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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

They think this is their right, and they’ve been told so for many years by folks like Curtis Yarvin. Those sycophants, whom they’ve had on payroll for the better part of two decades, have told them they should be literal kings ruling over everyone as serfs. And they believe it.

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Everything laid out in Project 2025 was talked about openly as far back as 2010, and amplified by big VCs as far back as 2014, but most big CEOs didn’t start to fall in line until 2017 or so. By 2020, they pushed out most execs who didn’t agree with (or at least silently accept) this thinking.

Cheryl McNeilly
@cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social

It's not a coincidence that the crazies really came out of the woodwork halfway through Obama's second term, and that finance/big business felt emboldened because they'd been rescued and that the tech guys made themselves into celebrities to be worshipped and followed bad confluence of events

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

The greatest frustration is that warning everyone about this did nothing. Most of those raising red flags were women, usually women of color. Now nearly all are gone — left the industry, or their careers ruined, or dead. You can look on Yarvin’s blog for his post attacking me. In _2012_.

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

They said straight up they wanted to disenfranchise women and people of color. They said they wanted to dismantle the federal government. And the likes of Thiel funded them for building the plans on how to do it. And _nobody cared_ when this shit was pointed out. People thought you were crazy.

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.

Ghostly Anarchic Squid
@leahanelson.bsky.social

I wrote about Peter Thiel and Elon Musk for SPLC in 2012, but I didn’t take them seriously enough. They weren’t household names and I underestimated and flat-out lacked the imagination to consider the possibility of how things are now.

ProdigalHoosier
@prodigalhoosier.medsky.network

Those with influence and reach who SHOULD have been raising alarms years earlier (Biden) waited until it was already too late. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/gi...

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Scott Cory
@jscottcory.bsky.social

Don't forget the role of the Valley's cottage industry's fluffers and gatekeepers (Swisher, Mossberg, and O'Reiley) who made fortunes off of both sanewashing and selling access to them.

Brad Reed
@bwreed.bsky.social

The thing about Yarvin that gets me is, even among fascist thinkers he's incredibly 12th rate, like a Z-grade Carl Schmitt. Only reason he's not literally homeless is he figured out how to kiss Thiel's ass sufficiently.