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Galt’s Gulch
Elon Musk did an interview recently where he moaned about not being able to go the the store or do normal things because he’s worried about security in the wake of the Charlie Kirks assassination and the murder of the … Continue reading
Posted in propaganda, feral elite, neoliberalism
Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, oligarchs, Survival of the Richest
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Oligarchy
The problem with oligarchy is the capriciousness. Under a system of laws, there’s a known quality of acceptable behavior, while with oligarchy everything can change in an instant, as demonstrated with the Trump/Musk dust-up. The problem with Musk is not … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Alex Karp, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, neoliberalism, Palantir, Wall Street
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The Yeltsin Years
I’ve recently discovered that the DOGE-bags have a plan, and it’s not simply to move fast and break things. It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, and “seeks to implement authoritarianism with a combination of elite technocrats (as in the IT type, … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Mangione Moment
How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Luigi Mangione, second Gilded Age
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Techno-Feudalism
The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ian Welsh, neoliberalism, propaganda, Ukraine
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Pay the Toll
We have a tollbooth economy, where necessary components of modern life–education, healthcare, transportation and communication–have become prohibitively expensive, in the process erecting barriers to economic participation. A major feature of the tollbooth economy is the increasing weight of rentier activities … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, infrastructure spending, Simon Patten
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Concrete material benefits
The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism
Tagged Donald Trump, Elon Musk, H-1B, neoliberalism, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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High on your own supply
Reality consists of the stories we tell each other. While this is not a new observation it goes a long way towards explaining the behavior of our feral elite who have bought into their own narrative to such a large … Continue reading
Posted in deep state, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton, Russia, Russia-gate, Twitter
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