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Silicon Valley's Dark Quest For Techno Fascism

2025-12-22 News & Politics
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Krystal is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Silicon Valley's quest for techno fascism. Jacob Silverman: https://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Rage-Radicalization-Silicon-Valley/dp/1399419986 Sign up for a PREMIUM Breaking Points subscriptions for full early access to uncut shows and LIVE AMAs with the hosts every week: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/support Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Breaking-Points/61575893472315/ #news #politics #youtube

Top Comments (10)

@SaharSalem-yo3nk 2025-12-22

These billionaires are the enemy of humanity

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@UTube-g8q 2025-12-22

Ushered in by decades of Corporate Conservative Capitalism

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@dionysus4821 2025-12-22

"The dismantling of the CFPB isn't about 'deregulation'; it’s a deliberate clearing of the field for the Neoreactionary (NRx) blueprint written by Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) years ago. We are watching the 'RAGE' plan—the wholesale retirement of the administrative state—being used to 're-platform' the US government into a Corporate Monarchy. Figures like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel aren't just removing 'woke' bureaucrats; they are stripping the only guardrails that prevent their own fintech and AI firms from owning our financial and behavioral data. While the public is distracted by the 'efficiency' theater of DOGE, hedge funds are quietly seizing the physical infrastructure—the data centers and energy grids—that will allow them to levy a 'private tax' on every digital breath we take. They robbed our data to build their empires, and now they are buying the coop to charge the chickens rent. This is the 'Network State' in action: a future where you don't have rights, you just have a 'Terms of Service' that you can't afford to decline."

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@M-b2o6g 2025-12-22

May their fates parallel Doctor Frankenstein

86 4 replies
@scottbohart1592 2025-12-22

This is one of the more depressing things I’ve watched here

70 1 replies
@abuharam 2025-12-22

Thank you for mentioning googles former slogan 'Dont be Evil'— I don't hear it mentioned enough these days

55 4 replies
@vicproulx6843 2025-12-22

Google's parent corporation Alphabet is acquiring Intersect, a data center and energy infrastructure company, for $4.75 billion in cash.

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@dionysus4821 2025-12-22

"The Neoreactionary coup is complete. While we argued over politics, the 'Dark Enlightenment' crowd (Thiel, Musk, Sacks) moved in to 'fork' the US government like a piece of software. They called the institutions 'corrupt' to justify tearing them down, but the real play was always the data. The wolves didn't just break into the coop—they’re currently digitizing the chickens to sell the feed back to us. Welcome to the Corporate State phase, where citizenship is just a subscription model."

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@johnercek 2025-12-22

I loved the reference to the 20's futurists. I wish we learned more about them in our standard understanding of the events leading up to ww2

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@robertogreen 2025-12-22

the title of this ep is basically a Mr. Bungle song.

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