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Buns_of_Fire

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5. The transcript is a long read, but well worth it.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 05:17 PM

Dec 13

Hyperstition. Keep selling the same meme until everybody buys it. Like the concept that a lie, repeated often enough, eventually becomes the truth.

Personally, I nominate Thiel and Yarvin to be among the first pilgrims to join Xlon on his first trip to colonize Mars. Or to colonize the surface of the Sun, whichever destination AI chooses.

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Gil Duran: Silicon Valley's Fake Christianity Enables Tech Genocide (The Nerd Reich) [View all] highplainsdem Dec 13 OP

Kick dalton99a Dec 13 #1

The more I learn about Thiel the creepier I think he is. Dave Bowman Dec 13 #2

This whole bit is so spot-on! AZJonnie Dec 13 #3

Been listening to the Nerd Reich podcast lately. Pinback Dec 13 #4

The transcript is a long read, but well worth it. Buns_of_Fire Dec 13 #5