GOP actions remind me how an ex-employee described Robert Mercer to @JaneMayerNYer
He believes humans have no inherent value other than how much money they make. A cat has value because it provides pleasure to humans. Someone on welfare has negative value
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
He believes humans have no inherent value other than how much money they make. A cat has value because it provides pleasure to humans. Someone on welfare has negative value
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
Cambridge Analytica founder Robert Mercer, whose co Renaissance Tech owes $7+ billion in taxes thinks:
“society is upside down—that government helps the weak people get strong, and makes the strong people weak by taking their money away, through taxes.”
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
“society is upside down—that government helps the weak people get strong, and makes the strong people weak by taking their money away, through taxes.”
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
Another former high-level Renaissance employee said about Robert Mercer:
“Bob thinks the less government the better. He’s happy if people don’t trust the government. And if the President’s a bozo? He’s fine with that. He wants it to all fall down.”
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
“Bob thinks the less government the better. He’s happy if people don’t trust the government. And if the President’s a bozo? He’s fine with that. He wants it to all fall down.”
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
One of Trump's largest funders in 2016, Robert Mercer has started donating to Trump 2020 with a $355K check to the Trump Victory committee
Some of the recent anti-quarantine protests are backed by an initiative called Convention of States, which was set up in 2015 with financial backing by Robert Mercer and others
This important & terrifying article describes how tech/big data billionaire colleague of Mercer, Peter Thiel, was influenced by William Rees-Mogg's book The Sovereign Individual which describes how the “cognitive elite” will rise to power and influence
Thiel is inspired by Mogg's The Sovereign Individual which describes:
A cognitive elite rising to power and influence commanding great resources who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends
theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/…
A cognitive elite rising to power and influence commanding great resources who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends
theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/…
These are dystopian times, as many in the Trump admin and GOP push policies that value some lives above others, they are backed by money & influence from people like Mercer & Thiel who have scary views on centralizing power among wealthy cognitive elite
