Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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Really I'd wager it's more Snow Crash myself, it's a book that most of these Silicon Valley guys would have grown up with.
Cyberpunk 2077 was just a continuation of Cyberpunk 2020, which came out before Snow Crash.
In reality, I think the tech bros pull from all sorts of media and don't restrict themselves to just one bible.
That's a good point. Snow Crash does lean heavily into the metaverse in a way that is very aligned with Zuckerberg's concept of it. I remember early interviews with some silicon valley guys and when Stephenson was the darling out there l, like with the early Xbox guys or Google Earth.
Maybe Cyberpunk was popular too but just didn't break through to more mainstream news.
I am but a sample size of one, but I've got a copy of CP2020 and not Snow Crash, haha.
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I am a Taco Bell man myself. Gotta side with winners, ya know?
They will have a gun that induces violent diarrhea. I guarantee it.
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https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism
Next Reddit will start banning you for upvoting anything about it.
Please share this document far and wide. People need to understand what's going on, to stop it.
It's fascist city states that market themselves as tax free libertarian, likely hedonistic. Tech has little (maybe ultra deregulated healthcare) to do with anything other than billionaires who came from tech get to decide who is allowed in. This is a model in Israel and Arab kingdoms with less hedonism, but high slavery levels.
The US is definitely on path to collapse. Current administration is accelerating it. Gifting federal lands to become tax havens is setting it to 11.
Many of these tech bros also talk about an actual solution: Freedom dividends. High tax libertarianism with freedom for all. Power redistribution. Don't compete for jobs we can't do as well as China or robots. Or spend on/promote war. Freedom dividends ends crimes and makes fair labour markets. Fascism and slavery as the "libertarian utopian phoenix from ashes of US" is going to be straight mad max fascism and slavery instead of utopia.
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I had never heard about the "Network State" concept before, but now I hate it, because Zuckerberg sure as hell loves it
the only reason to ban it is if it’s their plan
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This man has a bunker and everything. He's scared shitless and he is ready to hide. Their assets need to be seized and accounts drained
That's not a joke, ALL these dudes have extensive doomsday prep. Secure facilities, staffed and stocked. There's a ton of reporting on it. They're gonna fare a LOT better than we are if shit gets really outta hand. Unless we do something about them before it gets to that point, anyway.
Edit: added a detail
They are going to get killed by their own militias
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Imagine just letting him be in his bunker, but you park a cement truck on top of the door.
Can we put them in there now?
Why wait? Cement the bunkers before they can hide in them!
You think we could pull a "Blast from the Past" and think Zuck into thinking the world is ending so he rushes to his bunker?
Other people saw that?
His bunker on a Hawaiian Island. Dude really wants to be far away from everything when shit pops off.
Yeah because when I think about kicking off world wars, the last locale on my mind is Hawaii
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Streisand effect: I had never heard of the “network state” until now. Uh, thanks for being such an asshole, Zuck!
There's a whole video that blew up a couple weeks ago about this. Highly recommend you watch it.
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I just found out like a week ago. Look up techno feudalism. Apparently these guys have been talking about it for a long time.
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Pay no attention to the fascist behind the curtain.
The fascist in front of the curtain is loud enough already.
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Pay no attention to the man-child behind the curtain.
Corporations can't even run corporations well. That's one of the lessons we should've took from 2008.
Of course they are. They'll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.
Zuckerberg:( hello fellow organic lifeform, you must not converse in my take over of your limited lifespan
They’ll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.
Damn right they should!
Managed Democracy is the true path, all who resist it shall suffer our wrath~.
(I hate the possibility that this could be a real thing in the future)
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