Jemin Na’s Reviews > Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley > Status Update

"When France's right-wing political parties ran strongly in a June 2024 election, Jacob Helberg, the Palantir advisor who'd emerged as an influential hawkish voice against China and TikTok, asked why Marine Le Pen's (NR) party was considered right-wing. This was the party that was forced to expel its founder --...Jean-Marie Le Pen -- for his racism and dismissal of the Holocaust as a "detail of history."

"They've kind of reached a point where they have so much wealth, and so much egomania--and, in some cases, so much drug-addled thinking--that they decide they're going to rule the world, and that democracy is an outdated form of software," Duran said. I mean, why would they want democracy when they think they are the shit? I am pretty sure they want "central planning" as long as they are in control.

The Network State.
"Drawing on the anti-state and corporate charter city ideas then coming into vogue, the Network State described a potential "tech Zionism" in which right-wing techies ("Grays") would buy property, take over local institutions, and cleanse neighborhoods of their ideological opponents ("Blues"). Grays were generally intellectual tech elites who would reap the fruits of technological progress."

Why do these guys hate homelessness? Isn't it a symptom that capitalism is successfully creating the wealth inequality that's supposedly necessary for the benefit of society as a whole?

What they want people to do.
Have multiple children
Stay healthy
Go to church or do community stuff
Be financially responsible
But spend enough for the economy to grow

While working as many hours as they can.
lol.

"[Sacks and his fellow travelers] were angry, they wanted the government to work for them again, while simultaneously seeing it as incapable of doing much good." pg.69

Isn't woke just being accepting and tolerant of different groups and beliefs? I don't understand why that's so bad.

Hey Mr. Rabois, go fuck yourself.
And why do you live? This is not a philosophical question. lol

pg.62

Chapter 6 ends on a cliffhanger and a clear narrative emerges. in that order I think. I felt the cliffhanger and then acknowledged the narrative. But experience and confirm it yourself.
It seems like the author has been building this point from the previous chapters that discuss the Silicon Valley billionaires, Musk, Twitter and Saudi authorities.

"The free-speech absolutist said nothing about Saudi Arabia's abuse of his platform. Perhaps he was simply unaware." pg. 56

"In the years since Dorsey and MBS shook hands, little changed. Twitter's management never took public responsibility for the spying or for the outrageous fact that one of its biggest outside investors regularly arrested people who posted even mildly political remarks on the platform." pg. 55

They made in June 2016.