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Trump administration is stripping down the government and selling it to enemy nations and oligarchs so they can run their "Network-States." I don't think spying on an Apple Watch is exactly a priority here.

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Please go on. You’ve made many claims there. Please elaborate.

A slew of people including Musk, Vance, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and a few other VC billionares are trying to break up the US into nation states that they call network-states. Think of Cyberpunk with a heavy dose of Snow Crash. It's a completely authoritarian agenda. While I understand this sounds like conspiracy, Andreessen quite literally has a book called "The Network State" and Yarvin has blogged about this extensively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&feature=youtu.be

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/what-is-the-network-state

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...

https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...

> A slew of people including Musk, Vance, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and a few other VC billionares are trying to break up the US into nation states that they call network-states.

Network states? Like, turning CNN, FOX and MSNBC into actual governments? That might not be such a bad idea after all, given the extent to which society gets divided along ideological lines these days. It might work along the lines of explicit "pillarisation" in the Netherlands.

> Network states? Like, turning CNN, FOX and MSNBC into actual governments?

No, turning Tesla, Meta, and etc into actual governments.

Don't feed trolls! They aren't being serious.

Thanks for the links. I hope my country gets out of this coup.

Thanks. The most important thing is to get the information out there.

And https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

compares the plan with what is currently happening.

ok - that is interesting and detailed but.. the author of that piece, psychologically, is guilty in a similar way that many political people are guilty.. of vilifying the "other" who is unacceptable. This single, telling feature of the storytelling speaks volumes. "But they are so awful!" only adds fuel to the fire. That article is informative but unbalanced itself.

I don't think it needs balance. It is making comparisons between Yarvin's original plan and the actions Musk and Trump administration are taking and how they significantly overlap.

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