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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". https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat 11 comments
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.
Chris Heber
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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.
Dan Hedley
@tante oh good grief. Over-confident techbro reads Ayn Rand novel, takes it seriously, thinks he’s John bloody Galt.   |
Gregory's Server
@tante If this was a SciFi novel, it would be disregarded as heavy handed and bad storytelling