden as a war criminal on WaPo, just prior to the election. Probably when I started blocking everything I didn’t think was generative in terms of news. I still think it’s a shit-take but am wondering if I’m just being thin-skinned? Is she a decent writer? Should we be following her? This is definitely an important story to follow. Anyhow, I have moved onto getting my stories from rss readers and some social media, no paid subscriptions to legacy MSM. So, scrutinizing individual writers becomes more critical.
Here’s a similar article discussing the techno-libertarian movement from a different author. Covers similar themes and explicitly discusses the Network State as an ideology
Thank you.
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Thanks. That’s the sense I got. I’ll follow her again, I guess.
She’s been caught in some stealth edits and other unethical practises when trying to push a specific narrative. I don’t trust her reporting very much after following her work during the Depp-Heard trial in '21. It is unfortunate that her need to push her, or her publishers, agenda appears to be more important than honest reporting, and I’m saying this as a very left-leaning, queer person.
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She was staunchly pro-Heard, which in and of itself isn’t a problem. However, she lied about reaching out to pro-Depp commentators (some of whom were lawyers) for comments for a piece she wrote, and the article was then stealth-edited after she got called out by several commentators.
Together with her later insistence that she did not share a meme calling Biden a war criminal, only to later admit to doing exactly that, I don’t find her reporting particularly trustworthy. I try to verify her facts from other sources, and I mostly avoid her opinion pieces.
Ah, now that does start to ring a bell. Thank you.
She might be the one that Libs of Tiktok has an unhealthy stalkery lady boner for.
Streisand effect: I had never heard of the “network state” until now. Uh, thanks for being such an asshole, Zuck!
There’s a whole video that blew up a couple weeks ago about this. Highly recommend you watch it.
This is exactly the video I was going to share. It’s really scary realizing how much closer they are to pulling it off since the video was made
Yep, and this came out before a lot of shit talked about fucking happened.
This video is a must watch. She exposing some crazy shit in this video.
I just found out like a week ago. Look up techno feudalism. Apparently these guys have been talking about it for a long time.
Curtis Yarvin is the guy peddling this shit and influencing these idiots
You’re going to have to spread it IRL, because the media will not allow this to gain traction.
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Lol what gave you that impression
Of course they are. They’ll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.
They’ll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.
Damn right they should!
Managed Democracy is the true path, all who resist it shall suffer our wrath~.
(I hate the possibility that this could be a real thing in the future)
We edge closer to Weyland-Yuyani hegemony every day, only the IRL technocrats will be stupider and greedier IRL
Humanity: invents capitalism government
Engineers: Hold my dark fluid, I’ve got a mistake to fix
I associate it with “The Space Merchants” and their corporate congress.
It’s a really good book written in 1952 and talks about climate change, rampant corporate greed, synthetic meat… Really good read.
Zuckerberg:( hello fellow organic lifeform, you must not converse in my take over of your limited lifespan
He doesn’t want his plans posted.
Really liked the article.
They are afraid
This man has a bunker and everything. He’s scared shitless and he is ready to hide. Their assets need to be seized and accounts drained
Crypto exchanges need to be taxed.
That’s not a joke, ALL these dudes have extensive doomsday prep. Secure facilities, staffed and stocked. There’s a ton of reporting on it. They’re gonna fare a LOT better than we are if shit gets really outta hand. Unless we do something about them before it gets to that point, anyway.
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They are going to get killed by their own militias
If you had billions, wouldn’t you have a prepper facility? Even if there were no global warming or political upheaval, it’s common sense when you have money like that.
“Hey, want to build a doomsday shelter for .0001% of your net worth?”
“Meh, why not.”
They don’t necessarily have to see bad times coming is my point.
No? If I ACTUALLY wanted to ride out through some sort of apocalypse, a bunker ain’t gonna cut it. I would bankroll and actively participate in a fully self-sustaining off-the-grid community. Rich people always forget the second part, probably because they are psychopaths. Remember that article where they were asking about putting shock collars on their bunker security guys? If they literally just got beers with them once a week, they’d probably shoot all the migrants you ask them to. It’s an irony that they consider their time ‘too valuable’ for that, as it turns out that the one thing you can’t buy is a sense of community.
Of course, I would endeavor to not own several billion dollars of stolen property in the first place, but different strokes.
It was explosive collars, like from battle royale
You are correct, but also when you look at the aggregate of their behavior and goals (both stated and implied) you have to reach the conclusion that they WANT to use the bunker. Or want a scenario in which it becomes useful.
The scary part is that you might be wrong, they may not even realize they’re causing it and are just stuck in a loop of “number go up”
Looking at stock markets, very few numbers are going up
Yeah, I feel like most of them are stuck in ‘number go up’, but I also think that the desire to make your investment ‘worth it’ gets stronger the more money you pour into a bunker system.
I would too, but I would also be worried about the idea of being sealed in. Concrete is cheap. So is welding and thermite.
The native Hawaiians should reclaim their land he stole so he doesn’t have a bunker anymore
Imagine just letting him be in his bunker, but you park a cement truck on top of the door.
Can we put them in there now?
Why wait? Cement the bunkers before they can hide in them!
You think we could pull a “Blast from the Past” and think Zuck into thinking the world is ending so he rushes to his bunker?
His bunker on a Hawaiian Island. Dude really wants to be far away from everything when shit pops off.
Yeah because when I think about kicking off world wars, the last locale on my mind is Hawaii
Bunker on a tropical island you say? Don’t worry, I know of some people that have some notes on that. Any secrets he has about that thing are practically out by now.
This is either a shit post or I’m looking at something glowing radioactive hot and I can’t tell which.
The Native Hawaiians will take care of him
It would be most justice most poetic for the coup against Queen Lili’uokalani carried out by American business interests.
What I’m hearing is that after we overthrow the government and Destroy capitalism we have to dig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial
Or, hold a trial, and if convicted, we seal him in his bunker and bury it and cut it off from all outside contact. And depending on the severity of his conviction, plugging up every “air hole” could go along as capital punishment. Give him a very twilight zone ending, he wanted to hide in his bunker, and now he’ll spend the rest of his life in it, however long that may be.
Don’t plug them up - fart in them.
dig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial
Just weld the door closed. Problem solved.
Don’t forget the air vents
That’s where you pile the poop
I’ve never been to Hawaii, but I’ll show up for that 😎
Communists were the crazy ones for thinking liberal democracies in reality were a capitalists dictatorship but here we are.
Also funnily the US is already a corporate goverment, they just want to make it more lean.
Corporations can’t even run corporations well. That’s one of the lessons we should’ve took from 2008.
