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

[applegrove]

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

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.

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

"SNIP............

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.”

He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”

Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald Trump’s vice president. If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror—what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas.

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[not fooled]

1. OK, I'm gobsmacked now.

Just when you think these MFers have bottomed out on creepy, it gets worse.

[applegrove]

2. It makes you wonder about the things they decided

to hide and not put in Project 2025.

[highplainsdem]

3. Earlier thread on Yarvin, from a couple of weeks ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219166458

[applegrove]

5. Thanks. I'll leave mine up for those here today who have not seen it.

[highplainsdem]

6. I wouldn't want you to delete yours - it's a newer article from a different journalist. I just

wanted to link to my earlier thread so people could see that article, too.

Yarvin's on Twitter and has been sniping at Gil Duran, who wrote the article you posted.

RWers don't want these connections and ideas exposed now.

[applegrove]

7. Thank you for your link and coordination. We need to get it all out.

And organize and let everyone know how weird (sick) they are.

[Silver Gaia]

4. Like The Matrix...

only for real.
😬😵😯😱

[Danascot]

8. Well that's just weird.

nt

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Digitize the Poor and Stick Them in the Matrix.

“Cheaper than welfare.” — Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, plus the other greedhead billionaire NAZIs.

[róisín_dubh]

10. Jesus christ

I’m happy I’m in my late 40s and have no kids. I weep for the world my nieces and nephews are inheriting. It’s completely fucked.
The sooner these monsters meet the guillotine-and a dull one at that-, the better. Sorry if that’s harsh, but I happen to be a historian haha

[dalton99a]

11. "Immediately assume absolute power, ignore the courts, coopt Congress"

"And start getting rid of people"

Yarvin's Project 2025 in a nutshell