Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”

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Pronomos Capital has raised at least $13.3 million from free-market evangelists including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers. Just don’t ask for details.

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Funded to the tune of $525 million, Praxis aims to “revitalize Western Civilization” through a techno-libertarian city upon a hill

In early 2022, the Trump machine has become a kind of weird regime in exile. Is this strange organism learning? Maybe sort of, though so are its enemies.

A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”

Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug. Ebook links and full chronological archive. An introduction to neoreaction (NRx).

The Extremist Tech Authoritarian Politics of Silicon Valley

This wax-like, toxic substance burns at temperatures high enough to melt metal.

You might be surprised, and a little disheartened, as I am, to look around the world in the early 21st century, and see it, well, giving up on freedom. There’s America, where the GOP is actively…

It might not seem like it, but right about now, the world is experiencing tectonic political shifts. And mostly, they’re not good ones. We’re in the midst of what I’ll call a Great Reversal — and it…

By now, you might have heard what happened. A man broke into her house, tied up her husband, proceeded to beat him with a hammer, shouted “Where’s Nancy?!” Luckily, at that point, the police arrived…

I’m going to use a word I don’t use often, or lightly. Sinister. There’s a thread running through recent events, and it’s a sinister one. That thread goes like this. From Twitter to terrorism, the…

We live in strange and perilous times. As if climate change and mass extinction weren’t enough, they’re accompanied by…the return of fascism to the global stage. Wave after wave of it pulses across…

It’s been a terrible few weeks for the former President of the United States, the Orange Buffoon. So many hammer blows have hit him, it’s hard to keep track. His “organization” — what is this, a…

Take a look at the charts above. I discussed them both recently, but there are charts, and then there are charts. Let’s take the top one — it’s a mega-chart — in a different context. One that goes…

So…what kind of a start is your 2023 off to? If you’re like a lot of people I know, it’s not terrible, it’s not great, it’s just…there. Kind of grinding away in the background. It’s like we’re all…

By now, if you’re a sane and thoughtful person, on the side of democracy, you’re probably a little worried. About a fellow called Ron DeSantis. He’s emerged as the GOP frontrunner for President…

The most successful brand of the 21st century. It’s not Google, Apple, Facebook, or Tesla. It’s not even a country, like South Korea or America, making an historic comeback. It’s fascism. Only we…

It’s sometimes said that people like you and me have a “liberal bias.” As the wicked response goes, “so does reality.” It’s not that I have a problem with conservatism — it’s that what conservatism’s…

By now, you might have heard what happened over the weekend. A speaker at CPAC — the big conservative conference — said: “for the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life…

There’s a question which I keep asking these days. Maybe you do, too. It’s simple enough, and yet it’s surprisingly complicated, strange, and…ugly. Why do they hate us? You know what I mean already…

Luke. Luke! I am your… it was, in one of those great, absurd, funny ironies of history, New Gingrich who said it was finally going too far. Reacting to the new bill in Florida to…

You know a country’s in bad, bad shape when its…sportscasters are on strike…because they think the government’s treading in dangerously fascist waters. That country, ironically, shamefully, enough…

Here’s a funny, dark, absurd juxtaposition that sums up just how much trouble our world is in. Quick, what’s the world’s happiest country? Finland. That research just came out a few days ago. Guess…

Yesterday, suddenly, a development that had many had been dreading. A Trump-appointed judge in Texas blocked women’s access to Mifepristone — a major reproductive health drug — across America…