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Jennifer Anderson's avatar

I am very curious where things go when the Christian Nationalists they teamed up with catch on. The infighting of the fascists for who gets to be on top might be the only thing that saves us. Unfortunately too many people think the movement to break our country up into a feudal techno state is a conspiracy. Thank you for speaking on it.

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Andy's avatar

The HIB visa fight back in february was the billionaires thumbing their nose at the white supremacists. If they havent caught on yet, they arent going to.

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Anneliese Larin's avatar

I have understood this dark vision for over a year, people I explain it to think I’m insane. Besides that and calling on our feckless leaders in government to wake the fuck up, what can we literally do to stop it ?

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Daniel Pareja's avatar

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." -- Hannah Arendt

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Yankee's avatar

The foreign born tech elite's capture of the federal government has already happened, but whether their homegrown Heritage Foundation allies in positions of power, like Russell Vought, are on the same page of total destruction of the existing state is an open question. Typically, the Heritage Foundation types are Christian Nationalists, like Mike Johnson and Vought, who don't want to destroy the US, they just want to control and subjugate it. Their faction includes conservative Catholics, and evangelical Protestants, who all believe in disenfranchising women and blacks to derail political opposition to authoritarianism. There's evidence of significant conflict between the South Africans (Musk, Thiel and Sacks) and the Heritage Foundation minions. It appears that Vance is positioned as a figure that can bridge the two factions. He's a disciple of Thiel, but also a recent convert to Catholicism. Americans uniformly despise Vance, so it's unlikely that the plan is for him to win an election. What to do? This is not a difficult question; but the answer is not what any American wants to hear. The first step is to take out your pocket Constitution and read the Second Amendment. Think carefully about the definition of "tyranny". We have one more election in Nov. 2026 to return control of the government to the people. If that fails, we will have to re-take the government through total population rebellion and upheaval. People in the streets 24x7, ceasing all labor and other economic activity, boycotts of all complicit corporate entities, and resistance to ICE, which is rapidly being built into a modern SS, complete with concentration camps, to exert control over political opposition. It's going to take all of us, acting together, to purge these unAmerican seditionists from the nation. It's not too soon to start planning by securing your financial position, stockpiling necessary food and meds, generators, and fuel. Prepare for chaos; one way or another, it's coming. Talk to your family and friends, know your abilities and willingness to fight, make contingency plans. We, the people, are much tougher, and more resilient, than they think, and we can preserve the nation and the Constitution together.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

bro marc andreessen was born in iowa.

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Yankee's avatar

Yes, another asshole facilitating the destruction of the republic to protect his wealth and power. But apparently not the equivalent of white supremacist German/South African freaks who grew up with apartheid, in families that glorified Nazis, and think that killing off the majority of humanity and replacing it with AI is (1) a good idea, and (2) a plan they can implement and survive.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

thiel and musk are much smaller players in the crypto space than andreessen and horowitz, both of whom were born and bred in the USA. thiel actually dumped most of his bitcoin holdings before the FTXplosion.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

This makes perfect sense. DOGE gaining access to every government database, using Palantir’s database and eventually moving it outside the government, and into the private sector.

Grok is being implemented into our Military systems for god knows what!

Zuckerberg and Musk owning most of social media, where more and more people get their news and can be easily manipulated and indoctrinated.

The DOJ and FBI already fully metastasizing into Trump’s personal Gestapo.

And now we find out that these clowns are deliberately trying to destroy the Fed, with Trump threatening to fire the Powell, accelerating each and every day. Coincidence, or are some of Thiel’s people whispering in Trump’s ear?

Excellent newsletter Michael, it’s getting easy to connect the dots. And quite depressing to say the least!

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Jill Kershaw's avatar

Here’s what I gleaned from this excellent article:

The tech bros want to be in power forever. They fear being replaced in wealth and power.

