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Knowing these guys a bit, I’ll slightly disagree. They were always regressive, and don’t actually have enough fluency to have a genuine political POV. This is why bullshit narratives that flatter them, like Yarvin-style neoreaction, could easily sway them. Then, rising worker power radicalized them.

This feels pretty close. Reactionary thought in silicon valley isn't new, especially given how deep the "Libertarian" point of view seems to penetrate in those circles. Yarvin started writing decades ago and not enough people seem to be drawing that connection