The technofascists are in full support mode: Trump’s “Freedom Cities” are weird, but let's go deeper.Peter Thiel & other pro-Trump tech billionaires are OBSESSED with building new corporate-run territories -- “network states.”They want to change how the entire planet is governed. #NetworkState https://t.co/8UIiLVs5DH— gd (@gilduran76) October 3, 2024
I was looking for a tweet on this so I could stay on topic in this thread, but it's really hard to search X without an account. Anyways, tech bros were quietly buying up land on Solano County (generally considered one of the nine Bay Area counties, but it's on the outskirts of the Bay Area, and best known as a place you drive through on your way to Sacramento) to build a tech bro city. Called variously "California Forever" or the "East Solano Plan", they were buying up farmland with the plan to build a tech bro utopia city, but they needed to get a countywide vote to change the rules on development, and when it looked like they did not have the support of the voters, they withdrew their plans. They still own a bunch of land but it is legally farmland, so they'll probably keep trying. It's another example of tech bros trying to redefine cities to suit their corporate interests.
FEMAous lies: Turn that little t-rex hand around.@washingtonpost Fact Checker: "No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did" https://t.co/UBjmwgRlYe https://t.co/75lEmtnaio— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) October 4, 2024
Humans have always tried to dominate the land and make of it what we will. There are scores of planned communities, a la a Reston, Virginia, all over this country. What kept them from being cities in the middle of nowhere was the infrastructure. But now that solar is available on a mass scale, and work and education can be mimicked on line, the costs go way down. And now that we're living in the New Gilded Age, these guys have, literally, money to burn. These tech bros have much to be derisive of, but this isn't it. If I had that kind of money, I think I'd be very interested in trying to plan a 22nd century city.
everything I’ve read about Peter Thiel suggests that he’s not building these for you and me. He’s building them to keep you and me out. That’s the source of my derision.
Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’ https://t.co/prAaVJu78C— Anthony Adragna (@AnthonyAdragna) October 4, 2024
I don’t suppose he was actually making a nuanced point about the allies supporting the USSR and thereby working with Stalin, a nuanced point that this tweet is taking it of context.
This is a lie Trump is posting. Jamie Dimon did not endorse Trump. Trump’s endorsements are so third-rate, he has to make them up. pic.twitter.com/EAglO10ir1— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 4, 2024
The last time a Butler County voter challenged another's registration was in 2015. This cycle the county has already seen about 1,900 challenges. It's part of a large effort in Ohio to challenge voter registrations, and has roots in 2020 election denialismhttps://t.co/aXFoMHwIS6— David DeWitt (@DC_DeWitt) October 4, 2024
“The starlinks” Holy shit. He has no idea what Starlink is.“You know the links. What you call it? The Starlinks. Now I’m not too familiar.” pic.twitter.com/IeeeSM7AKb— Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴☠️ (@jimstewartson) October 4, 2024
South Africa. Come get your boy. pic.twitter.com/Zf6CNRN9O7— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) October 6, 2024
Hopefully there are many more like him: Al worked decades to build the GOP. Was 1st Republican Cuban-American to run for Congress in FL, Chair the Republican Party of FL & ACU. He fled a dictator & values the freedom to vote his conscience. This wasn’t easy. He put #CountryOverParty & just voted for @KamalaHarris.🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/TuZL3YQB0U— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) October 6, 2024
Elon’s mom lives in The Villages? This is illegal and I have little doubt that Elon's mom will probably be responsible for some idiots getting prosecuted for trying this. pic.twitter.com/nISGby5Lnk— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 6, 2024
“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico” pic.twitter.com/IXbXqDijyU— Acyn (@Acyn) October 27, 2024 The overt levels of racism on display in this campaign are surreal. I am not kidding when I say that the far right here has learned to be far more salonfähig than this in public. Not that I doubt that their private rhetoric is still as vile.
The right is starting to get better at comedy and it’s making lefties nervous pic.twitter.com/UHGbasS7CV— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 27, 2024
Yet another poll showing Harris with a massive lead with those who have already voted, a much wider margin than our modeling of party ID shows for the group. It could be that all of these pollsters are just getting overly Dem samples, though the consistency is noteworthy. pic.twitter.com/VLl1Q4wgZq— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 27, 2024
I wonder how much this is a real thing, women telling their husbands they’re for Trump just to avoid an argument. This ad seems to be about Nikki Haley primary voters. Only you need to know who you vote for. Just ask Melania. pic.twitter.com/gdMyXZXYjj— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 28, 2024 and then there’s this 1850963101165982019 is not a valid tweet id
My wife and I finally got around to watching the first season of Severance and boy howdy does that seem relevant to this conversation.