Proof here: https://48hills.org/2024/05/the-alarming-agenda-of-the-big-m...
Just in case you're not aware, Garry Tan, then author of TFA, is YCombinator's current CEO and someone who, while cosplaying as a "moderate", at least subscribes to right-wing ideas (some of them pretty fringe, read the article in another comment).
Scary times. It's like we are suddenly surrounded by sociopathic tech entrepreneurs CEOs.
They became confident enough in their plan to take their masks off. And they are almost definitely collaborating with the very old circles of power who have been poisoning and enslaving people for centuries.
If these are the people making the decisions (and don't even get me started on the 'technical' folks at a16z...), the cluely-esque enshittification of VC over the last few years makes A LOT of sense.