I find it funny how bad guys in fiction openly expresses that they’re in the dark side. That’s so comical it can’t happen in reality. Right?

Nah, this guy is embracing ”Dark Enlightenment” as his core philosophy.

“He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[3][18] He has argued that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people,[18] and opposes U.S. civil rights programs.[19]”

holy fucking hell

Behold, the master race

What a definitive neckbeard good LORD.

They were more numerous and loud when they were largely irrelevant.

But the times were nice, yes.

But - I've looked for Urbit and it's interesting. It's very close to what I'd consider useful.

IMHO a p2p system of the future should work as one user group being one democratically controlled system (like OS with its resources and entities) with computation and storage distributed between member nodes. The reason I'm not too interested in that idea is that it's about global Internet and global availability. Today delay-tolerant offline-enabled applications seem more historically relevant.

ok I'm going to TRY to explain his thinking but I'm likely going to come off as racist trying to explain it.

What he's saying is there are those who earned their wealth via hard work and all that other bullshit and others that just got it handed to them or give off the impression that they're insanely wealthy when "they're not".

this is what he likely means when he says "n-word rich". Because this morons impression of wealth in the Black community is via watching music videos and watching reality TV. He's watched way too many youtube vids about such and such Black music artist or athlete who wears all this "bling" has all these cars and a huge mansion with nothing in it but meanwhile said person is broke. that's what he means by "n-word rich".

he could have just said "The problem is the majority of billionaires aren't actually billionaires. They just think they are."

No idea. I do think billionaires are a serious problem and shouldn't be allowed. Dont care how many business they start. They have the power to buy elections and play games with our entire world so fuck em.

Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.

Success is awarded to the confident. You can be an absolute weird idiot and still, in the right circumstances, get massive success just because people assume there's a reason you seem so confident, and who are they to second guess that confidence?

I think a part of it is you have to be weird to want to chase power. Normal people aren't thinking 24/7 about how they can leap frog their way into power

Yeah, why can't they just be a weirdo freak (celebratory) like the rest of us anarchists?

Then they decide to get makeovers or permanent eyeliner like that's supposed to make up for all the other weird shit?

Start looking up techno feudalism

Him and thiel ...they want to end the United States and break it into company run states with no rules

I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is.

Same. Same. I'm feeling like I must live in a bubble (nobody around me is like that) and also that it was also always there, they're just more comfortable taking their masks off right now. It's depressing.

On the flip side though the people I have around me are mostly family and my kids. I have zero social time beyond that at the moment. Two of my kids besties are not white so I'm at least absolutely sure I'm raising my kids to not be racist pieces of shit. It's something.

I genuinely expected that tweet to be a "you had me in the first half". Like the naggers scene in south park. Fuck that guy. Absolute filth.

He was a cartoon villain even to the people who love him now before 2015. Then he was mean to the people they hated, and dignified their basest impulses. After that, they'd follow him to the gates of hell.

Is that real?! I remember them poking fun at Trump now and again as he was a national laughing stock.

I'm pretty sure he also was the inspiration for more than one Captain Planet villain.