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tante

Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.

It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".

newrepublic.com/article/180487

11 comments
Tim Zöller

@tante If this was a SciFi novel, it would be disregarded as heavy handed and bad storytelling

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

@tante wtf did I just read, in any reasonable timeline that'd be too far out there to even qualify as dystopian satire

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

@tante I can see a person losing it and falling off the deep end, but how do these people have so many followers.
I'm coming around to the idea of extinction events.

Chris Heber

@tante
I wonder why nobody knows that America has been a fascist country—THE fascist country in the world—at least since WW2.

nigel
@tante@tldr.nettime.org the world is in a sad state, when deranged lunatics (intelligent ones though) are appealing to a non trivial number of people.
Mirko

@tante the „Our opinions are correct“ podcast recently made the point that the venn diagram of overconfident techbros and fascists looks almost like a circle

Dan Hedley

@tante oh good grief. Over-confident techbro reads Ayn Rand novel, takes it seriously, thinks he’s John bloody Galt.

MegatronicThronBanks

@tante
Anyone remember an old TV series called WILD PALMS?

Powersource

@tante “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” 💀

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