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3/ This puts into greater context why Musk has been so politically active and not actually doing the work required to go to Mars. The dismantling of the US government and the march towards Fascism (not just in the US but around the world), fits with their world view that only they should and can make decisions.

Elon made this clear back in 2024

huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-a

HuffPost · Elon Musk Amplifies Bizarre Post Suggesting 'High Status Males' Should Run GovernmentBy Marco Margaritoff
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2/ These billionaires do see themselves as above/different than everyone else and that their wealth and power is just further proof of their innate superiority. They consider themselves as the next evolution in humanity.

Remember this is the same Peter Thiel that gave Mark Zuckerberg seed money to start Facebook, joined up with Elon to form Paypal and produced JD Vance as VPOTUS.

1/ There is a lot to unpack in this snippet of a Peter Thiel interview. Firstly, when Thiel mentions that he doesn't think Elon believes in going to mars anymore, he refers to Mars not as a "silly science tech project, but as a political project".

That tells me that for this entire time, this mars "project" was never really technical or scientific, but all about creating a new society made in their own (self) image.

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#PeterThiel #Palantir #RobertReich

"Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.

Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.

A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans.

And a fourth circle around the parts of Silicon Valley dedicated to turning the US away from a democracy into a dictatorship led by tech bros.

Where do the four circles intersect?
Protesters at Palantir’s New York City office.
Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin
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At a corporation called Palantir Technologies and a man named Peter Thiel."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to AmericansBy Robert Reich

Ich habe diese Doku eben zum dritten Mal gesehen. Jedes Mal habe ich etwas Neues gelernt. Lasst euch nicht von dem T-Wort im Titel abschrecken.

Hauptsächlich geht es um die Sponsoren und Einflüsterer des Trampels. Das ZDF hat das journalistische Schwergewicht Claus Kleber losgeschickt, und er hat Interviews mit Leuten bekommen, die sonst nicht oft mit Journalist:innen reden. Manche von ihnen entlarven sich selbst als extreme Menschenfeinde.

Laut Wikipedia ist »Paypal-Mafia« eine scherzhafte Bezeichnung. Diese Doku stellt klar: Das ist eine richtige Mafia – wahrscheinlich gefährlicher als alle anderen – und Peter Thiel ist ihr Don.

Deutlich wird auch die zentrale Rolle von Palantir bei der Abschaffung der Demokratie. Palantir ist nicht nur eine Softwarefirma, sondern der zentrale Überwachungs- und Repressionsapparat schlechthin. Wer Palantir die Tür öffnet, muss bekämpft und bestraft werden. Noch haben wir die Wahl. In Hessen, NRW und Bayern könnte es schon zu spät sein – da durfte sich Palantir schon in die Polizeisysteme einnisten.

Stream: zdf.de/video/dokus/zdfzeit-106

Download: nrodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/none/z

Hintergrund:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal-M
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

UPDATE: Aktuell plant die Landesregierung von BaWü, ihre Polizei mit Palantir #Gotham zu verkuppeln: swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

ZDFTrumps Strategie wirkt: Tech-Eliten und Desinformation bedrohen die Demokratie.Die Doku über Trump und das Silicon Valley zeigt: Desinformation lähmt die Medien - mächtige Kräfte treiben die USA in eine bedrohliche neue Welt.
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The democrats are a center-right party - you can see what they're doing to Mamdani simply because he has the gall to be an actual opposition candidate. The democrats are NOT going to materially oppose the fascism of MAGA.

I doubt many people want to hear this, but the USA probably does actually need a proper communist party, and it needs to work with existing trade unions as well as help organize and improve the lives of enormous numbers of precarious / gig / contract workers.

Defeating this wave of fascism will probably also require other measures, but coordinated solidarity and general strikes have historically been fairly effective tools against the consolidation of fascist power. For a lot of reasons, I am pretty pessimistic about the ability of scrappy local antifascist organizing to accomplish this.

infosec.exchange/@risibledog/1

Infosec ExchangeArdy’s (@risibledog@infosec.exchange)During Trump 1, plucky / scrappy antifascist activism was reasonably effective; but that was before a critical mass of industry & oligarchs threw their lot in w the MAGA movement (including its worst, most explicitly fascist /nazified elements). I do actually think that changes things pretty significantly, even without the purges & outright cronyism entailed by Project 2025.
#uspol#maga#fascism

i guess "god's wrath will throw fire upon the sodomites" is what passes for a #libertarian take in 2025, because this is one of the main guys trying to build the #NetworkState.

(he's the CEO of #Praxis, "the world's first digital nation" that's funded by a lot of the crypto bros including Peter Thiel, #Balaji, Joe Lonsdale, the #Winklevoss twins, #Paradigm (big crypto fund), a #Worldcoin guy, and a bunch of others). cc: @gilduran.com @gilduran

* the tweet: x.com/drydenwtbrown/status/193
* more on Dryden Brown: motherjones.com/politics/2023/

#pride#lgbt#Thiel