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Lawrence Cleveland's avatar

Great read Sir. These guys need to be reigned in.

There seems to be a software monopoly by Plantir, it is used extensively in DoD.

These tech bros need to be boxed out of DoD, they present an existential threat to our National Security.

Unfortunately they along with the Russians and God knows who else owns our current administration.

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Madeleine Bolger's avatar

Thank you for highlighting Thiel. I’ve been screaming into the void about this guy for years.

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babaganusz's avatar

This person has a grim massive-picture outlook regarding the broligarchy & other bits of the coalition that's increasingly hijacking society.

Warning — they have a habit of establishing a monstrously bleak outlook before the pieces (usually) end on a hopeful note.

The one that got me hooked (the stack is less than 7 months old):

https://open.substack.com/pub/heyslick/p/the-technate-of-north-america?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clhiz

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Karen Gold's avatar

Vance as the Manchurian candidate is super scary.

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Brooke Craig's avatar

Thanks for sharing about Thiel! I’m only seeing a couple of the writers I follow talk about him. But since I first heard about the connection between Thiel and Vance, I also have been wondering about the support of Trump really being about a play to get Vance in due Trump’s health or invoking the 25th. I really appreciate your work!

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Marlon Weems's avatar

Thanks so much @Brooke Craig!

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Francesca Reitano's avatar

The more that is written about Thiel and his web of connections, the better.

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Marcello Mancuso's avatar

At last someone is speaking about Thiel. Thank you @marlonweems !!

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C. Jacobs's avatar

It's all so incestuous at that level of wealth, that I wonder if who serves this role can be determined. You've mentioned so many of these "silent partners" in recent weeks, that it's hard to know who, or which combination is calling the shots, although Thiel is a good bet.

You've written about Thiel, mentioned Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow and others, but you've also mentioned that Thiel and the tech oligarchs are influenced by Yarvin. All of the above are aligned currently with backers of the Heritage Foundation. That think-tank group is essentially backed by a consortium of deep-pocketed corporate funders steering their policy papers. I'll be interested to see how it all plays out and how much of this you got right.

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Jamie Toth's avatar

Incredible insights! I hope more people read this article.

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Marlon Weems's avatar

Share it with your friends!

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Jamie Toth's avatar

Will do. I'm very interested in the conversations this starts. I've long wanted someone to do influence mapping of this administration some justice, especially when it comes to the tech landscape.

When I was in my 20's, I spent a lot of time around people going to Carnegie Mellon, and you couldn't throw a stone without hitting either an ancap or libertarian among them.

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Marlon Weems's avatar

I’m realizing that few people are aware of things like this. I was prompted to write about this after I used the term, “PayPal Mafia” when chatting with a former finance colleague and he had no idea what I was talking about.

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Jamie Toth's avatar

Given the outsized influence they wield, it's pretty important that more people understand where the strings of power ultimately lead. I'm glad to see pieces like this so I can direct people here!

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RLT's avatar

Awesome piece. It’s about time more exposure is given to the tech billionaires. Please think about writing one on Curtis Yarvin next! If irc, his philosophy is the foundation for these tech bro billionaires.

I’ve known of Peter Thiel since I read a Rolling Stone (I think) article about him in the early aughts. His ideology gave me the creeps even then.

Him & his PayPal founders are nothing but racist, wannabe Nazi Afrikaans who are still bitter about South Africans throwing off the yoke of Dutch oppression. Kicked out of the land your racist Dutch ancestors stole? Burned their temple down, indeed. Boofuckyhoo! Cry harder, bitches.

And Thiel needs to stop using the names of LOTR artifacts created by Tolkien as his evil companies’ names! We hates it! Bastard.

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Marlon Weems's avatar

There’s just much material, it’s just difficult to find the time to write about everything!

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Carolyn Nafziger's avatar

Thanks, Marlon, for this very informative post. It's obvious that Vance is waiting in the wings to take over at some time. That's why calls to impeach tifg are counter-productive - even if that were possible, the situation would be even worse. The whole sinister bunch must be forced out by vote.

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Craig St Aubyn's avatar

Would be interested to see if this tech mafia group has a similar ideology to the Christian conservative group also working behind the scenes to forward their seven mountain mandate. Or will they eventually butt heads and implode. See my Religion Division post.

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Alexandra McGary's avatar

Eat the rich, before they grind us into bio-diesel ‼️ Thanks again Marlon!

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Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap's avatar

Needs to be shared ^ everywhere..

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Marlon Weems's avatar

Thank you, @Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap! 🙏🏾

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Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap's avatar

Thank YOU Marlon! We all Must carry the lite to get the Hell outa this trump nightmare! Trump did NOT win! Kamala won, top politician statisticians have the proof, Kamala had 3 &1/2 Million more votes than trump, Elon used his StarLink to switch the votes..

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d a w n's avatar

I think about this article since I first read it. Thank you.

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