Sunday, July 28, 2024

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

Gil Duran: Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator's benefactor. But they're both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

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... In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed "not productive": "convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses."

Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was "just kidding." But then he continued, "The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-28 01:11 PM

This guy's mind is a combination of the Twilight Zone and Star Wars gone horribly wrong!

#2 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-07-28 02:20 PM

Wackos all.

#3 | Posted by cbob at 2024-07-28 05:09 PM

The GOP and the oligarchs see us as their food.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-28 05:40 PM

"Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide."

That's rich...

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-07-29 07:47 AM

Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel may have helped save this country from being taken over by a criminal cabal, by foisting on a dotard perhaps the worst running mate that could have been selected. Sarah! Palin would now appear to be a world-class diplomat and scholar compared to Vance. Kamala will select a VP candidate designed to lay waste to this couch-humper in stature, bearing and debate...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2024-07-29 09:23 AM

A fraud picked a fraud as VP.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-29 10:47 AM

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