• President Camacho@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    When I read Snow Crash, I had a hard time getting into it because I though the idea of wholesale privatisation of government responsibilities and territories went a bit too far…

    Tech bros really have a hard on for the Torment Nexus.

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      A lot of well-connected scions of wealth read that, along with Ayn Rand, and thought “fuck yeah”

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        14 hours ago

        These 10 percenters all think they will be Uncle Enzo and his pizza company while in reality they will be running low cost Rent-a-Copz outfits in rotted out strip malls in middle America when the real wealthy people crash them out of the system becoming untouchable ultra elites.