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[–] tabarnaski -2 points 6 days ago (16 children)

So what happens if Zelensky sides with Europe on this one? How does the US apply its peace plan if it's been negotiated solely with Russia? The only way I see this working is the US sending troops to fight along with Russia...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

So what happens if Zelensky sides with Europe on this one?

  1. Does Europe even have a unified position on which to side?
  2. Maybe things changed overnight, but last I heard Ukraine will not be part of the peace talks either.

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The only way I see this working is the US sending troops to fight along with Russia…

wat

[–] tabarnaski 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right now I can't find any reason to exclude this possibility honestly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can only imagine that years of nonstop BlueAnon conspiracy propaganda brought you to imagine it as a possibility.

[–] tabarnaski 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If 3 years ago someone told you that Trump would give Elon Musk the mandate to dismantle the US government and RFK would be secretary of health, you would have called him a lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I couldn’t have seen the RFK one coming, but I’ve been following the dark enlightenment fascist tech oligarchs and their theorists for over a decade. They’ve had a vision for the future and plans to execute it for years. It wasn’t even secret. The tech oligarchs at Trump’s inauguration who bought this election have an over one trillion dollar net worth.

Silicon Valley's Playbook and the AI Coup

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

The Point: In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO” who was not Trump and laid out a playbook for how it might work. Elon Musk is following it.

The Back Story: In 2012, Curtis Yarvin — Peter Thiel’s “house philosopher”—called for something he dubbed RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. The idea: Take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists who would answer to a CEO-type leader Yarvin likened to a dictator.

“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia,” he said.

Yarvin, a software programmer, framed this as a “reboot” of government.

Elon Musk’s DOGE is just a rebranded version of RAGE. He demands mass resignations, locks career employees out of their offices, threatens to delete entire departments, and seizes total control of sensitive government systems and programs. DOGE = RAGE, masked in the bland language of “efficiency.”

[–] tabarnaski 3 points 6 days ago

Interesting read, thanks!

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