Ironically, “Freedom Cities” not free.
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Every time an oppressor wants to enslave people, they use "freedom" as an excuse.
Exhibit A: People's Liberation Army. Its not a conquering, its liberating 🤣
Or Exhibit B: Maga
How do people ever get fooled by this? Its so dumb
Holy shit, it's the Burbclaves from Snow Crash.
Or the corporate entities from Jennifer Government.
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More people need to play BioShock to understand why this is a bad idea.
Or look at the history of company towns
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They keep trying this shit even though it never works. (Like there's literally no pictures of this actually, totally existent place. But it's a paradise. Trust me.)
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Libertarians do not understand how society works.
The baseline, no. The thinkers are just trying to restablish slavery.
Christ, why did we have to get the Shitty Dystopia versions from Snow Crash, Jennifer Government, and every Gibson novel, but none of the cool and fun shit like flying cars, off-planet living, and advanced medical/cybernetic tech.
Gonna have the corpo company town again. Instead of an online walled garden it’ll be a walled city with it’s own currency that gets traded at a steep loss if you try to go anyplace nicer. Keep you in your place.
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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?
"techno-feudalism"
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
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.
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.
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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
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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
This is one of my favorites:
A Libertarian Walks into a Bear
It would be funny if a billionaire shit ass wasn't doing this exact thing on a national level.
They've been trying to do this for years
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.
The double-meaning of the word "startup" might throw people off, but when the other items from the list in the quote are "trials" and "construction" you can imagine they are talking about an action rather than an entity. Here a "reactor startup" would be the process of a reactor going from subcritical, extremely low power state to the point where it can heat water on its own through fission. This is a standard term in the nuclear power industry, and this confusion seems like one more reason reactors should not exist in an unregulated venture capital environment.
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.
Likely still a net improvement over all the fossil fuels they're burning for that shit now.
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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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Do you want Night City? Because this is quite literally how you get Night City.
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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.
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Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.
They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That's like their wet dream.
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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Can't wait to pick out which burbclave to join..
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
Tech bros love to rename terrible shit from the past and call it an invention.
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