The Nerd Reich

Perhaps a link to the author's website and podcast would be more appropriate? https://www.thenerdreich.com/

> Hey, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, was selling out all your principles worth it? I don't think they have sold out their principles. These are their principles. Thiel thinks democracy and freedom are incompatible. Thiel thinks women getting the vote was bad. Thiel's ambition is to "escape" democracy by seasteading or by building "freedom cities" or "network states": https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertar… https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-steve-ban… https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and-the-netwo… It's a juvenile perspective. It's John Galt cosplay. They think they will build a utopia. In reality what they're proposing is garden variety authoritarianism.

There are a couple goals here. They would like to tank US economy so oligarchs can buy it for pennies on the dollar. Oligarchs like Elon and Thiel want to own their own cities called Network States. You can find more details about that here https://www.thenerdreich.com/ Trump is owned by Russia and China so turning America away from Europe weakens them. Like Zelenskyy says, Russia is likely going to attack NATO within the next couple years so breaking them away from America takes away a very powerful ally. Europe likes to twiddle their thumbs so he is betting that they won't get their shit together and odds are he is right. The EU moves slowly and is very nonsensical. The real play that not even Trump sees coming is putting JD Vance behind the desk. Elon and the rest of the billionaire class are just using Trump to set the table for Vance. Once that happens we are all truly fucked.

This is just a link to the following article https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right… It is not written by jwz.

Background: 1. Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking' Republicans to Control Entire US Government [0] > A document [1] (33 page pdf. I checked the link), authored by an anonymous group of whistleblowers accuses Elon Musk of attempting to spearhead a private hostile takeover of the US Government on behalf of an extremist anti-democracy philosophy known as the ‘neo-reactionary’ movement, by effectively hijacking the Republican Party. Snip > The group, who are withholding their identity for fears of being targeted, includes former Silicon Valley and US technology leaders. They describe themselves as former followers of the neo-reactionary movement, also known as the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ – a burgeoning Internet philosophy which seeks to abolish the drive for greater equality and the very existence of democracy itself. > The memo describes Elon Musk, the eponymous billionaire CEO of Tesla – now a US Government official in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – as attempting to exploit his position in the Trump administration to exert unilateral control of the entire US federal Government. It says that this is happening at the expense of both Donald Trump and the Republican Party. > “Elon Musk’s unchecked consolidation of power over government infrastructure, financial systems, AI governance, and digital media does not serve the interests of the Trump administration or the broader conservative movement”, warns the memorandum. “While…

I'm not sure it's that linear https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-comes-for-venezuela/

I agree they were not masked for people who can see through the masks, but the abstractness of their argument style gave them a level of plausible deniability that you just don't see anymore. For example, whereas before they would express their racism by pointing to literature like "The Bell Curve", now they just say stuff like this: https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvins-racist-slurs-havent-scared…

The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists" So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced. (1) https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/

And https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/ compares the plan with what is currently happening.

A bunch of Network states run by libertarians with blackjack and bitcoin. https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and-the-netwo… Wonder how long they'd last if Greenland, Panama and Gaza are up for grabs by non-network states though.

This will sound like a conspiracy theory, but this is the playbook of Curtis Yarvin, specifically the "RAGE" step - Retire All Government Employees. Some references: Watch the whole video (posted months ago predicting all these actions), but here is the relevant section: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?t=1201 NYT interview: https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000009910862/curtis-yarvin-s… Gil Duran did a lot of the reporting on this. https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right…

Or just go here: https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right…

It’s entirely a link to this article, so head right there: https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right…

'the hell is a website called "The Nerd Reich"!? Edit: per https://www.thenerdreich.com/into-the-parallel-mirror/ > My goal in starting this chain of essays is to expose and highlight the propaganda tactics and strategies at work in Bay Area politics in 2024. We are witnessing a big shift as tech billionaires make a push to buy local power, create polarization and moral panic, and push the traditionally liberal/progressive Bay Area toward Republican-style policies. > As a journalist and writer, I analyze the underlying tactics and strategies of political messages and campaigns. I spent most of my career in politics, working as a top communications strategist for people like Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris and Antonio Villaraigosa. When I write about politics, I do it as someone with "an insider's knowledge but an outsider's mind." (To steal a phrase from Brown.) So I guess the name is calling out the tactics used by certain tech billionaires?