Tech Bro Elites
2009
2009-04-13 Founder of PayPal and Palantir Peter Thiel wrote in an essay The Education of a Libertarian, “The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron”. Peter Thiel also wrote, “…I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2023
2023-11-09 Peter Thiel called the quest for democracy “very evil”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2025
2025-06-02 Far-right influencer Curtis Yarvin – a software developer and political blogger – writes about autocratic takeovers and neo reactionary movements. Yarvin uses the pen name Mencius Moldbug and advocates a system of government run by CEO-like authoritarians with unchecked power.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Curtis-Yarvin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump
2025-06-02 A news article wrote that Curtis Yarvin argued for a policy he called RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) to seize and consolidate power. JD Vance was interviewed in 2021 on Jack Murphy Live, and stated, “There’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who’s written about some of these things…I think that what Trump should do, like, if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts – because you will get taken to court – and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say ‘The chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it’”.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24266512/jd-vance-curtis-yarvin-influence-rage-project-2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2025-10-10 Peter Thiel was quoted in an article saying, “…critics of technology or artificial intelligence are ‘legionnaires of the Antichrist”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/