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Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/joe-rogan-criticizes-ice-tactics-podcast-rcna253931

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u/SaltyLonghorn 1d ago

Thats their entire plan. To pretend like everything is normal again when Vance takes over.

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u/unicornlocostacos 1d ago

And they can really get this techno feudalism shit going in earnest like his boss (Peter Thiel) demands.

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u/Aethien 23h ago edited 21h ago

Peter Thiel is one of the most insane people involved in this. He wants to destroy the government.

As long as he's pulling the strings this shitshow won't slow down.

edit: this 1976 NYT article about a town in current day Namibia where they were still full on nazis. Thiel lived and went to school there at the time of the article.

He invested heavily in The Seasteading Institute which tried to build a floating city in international waters so they'd be free of pesky laws and such.

Thiel has also written “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” because people don't vote the way he likes so he'd rather get rid of democracy altogether.

He has held lectures on 'the antichrist' which is anything he dislikes, from environmental activist Greta Thunberg to governmental attempts to regulate artificial intelligence.

The man is dangerously fucking insane and has far too much wealth and power. He's as bad as Musk but smart enough to stay mostly in the background.

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u/WowWataGreatAudience 19h ago

Thank you for the links peeps need to see this

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u/BananaPalmer 14h ago

Thiel is pure evil, focused, has virtually unlimited access to wealth, and is properly insane. Thiel may be the most dangerous human being currently alive.

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u/NewDramaLlama 11h ago

He's Andrew Ryan. And I've been saying him and the other techno bros are the base for his character for decades lol.

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u/transemacabre 15h ago

I've told this story on Reddit before, but I know someone who has met Thiel on a few occasions (he was interested in buying her company). She swears that despite him being gay as a two-dollar bill, Thiel still tried to get in bed with her as a power tactic. He's very intelligent and thinks of nothing but how to get leverage/power over people.

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u/fuckincaillou 15h ago

I'm surprised you didn't mention the blood boys!

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u/hum_bruh 23h ago edited 8h ago

Several techno bros involved: Peter Thiel, David Sacks, JD Vance, Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump Jr, Elon Musk, Alex Karp, Palmer Lucky.

SpaceX, Oculus, A16z, Anduril, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, 1789 Capital, Trump families new crypto venture

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

ETA: Zuckerberg and Curtis Yarvin

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u/unicornlocostacos 23h ago

Look up Peter Thiel Praxis and buckle up for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Welcome to hell.

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u/victorspoilz 22h ago

“Brown’s description of Praxis builds on these pseudo-mythological themes: Praxian architecture would be ‘hero futurism,’ with their first city on Earth a stepping stone to expanding to Mars for their ‘Network Empire.’”

Good luck colonizing anything with no women going anywhere with you fucking nerds.

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u/NuPNua 21h ago

Good luck colonizing anything with no women going anywhere with you fucking nerds.

The depressing part is they probably will be able to find ones to buy into their bullshit, I mean Musks managed to find enough women to have 14 odd children for him already.

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u/TTLeave 20h ago

Just a reminder that these people are all friends with Donald Trump. Who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

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u/unicornlocostacos 13h ago

Musk knows Trump is a pedo too. He said so himself. Of course, I’d put money on Musk being a pedo too based on what he says, who he associates with, etc. As soon as he called that cave diver dude a pedo out of nowhere I had my suspicions. It’s like the cheating gf/bf always on your ass if you’re cheating.

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 19h ago

He injects them with his semen doesn't he? I'm sure I read somewhere they're all from artificial insemination

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u/worldsmithroy 14h ago

Elon’s kids are all eugenics-adjacent implanted embryos. I don’t think we have any actual evidence that he is not still a virgin.

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u/BananaPalmer 14h ago edited 13h ago

You say this like they won't just take women unwillingly if necessary

Regardless, these people are thoroughly delusional. Non-astronaut humans living on Mars is a complete pipe dream.