So they obliterate the current system and destroy the dollar. They own the products, create the products, and pay their workers in scrip (crypto) that can only be used at the Company Store. Our lives on a hamster wheel will be all about serving them.

Thank you, Mike.

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eric's avatar

Damn. Mike, your articles always leave me wrecked and furious. And I mean this as a seriously sincere compliment.

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Courtney's avatar

My brother is a crypto bro and after reading this I’m viewing some things he has said in the past in a new light. I think he would be fine with basically murdering people (which is pretty much what this would be if it comes to pass) to advance crypto.

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Nick Mc's avatar

Crypto bros are like fanatical cult members. I’ve lost several seemingly intelligent friends to it. Like your brother, I have no doubt they’d do drastic, unethical things to advance its cause because they’re totally indoctrinated. I ask if they understand how wrong it is and how bad things could get with a financial system regulated only by greed and technology. When it’s clear they have no answers, they fall back to boorish phrases like “Have fun being poor”. You just can’t talk to them. Scary.

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Adele Tobias's avatar

Civilizations don’t collapse because of enemies—they collapse from within, when their center no longer holds. When value is replaced by volatility. When humans are replaced by data points. When the myth of progress forgets its heart.

And this turn toward digital currency—ruled by techno-oligarchs and insulated by algorithms—is not salvation. It is abstraction. And those who are not connected—digitally, economically, or ideologically—will suffer most, as you said. It is the final exclusion masquerading as innovation.

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Ken Rose's avatar

Certain Conservatives and most Libertarians have been morally against government “Fiat” currencies since the removal of the Gold Standard. What they despise is the ability of government to just print money to get out of financial obligations you or I could not. Using inflation to get out of WWII debt and the Marshall Plan are seen as tragedies to them.

They want to limit governmental power but have no problem at all with unlimited private power. That they deem natural.

Trying to figure out Crypto, the best way to understand it, I think, is that it IS Fiat Currency. Private Fiat Currency.

The full faith and credit of the US Government replaced by faith in the Blockchain. No matter what limitations they insist crypto has, the fact is THEY PUT THEM THERE so they can take them away.

The point is that if Government Fiat Currency is replaced by Crypto Fiat Currency it puts all the power of the World’s governments in the hands of the Billionaire Class. Countries will have to ask billionaires what they can spend on. Their populations get no say. Governments could even be broken up like governments used to break up businesses like unethical ones or monopolies.

This is the Utopia people like Thiel and Yarvin want.

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AP's avatar

This also ties with the tech billionaire interest in building island bunkers as of late.

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B. Calbeau's avatar

Thank you for this information, and your moral grounding and concerns.

Did not and could not understand until now. My instincts felt suspicion and I failed at educating myself.

As much as I’ve researched the TechnoBro Utopia planning I neglected this subject. I bet they appreciate the populace being numb.

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Lee Gans's avatar

Imagine if George Soros, Obama, Zohran, literally any liberal billionaire donor, Democrat, leftist was like: we have “to overturn the monetary system of the world. We could never win an election.”

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B. Calbeau's avatar

Who in this country wants to pay taxes to this regime? Would a tax revolt work?

Are they going to lose track of IRS history or use it all against tax payers in someway?

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Stacy DePue's avatar

I have been thinking a lot about this. I don’t want one dollar going to them and I especially don’t want to fund ICE

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B. Calbeau's avatar

Exactly.

Besides a tax revolt, no sporting events, freeze work weeks.❤️☮️

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

not to toot my own horn too much, but i rejoined social media last year specifically to warn about this exact threat: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

i do think your analysis is correct: traditional media etc. elites continue to think this is so outlandish it could never happen even as it is unfolding before our eyes. just look at what Coinbase has been up to this past week: https://techfascism.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-base

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Gary Fissel's avatar

Trump is trying to collapse the value of the dollar and crypto-currency is troublesome.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Read this now and remember it, because at some point in the near future your dollars will be obsolete and worthless. The Crypto Coup is in play.

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