"While many initially suspected the shooter would be a Bernie Sanders-style leftist, Mangione’s social media feeds reveal an Ivy League...tech bro who disavows 'wokeism' & venerates Elon Musk; a former fraternity member equally as dedicated to AI as he is to psychedelics & self-improvement. And so began the quest to label Mangione, to pin him down. Is he a tech accelerationist? A Dimes Square neo-trad fascist? A dirtbag anarchist?" One subgroup comes out on top:

This one internet subculture explains murder suspect Luigi Mangione's odd politics

No one can seem to pin down Luigi Magione’s weird confluence of beliefs — no one, that is, except the members of this strange subculture.

Destruction Of Government (by) Elon. That’s what DOGE really means. Say it! A simple lesson on framing:

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Destruction of Government by Elon (DOGE)

'Orwellian language points to weakness'

We need a massive public communications campaign to warn the public about crypto. It should highlight 1st-person accounts of everyday people who lost their money due to the #cryptoscam. To strike crypto is to stab the heart of the tech fascist movement swallowing our nation. To start with, we must make "crypto" synonymous with "scam." The very word must make people reach for their wallets (to make sure they're still there). Crypto is still small. Most don't trust it.

Why did so many Americans lurch to the right over the last few years? Hmm. It's truly a big mystery. Anybody got any ideas? ANYBODY?!?! Here's one: Maybe activating these particular neural networks wasn't so dang clever after all.

On the bright side, now the mainstream press will have no choice but to write about network states, algorithm warfare, tech fascism & the plan to replace everything (media, currency, education, government) with crooked crypto versions. Right?!

Stop me if you’ve heard his one before … Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance & the tech billionaire plot to merge with Trump and end democracy as we know it. Plus all this terrifying stuff 👇 Gift Link to NYT Mag:

How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class (Published 2024)

Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.

Reminder that Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman are building their own authoritarian “nation.” They market it as “the next America.” Something has gone very, very wrong in Silicon Valley. This is brazenly bizarre.

A “freedom” party founded by a former Nazi SS officer just won the most votes in Austria. Among its winning message points: -Anti-immigrant -COVID conspiracies -Global warming denialism -Pro-Russia -Anti-“woke” Good thing this could never happen in the USA.

Only 7% of Americans held crypto in 2023. Yet crypto corps have become a major player in American politics, pointing a $200 million gun at this election. It's bad enough when companies with popular products (like oil) do this. With crypto, we're being held hostage by a cult.

Trump -- who says drug dealers deserve the death penalty -- promises to free the creator of Silk Road, an online marketplace for illegal drugs and guns. Ross Ulbricht's case is a popular cause among crypto bros and libertarians. For the San Francisco Chronicle, I wrote about his extreme anti-government views and why the Bitcoin drug kingpin belongs in prison. Gift Link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/crypto-silk-road-trump-19755604.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vb3BlbmZvcnVtL2FydGljbGUvY3J5cHRvLXNpbGstcm9hZC10cnVtcC0xOTc1NTYwNC5waHA%3D&time=MTcyNjQzMjUzODQxOQ%3D%3D&rid=ZDBhY2NhMjQtNzY2Ny00MWYzLWExNzktMGVmMjljNTdjNDE0&sharecount=NA%3D%3D