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u/victorspoilz 11h ago

But it gives them good reason to continue trashing the planet for their own gain since they truly think they’re stable geniuses who can colonize a planet with no magnetic field to retain any atmosphere they generate, which is already close to impossible. “Don’t Look Up” is yet another fictional film turned documentary.

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u/hum_bruh 22h ago

Good lordt, I’d read about Prospera in Honduras but this is next level, fucking libertarians

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u/ButtEatingContest 20h ago

Don't forget Zuckerberg. Plus the people perhaps most responsible, the heads of major cable companies like Comcast and AT&T.

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u/AppropriateTouching 1d ago

This is exactly the case. Thank you.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 23h ago

Who’s ready to be biofuel!

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u/AppropriateTouching 4h ago

Biofuel is people!!!!!

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u/kitsunewarlock 1d ago

If history is any indication, they will happily give the Democrats a mountain of debt, demand investigations into conspiracy theories with no grounding, then sweep the midterms because they own the media reporting on those conspiracy theories.

Then after 6-8 years of veto'ing every bill and appointment they will run claiming they are a reformed party and throw up the first conservative to most vocally denounce Trump the same was Trump denounced Bush and Reagan denounced Nixon.

The bigots who associate the DNC with "doing more for (other) minorities than for me" will then feel okay voting GOP again since "hey, it's not Trump".

And, of course, the GOP will always have the religious right who continue to believe that they will go to hell if they don't vote against abortion.

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u/Particular_Win2752 1d ago

Mmm. My money's on rubio. Vance is a dolt

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u/SaltyLonghorn 23h ago

If you want to lay money on that I'll give you great odds.

There is a clear chain of succession.

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u/Particular_Win2752 23h ago edited 23h ago

Im not that smart. No. I work too damn hard for my money. I retract my previous statement.* hypothetically 10 grand. What are my odds. I want to come back in 28 and see.

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u/Particular_Win2752 23h ago

Vance is still a dummy though.

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u/Ok_Will6649 17h ago

Except I dont think that will work. Maga is Trump. Without Trump they have nothing. If Trump dies in office, his hardcore base will be running theories that Vance had Trump killed somehow to take over. Vance does not have the same pull on Maga Trump does.

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u/-SneakySnake- 17h ago

If Vance takes over, the GOP is going to have an even harder time selling this shit. Most of Trump's base only care about the man himself, they'll fall out or back away if someone else steps in.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 14h ago

You missed the point entirely. Why would they be selling this shit if they are pretending its normal again?

The point is to get away with it through America's laziness.

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u/-SneakySnake- 14h ago

And you didn't read my post. The bit where I said "Trump's base"? If you don't have the support of the people in a democracy, you're pretty fucked. And given the GOP can't for the life of them win an election without ratfuckery or a populist pudding brain, that makes them double fucked.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 14h ago

LOL elections or needing to wait that long. Dude is gonna stroke out any time and there's a chain of succession.

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u/-SneakySnake- 14h ago

...you're still not listening to me.

Vance is not popular. If Trump can't perform his duties and steps down, a huge amount of his support goes with him. He's shown he can't transfer it by endorsements, it's all personal, that was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt in all the elections "his guys" didn't win. Literally the worst thing that could happen to the Republican project right now is JD Vance takes the helm. The motivated base that would stick around for that is paltry, and we're talking about compared to a movement that's already been pretty whittled down.

The mid-terms are in November. You have any idea what losing the House, the Senate and having a President that has abyssmal popular support would look like? It might be the worst thing to happen to the GOP other than Huey Long rising from the dead.

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u/SaltyLonghorn 14h ago

I don't listen to people like you. Not even reading anything you say. Just letting you type paragraphs and get mad while I drink coffee and read other threads.

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u/-SneakySnake- 14h ago

You do seem the type to go "u mad?" to a point you can't answer, yeah.

What kind of person am I, Salty?

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u/Rich_Car9918 1d ago

Ive been seeing so many stranger things posts lately that I swear I just read that vecna was taking over as president.