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I think it’s hilarious that they are so dumb that a satire movie like RoboCop is regarded as blueprint for the future. How cartoonishly evil do they have to be?
They've been trying to do this for years
These tech libertarians never stop trying to make their own company towns.
Here was a recent failed attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto
Also this piece never gets old. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
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In September of last year, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a two part series on right wing blogger Curtis Yarvin, his connections to Peter Theil, and his influence on JD Vance. I highly recommend these episodes for anyone who wants to know where this is all headed.
Yarvin has, for years, pushed the notion of RAGE (retire all government employees), and his dark enlightenment movement centers on dismantling democracy and installing a neo-feudalistic system of government in which oligarchs rule as kings.
This is not some crazy new proposal that will be ignored by the people in power. This is the endgame. The oligarchs and right wing fascists Trump has surrounded himself with have been pushing this for years, just waiting for their moment.
If you don't think this is a big deal, then you probably won't realize until it's too late.
God Bless Robert Evans
Thank goodness we had a corporate media that not also did nothing to instruct on this, but played lots of stupid bothsiderist games for the horse race.
Not to mention lots of so-called leftists telling Americans to either sit out or do a protest vote because something something Gaza, BidenSoOld and KamalaSameAsBiden.
Yeah I got called a bootlicker because of saying that business as usual was far better than the unmitigated disaster we are facing now. I hate being proven right.
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If you don't think this is a big deal, then you probably won't realize until it's too late.
American history in one sentence.
It's chilling that this article is from October and basically lays out how the overthrow of democracy would take place - exactly what's been happening since then.
The speed at which we're descending into the dark enlightenment period is beyond alarming.
Those already have a name - company town.
They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
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America is truly going back to its roots. American towns, ethnic cleansing of native populations, all that's missing is chattel slavery (of course we still got that modern slavery). This crumbling empire deserves to collapse, and collapse quickly
They didn't just fail on their own. They were very successful until the labor movement decided to meet violence with violence.
Now that's a tradition I wouldn't mind we go back to, seems like the only way we ever got labor protections in this country
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Yay! Corporate towns! I look forward to be paid in company script!
Scrip, no t, but there are positive pro community versions of this where cities use their own as a way of circulating money within the local economy.
I agree, it's a novel approach for small towns that are trying to rebuild or boost their local economy.
We can all agree that the Corporate scrip is just a fancy of screwing workers.
A city run by a corporation is the opposite of a "freedom city"
It's freedom from government regulations, many of which stem from the last time we let companies set up their own towns. What could possibly go wrong?
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Yes, but it does follow republican naming convention. Right to work states are anything but, for example.
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According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Yes because the first thing I think needs regulations is fucking nuclear power!
If anyone reads that and goes “hell yea”…
Also what the fuck is a “nuclear reactor startup”?!? God, tech bros really take a whole bunch of privilege and advantage and just throw it all away to be dumber than anyone could have thought possible.
It's like a regular nuclear reactor, except it's run by people who don't know anything about nuclear reactors, the waste is dumped wherever without consequence, and the power output is only used to run an AI and mine cryptos.
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The "move fast and break things" mantra of silicon valley is bad enough when you aren't talking about breaking a goddamn nuclear reactor.
Sounds too much like Vault-Tec for my tastes.
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“ You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store “
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Can't wait to pick out which burbclave to join..
Do you want Night City? Because this is quite literally how you get Night City.
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Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.
I think Musk has talked about the game, and obviously every message was completely lost on him and his main takeaway was that "Arasaka is cool. I want to be that."
That is exactly what they want.
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They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That's like their wet dream.
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This is the dumbest branding exercise ever. There are no additional "freedoms" that you can get in a corporate-run city versus a regular city; except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.
If the future that Curtis Yarvin and his type envision starts to shape up, we're gonna need to go full, 100% anti-corporation to push back.
except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.
That is exactly the kind of freedom they are looking for, and don't underestimate the psychology there - it feels like freedom to them, the kind of freedom that allows for injustices to prevail. I'm reminded of an anecdote of Ẑiẑek, talking to a bunch of fascists in former Yugoslavia, where they in no uncertain terms revealed, that it had been tyranny to them to not be able to be violent, rape, plunder, etc. and that the chaos of the breakup had been a liberatory event for them, psychologically.
Never assume "freedom" is something, that opposing classes and groups in general agree upon when it comes to its definition.
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Tech bros love to rename terrible shit from the past and call it an invention.
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I actually like this idea. So long as the CEOs are required to live in the town as well a minimum of 300 days out of the year.
Because working in an office is worth the collaboration.
And I like knowing where the CEOs are so that checks instance name I can play Minecraft with them in person. I get so much more enjoyment playing Minecraft in person and would like to make sure the latency is really low.
It would never happen that way.
By the way, we used to do this. You can read all about it. It's very very bad.
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