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It's not a coincidence that the crazies really came out of the woodwork halfway through Obama's second term, and that finance/big business felt emboldened because they'd been rescued and that the tech guys made themselves into celebrities to be worshipped and followed bad confluence of events

lets have a healthy shoutout Fuck You to Andreesson and Thiel

Far longer ago than that. Read "Democracy In Chains" by Nancy MacLean.

Bannon has spent decades beseeching people to read an obscure book that preaches that Indian people are subhumans who eat literal shit and should be rounded up in cages.

The only republicans on this platform are bots. We are constantly talking to the choir on here.

I hope it makes them whimper in fear even a little bit how much the public resents them and how many of us would gladly see them mussolini'd lol

And the media owners are complicit, which is a huge reason why no one took the warnings seriously

Jeez, consolidating power like you know who. Are they so big as to negate boycott, national strike approach?

They made an alliance with the Christian fundamentalists & Catholic far right.

Can you speak to whether this slide into feudalism is an attack on market economies, an attack on capitalism, and/or other systems we take for granted?

Tim Cook puzzles me. Does he not realize that as an openly gay man that the fascist world is not for him or anyone like him?

The thing that tipped me off were those weird articles on "bossism" a few years ago, like it was a new idea to treat employees as serfs. I never had an idealistic view, but I thought they at least believed in the marketplace. As soon as workers exert market pressure, though, it's back to feudalism.

Thank you. I am a woman in a STEM field and have been tech-bro-adjacent much of my life. I took classes with people like this, went to conferences with them. It has been glaringly obvious to me for decades. Even many who aren't billionaires foster the ideas in your thread.

it IS a conspiracy. it’s just one that is out in the open rather than hidden and/or imaginary.

Yeah. This is sadly true. When Jeff Lawson was hounded out of Twilio, that was a big turning point for me (I know, that's maybe not as Big Tech as most people focus on, but Jeff's a real one and is now off owning The Onion and building clean energy, so...).

And they will kill, just to make an example so that others don't get too frisky - look at Jason Arday, driven to suicide by the relentless right-wing media in the UK, which picked up on a story written by a guy who has traceable connections to Thiel.

It really clicked for me when I saw somebody write that "fascism is capitalism in decline." They bleed the system so dry that it's falling apart so they use the authoritarian power of the state to prop itself up and keep the profits coming.

Apropos. My first published work on this topic was in 1999. johnsundman.substack.com/p/i-created-...

It is a conspiracy, just not one they're hiding.

A lot like the Business Plot in the 1930s allthatsinteresting.com/the-business...

This is all correct and useful afaict, except that what you describe is - quite literally - a conspiracy

I'm embarrassed today to be part of this industry. Once upon a time, I actually believed in tech as a tool for good.

Yep. Here’s 8 of them. omarchy.org/news/2026/08...

Frank Herbert warned us of this in Dune.

Musk, Thiel, Yarvin Global economic control. Meta, Amazon, Google all the rest? See ya.

I still feel crazy but thanks for the confirmation of my formerly paranoid fears.

Yet more shades of the period in-between the World Wars. Our own little Fords and Business Plotters, with none of the subtlety.

Don't get me started about what was happening to women in the tech industry at that time. Couldn't even get the "good" men to admit what was going on right under their noses. Just. Wouldn't. Register. Concluded it wasn't important. Very frustrating. And yes, the minority women suffered the most.

Welp I see I have used up my weekly allotment of social media time by 7:30 am, off to go have a panic attack now.

The Nerd Reich.

Having been in the room among psychopaths (young & dumb & unknowing) as early as 2003, especially in 2007-2012, I can confirm the 'giant, bubbling cauldron of doom' that you speak of & it is neither joke, nor fiction, & indeed, a truth ppl refuse to hear or see or name its consuming presence...

the mind-bending part for me is it doesn’t seem like the utopian rhetoric has shifted that much from 20 years ago, but the political orientation seems to have done nearly a complete 180

Conspiracy does not mean false or absurd. A conspiracy is when one or more people work together (conspire) to commit a crime. So absolutely it was a conspiracy.

I wrote about Peter Thiel and Elon Musk for SPLC in 2012, but I didn’t take them seriously enough. They weren’t household names and I underestimated and flat-out lacked the imagination to consider the possibility of how things are now.

I felt so alone. I posted some early docs on the subject. It’s nearly complete and people still tell me I’m crazy.

Those with influence and reach who SHOULD have been raising alarms years earlier (Biden) waited until it was already too late. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/gi...

‼️‼️‼️ Yup and the disabled

I'm only here because the only way to make things better is by fighting to make it better, but my eye is on that slowly closing door...

Can you give an example of a tech CEO who was pushed out over this?

#boom