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“If you’re a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here’s the breakdown:
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel cofounded a company that became PayPal in 1998.
Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley.
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Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance’s successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires, subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug. (Yarvin believes that government bureaucracy should be radically gutted, and perhaps most provocative, he argues that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a “monarchy” run by what he has called a “C.E.O.” — basically his friendlier term for a dictator.”)
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent “The Cathedral,” which secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
Yarvin says that Democracy is an “outdated software” and openly opposes it and that:- Government agencies should be dismantled, and The U.S. should be broken up into “patchworks” controlled by tech oligarchs.
He also says:
– That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to “fix” society
– That the “masses are asses” too dumb to govern themselves.
The strategy is to get the government via R.A.G.E – Retire All Government Employees to make the government incapable of operating.
Then, to replace the government with private corporations.
To eliminate elections because they are “obsolete”
To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.
This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters; they are “Dark MAGA.”
This isn’t a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
– Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
– JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
– The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
– If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
That’s it. Now that you understand, you can see how everything that’s happening fits within that lens.
Now the only question is, what do we do about it?
–Jon Sneider, posted on LinkedIn
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