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Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.
I mentioned Balaji’s ideas in two previous stories about Network State-related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco’s government. “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Over the past two years, as Musk has transformed Twitter into a right-wing information weapon, Tan has used the platform, along with his bully pulpit at Y Combinator, to wage all-out war for political control of San Francisco.
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