President Donald Trump is giving Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team access to sensitive tax return information for millions of Americans, opening up the potential for a major violation of personal privacy. The New York Times...
Nothing anarchic about that gaggle of fascists. Anarchist philosophies, as requisite, reject hierarchic societal organization. “AnCap” is not a thing. These are just your run-of-the-mill racists, fascists, and monarchists.
Fair point—I’ll own that. I used “crypto-anarchist” ironically to highlight the absurdity of their self-branding. These people slap “anarchist” onto their ideology like it’s a cool sticker, but what they actually practice is closer to oligarchic tech feudalism.
Real anarchism dismantles hierarchies; these folks just replace them with decentralized scams and call it freedom. If anything, they’re crypto-authoritarians wrapped in libertarian buzzwords, using tech to consolidate power while pretending to oppose it.
Nothing anarchic about that gaggle of fascists. Anarchist philosophies, as requisite, reject hierarchic societal organization. “AnCap” is not a thing. These are just your run-of-the-mill racists, fascists, and monarchists.
Fair point—I’ll own that. I used “crypto-anarchist” ironically to highlight the absurdity of their self-branding. These people slap “anarchist” onto their ideology like it’s a cool sticker, but what they actually practice is closer to oligarchic tech feudalism.
Real anarchism dismantles hierarchies; these folks just replace them with decentralized scams and call it freedom. If anything, they’re crypto-authoritarians wrapped in libertarian buzzwords, using tech to consolidate power while pretending to oppose it.