Thread by @jennycohn1

😳 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/

2/ thenetworkstate.com/on-network-sta…

3/ medium.com/@dsafe.ecosyst…

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 21/ Thread.

https://twitter.com/gilduran76/status/1823426458494361828

@gilduran76 22/ 💯

https://twitter.com/dukezer0/status/1862667748922597877

@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…