The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Dec. 14, 2025
Today, #billionaires are still flooding politics with their money and still reaping the benefits, but they won’t stop yapping about it.
#ElonMusk bragged about his support for President #Trump, to whose campaign and allied groups he donated more than $250 million. He loudly attempted to buy votes in #Pennsylvania. Then he leveraged it all into a cruel and chaotic effort to dismantle federal agencies. #MarcAndreessen’s tech-heavy venture capital firm publicly pledged $100 million to target lawmakers who attempt to regulate #ArtificialIntelligence; he then mocked the pope for suggesting some ethical guardrails around the technology. #BillAckman announced that he and his pals were prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat #ZohranMamdani, and urged Mr. Trump to call in the National Guard if that effort failed...
I'm adding the authoritarian stack here to boost it. this is scary. just look at the #antichrist himself, #PeterThiel . We need more network diagrams like this to make it apparent to folks just how embedded these #technofascists are.
#fascism #authoritarian #capitalism #technology #elonmusk #marcandreessen #palantir #davidsacks #palmerluckey #alexkarp #news
Plausible explanation for the hitherto puzzling pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández.
#USPolitics #Honduras #JuanOrlandoHernández #DonaldTrump #Pardon #Próspera #RogerStone #PeterThiel #MarcAndreessen
The SF Standard: Marc Andreessen v. the pope: VC starts meme-war with Leo XIV. “The tech drama of the week is between billionaire Marc Andreessen and … the pope? Yup, the venture capitalist is going head-to-head with heaven’s vassal on earth. Andreessen this week decided to wage meme-fare (read: war but with sassy memes) against Pope Leo XIV.”
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> "Since the government doesn’t seem to be able to legally shut down #Prospera, they’ve resorted to harassing it - especially trying to debank it. This might have worked, if not for the fact that a certain $4 trillion weird Ponzi casino industry has always imagined itself as having a fig-leaf purpose of “what if a utopian libertarian island-city got debanked by a repressive socialist government and could only save itself if there were a entirely new kind of financial infrastructure totally different from the regular one?”; although I imagine they were just as surprised as anyone else when this exact scenario suddenly played out in real life, nobody can deny they were extremely prepared for it."
#Honduras #crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #NetworkState #PeterThiel #marcAndreessen
after murdering a bunch of couriers on some (alleged) drug boats trump now intends to pardon former president of #Honduras Juan Orlando #Hernandez who, in between trafficking at least 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US because he wanted to “shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos”, was the guy who set up the network state city of #Prospera with Peter #Thiel etc. as a “special economic zone”.
> "The zone recently made #Bitcoin legal tender and passed legislation facilitating the issuance of Bitcoin bonds. Próspera’s investors include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen through #Pronomos Capital."
99% chance it’s the Network State/Nerd Reich guys (thiel, andreessen, etc.) up in trump’s ear telling him a cocaine kingpin with whom they founded a fake country deserves a pardon at the same time as they encourage him to murder the poors who actually do the trafficking with the new weapons systems they’re selling him.
#NetworkState #NerdReich #MarcAndreessen #a16z #PeterThiel #crypto #Cryptocurrency #Pardon #pardons #PronomosCapital #a16z
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