r/technology • u/DontFearTheCreaper • 1d ago

Social Media Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-bezos-musk-zuckerberg-b2727147.html
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u/HiiiTriiibe 1d ago

Look into Curtis yarvin, there’s definitely something to be said for JD Vance’s and Thiels love of that man and his ideology, and tearing down the government is literally step one to creating the techno-fascist city-state system yarvin advocates for. These people are a legitimate threat to democracy and have every intention of ending it here

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u/Absolute-Nobody0079 1d ago

That kind of system must be vulnerable to a large scale military invasion...right?

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u/space_monster 1d ago

No, because they're distributed. Well, at least one flavour of techno-libertarianism is virtual cities / states, rather than physical ones.

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u/Absolute-Nobody0079 1d ago

I wonder if modern day Golden Horde is more feasible than ever.