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Damn, this guy is unhinged
The scary part is that there are a lot of dumbfucks to cheer on and rich sleazeballs to finance his ideas. If just 0.1% of the population agrees with it (can guarantee that those will be the richest 0.1%), you’re looking at a horrifying future.
The only thing crazier than this idiot inventing a master race of republican-aligned tech bros whose destiny is to conquer Silicon Valley through police banquets is that an entire audience of people took it seriously. The article promised a crackpot’s raving and Balaji sure delivered.
It’s only crazy as long as everyone else treats it as such. When there are also monied interests on board with it, it becomes serious and dangerous.
It’s not like it’s a new idea to bribe the police to get them on your side, the elites have been doing this for decades: https://www.propublica.org/article/private-donors-supply-spy-gear-to-cops .
It’s why the cops are never there when you need them, but they’re always there to defend corporate property.
America has a serious Nazi problem, and unless they’re willing to get real cool about the only ways to deal with Nazis, rich fucks like these are going to keep infecting institutions and making them more and more extreme. This dude is laying out a plan to ethnically cleanse San Francisco and not only is he allowed to walk its streets a free man, but he is allowed to organize other lunatics to follow him.
Americans don’t need to be cool about shit. We’ve been too cool about shit, until this dumb fuck is about ten inches shorter. Not like Balaji will be making productive use of either end if nothing is done.
Currently, advocating violence against Nazis is considered not very cool. I’m indicating that maybe it should be. I’m trying to be respectful to the Beehaw hosts and not explain what I would like to do to people like Balaji, which would certainly violate some content policies.
There is no need to be tolerant towards the intolerant. If someone says they want to do some ethnic cleansing, that’s not exactly a nice gesture and pushing back against that message is both cool and good.
They’re using “get real cool with [the methods]” to mean “get on board with”, not “relax”.
Too few are cool “enough” with the methods when it comes to actually using them. That’s why I’m saying “cool” is the wrong word. We don’t need more chill. We need more people mad enough to act and not even begin to give a damn if anyone is cool with their actions.
Unfortunately, almost none of us reach that point short of direct harms to our persons or our (chosen, birth, whatever)families. Even for the dude who iced Shinzo, it was mostly a personal vendetta.
We need more people mad enough to act and not even begin to give a damn if anyone is cool with their actions.
Which is another way of saying that we need people to be cool with taking actions themselves that the rest of society still deems too extreme to condone.
Another budding dictator waiting to spring. 90% taxes on the rich people, put that back in their place. The people make the rules and no one is above them.
Average conservative moment. What’s scary is that calling for an ethnic cleansing of leftists isn’t a fringe opinion anymore, and people like him are gaining more and more power by the year.
And it’s not like this is just the US. Here in Europe, Italy is ruled by a party that is a direct descendant of Mussolini’s Fascist Party; Hungary is… well, Hungary; extremist right wing parties are very popular in Germany; Finland’s government has multiple literal neo-Nazis in it, with one extremist right-wing party eg. blocking legislation that would help guarantee the impartiality of courts; and the list goes on and on. It’s pretty telling that at least here in Finland, the under-25’s are much more conservative than Millennials or even Gen X – the majority of them voted for either a “fiscally conservative” party (ie. they’ve started down the “everything I don’t like is woke” path and would be fine with concentration camps for leftists as long as they’re privately funded) or an extremist right wing party, which has members who have eg. publicly fantasized about murdering gay people and who stan Breivik
