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If Vance manages to succeed Trump, Thiel his benefactor, mentor, and maker will become the most powerful man in the world.

Over the next few years the alt right's extreme ideas became mainstream Republican talking points.

James Daniel Hamel aka J.D. Vance is almost entirely a creation of Peter Thiel.

In 2024 the USA got its first crypto billionaire president.

Balaji Srinivasan had repeated posted calling for the FDA to be replaced with a private company a Yelp for drugs.

Project 2025 proposed a purge of 1 million federal workers and the dismantling of entire agencies.

Tech fascism is built on a flimsy and bizarre framework.

Prophets of doom have a built in advantage because bad things happen so regularly that apocalyptic predictions often seem to come true eventually.

Ron Paul's newsletters trafficked in vicious racism and political fear mongering attacking Dr Martin Luther King Jr but praising Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

Jeff Bezos's Amazon along with Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.