😳 Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen is reportedly getting involved w/ DOGE. He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by Balaji Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries w/in existing states via the creation of “parallel institutions” like X. Listen. 1/
4/ Balaji is a former general partner of Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Sr…
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7/ Some stuff on Marc Andreessen
8/ “Why do Trump. Thiel & Andreessen want to build new cities?” The Network State movement “calls for the creation of private cities ruled by non-democratic tech governments. ‘Freedom Cities’ seems like a slight Republican rebranding of the concept. The adoption of the idea suggests that Trump's team – which announced the plan last year – has been searching for ways to align with Weird Tech for quite some time.” By @gilduran76 thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-f…
9/ “To recap: The Network State cult calls for the creation of new tech-controlled sovereign cities that would essentially act as miniature countries. These independent territories can be created in one of two ways.”
10/ “The first is called Voice. This route entails using the political system to take over existing city governments through elections. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is currently trying the "voice" method in San Francisco, where he is spearheading a tech-funded campaign to capture control of City Hall. (How do I know this is a Network State project? Because Tan has described his project as such.)”
11/ “The second method is called Exit. The "exit" method involves finding a bare piece of land that can be built up into a new tech city, ideally with tax breaks or other exemptions from ‘host governments.’” thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-f…
12/ “Próspera, on the island of Roatan in Honduras, is an example of this: a tech-run Special Economic Zone where certain rules don't apply. Próspera has become a mecca for unregulated gene therapy experiments.”
13/ “And then there's our local version: California Forever. This proposed tech city in Solano County was supposed to go to voters for approval on November's ballot, but it has been delayed due to massive community opposition.
14/ “California Forever denies being a Network State project, but Andreessen is one of its investors. [Para] In addition, Balaji Srinivasan … has strongly suggested that California Forever is a Network State project…”
16/ “This is an important detail because Andreessen, Srinivasan [Balaji] and Thiel are working closely together to make the Network State a reality ***
These three even have an entire company [Pronomos VC] dedicated to building such cities around the world.” thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-f…
17/ Billionaire Marc Andreessen is “reportedly getting involved in DOGE” 11/25/24 fortune.com/2024/11/25/bil…
18/ Balaji wrote the book, The Network State: How to Build a Country.
19/ As u can see, Marc Andreessen blurbed it.
20/ As far as I can tell, @gilduran76 has done most of the heavy lifting when it comes to reporting on this “Network Statement”movement. The MSM has largely ignored it, as per usual.
@gilduran76 23/ Prospera in the Honduras is an apparent “Network State” endeavor. It is financed by Pronomos Capital (Thiel, Andreessen, & Balaji) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3s…
@gilduran76 24/ “Próspera Demands Honduras Pay $11 Billion for Outlawing Privately Run City” 7/25/23 corpwatch.org/article/prospe…
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This cautionary post is newly relevant in that some of Trump’s Tech Bros ditched Biden/Harris over plans to regulate AI. Significantly, Trump has named Jacob Helberg—an advisor to Palantir’s CEO— as his Undersecretary of State for economic growth, energy, & the environment. 1/
3/ “Helberg has already started drafting an executive order for a future Trump administration that would strip away … Biden’s AI regulations (limited as they may be).”
Tech billionaire Mark Andreessen is invested in Prospera, a for profit “startup up city” in Honduras. He’s now advising DOGE & hanging with Trump who has embraced the idea “freedom cities.” Here’s how things turned out in Honduras…. 1/ #NetworkStates insideclimatenews.org/news/15092024/…
Tech billionaire Mark Andreessen is invested in Prospera, a “for profit” startup up city in Honduras. He’s now advising DOGE & hanging with Trump who has embraced the idea “freedom cities.” Here’s how things turned out in Honduras…. 1/
Wowza. Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. @ForbesTech just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen who advises DOGE & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
3/ I have posted about Nate Fischer and his organizations (New Founding & American Reformer) many, many times. He leads the Dallas chapter of the Society for American Civic Renewal, a Christian only men’s society founded by Charles Haywood.
Surprise, surprise. At Princeton, Pete Hegseth studied under Robert George, a close associate of SCOTUS puppet master Leonard Leo. The two of them apparently remained in touch. 1/ dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/1…
This is maddening. Speaking of the 2004 election in Ohio, John Kerry told Brian Lehrer in 2018 that “The problem for us was we were doubting whether the [voting] machines themselves had been appropriately measured & whether the algorithms were correct, etc. We challenged that ahead of time by the way. People don’t know that. And we were told by the court that we were not able to get that algorithm, to check it, bc it was proprietary information.
And I believe that it was absolutely incorrect that in the United States of America, the election for the presidency of the United States should somehow be the purview of privately owned machines where the public doesn’t have the right to know whether the algorithms can be checked or whether they are hackable or not. And we now know they are hackable.
But we knew as we sat there to decide where to go in terms of the challenge, that we were a nation at war, we had just been through a Supreme Court test of an election four years earlier. I thought once I measured it that whatever constitutional challenge we brought or whatever appropriate challenge we brought to the ballots that were counted, it was going to wind up ultimately in the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court would do the same thing that it did before. We would take the country through a three month exercise with a 5/4 decision that would award the presidency back to George Bush.
Now some people may think that’s the right thing to have done. I thought it would have been horrendous for our country one year into a war, at that moment when there were serious doubts about terrorism and other things, to be going through a long period of questioning of the presidency, and I didn’t think it was the right thing to do for the nation.” 1/ @VP @marceelias