[K-Dog]

End Times Fascism: The Billionaire Nerd Right and the Politics of Apocalyptic Exclusion

By K-Dog

Billionaires are into doom. And now we have the Billionaire Nerd Right.  Bunker mentality politics of exploitation and exclusion. Where did it come from? How are American politics being warped by billionaire prepping?

The answer lies in a warped understanding of Voting with Your Feet.  Warped because it is a walk towards tyranny rather than away from it.  Those with means can abandon the obligations of citizenship altogether.  Take what society gave them and abscond.  Forsaking all social responsibilities.  For years, the far-right and Silicon Valley oligarchs have pushed the extreme vision of corporate city-states.  High-tech fiefdoms like Honduras' Próspera (a libertarian med-spa dystopia) or seasteading (floating tax havens for the ultra-rich). Now, with Trump's "freedom cities" and Musk's Mars colonization fantasies, this neo-feudal exit strategy is mainstream.  Tax havens are a thing, why not a social rights haven too.  This is not a stretch for a deranged mind.  You don't think so only because you do not have one.  Think Guantanamo or El Salvador.  A billionaire island run like ancient Rome only follows a trend already being expressed.

Curtis Yarvin, a mediocre thinker peddling pro-capitalist bullshit about running government like a business (where you fire the "unproductive," hoard profits, and exclude the unwanted) is a product of our times. Any dumfuck with a hard-on for hierarchy would've been elevated by our tech billionaires. If I had no soul, it could've been me.  It is an easy way for slime to pay bills.

But here's a diabolical twist in America's new fascism: unlike classic national socialism, this strain doesn't promise a utopia for the "pure" at the end of the struggle. Billionaires don't plan on ordinary people breaking on through to the other side. Billionaires see collapse as an opportunity.  They've stockpiled bunkers, built private militias, and have their propaganda worked out to make all their shit smell good.

Why? Because billionaires can imagine buying their way out in ways most people can't. Collapse doesn't scare them; it excites them. It's the ultimate power fantasy, a world where empathy is dead and absolute control is their reward.  There is no check on their fantasy.

Elon Musk is the walking embodiment of this: a man who gutted Twitter's moderation, embraced far-right conspiracies, and dreams of a Mars colony while Earth burns.

Picture it: Plantation manor homes with LED lighting and central air conditioning, each part of a local apartheid. The 0.5% live a "normal" life, and everyone else is a confined, uneducated slave. No escape. No future.

To most, this sounds like scary, deranged shit. To doomers, it's a nightmare. To billionaires? It's their plan.

We shouldn't have billionaires. That idea seems irrational because we're trapped in the capitalist matrix, where such talk is blasphemy. But our perceptions are distorted, and the blue pill is in our blood.

Tax multi-million-dollar incomes into oblivion. No one needs a billion dollars. No one earns a billion dollars. They steal it.  From workers, from the planet, and from your future.  If we don't stop them, their "end times fascism" will ensure that the future belongs only to them.

[K-Dog]

   
The Rich Know What is Coming Our Way!

By John Steele and James Reed

The article from Medium, titled "The Rich Are Hoarding Wealth — Because They Know What's Coming" by Angus Peterson, inspired this.

https://medium.com/edge-of-collapse/the-rich-are-hoarding-wealth-because-they-know-whats-coming-c84afcb2e6c1

argues that the ultra-wealthy are not just accumulating vast fortunes but are actively preparing for an impending societal collapse. It suggests that billionaires are aware of the fragility of the current system, marked by a "polycrisis" of supposed climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, economic instability, and rising authoritarianism, and are taking steps to insulate themselves from the fallout. One of the key examples it implies (though not directly named in the excerpted text) is the trend of building doomsday bunkers, a phenomenon often associated with figures like Mark Zuckerberg.
   
The piece paints a stark picture: while the general population is urged to adapt to worsening conditions—cut back on consumption, recycle, and endure—the rich are hoarding wealth at an unprecedented scale. This hoarding isn't just about luxury; it's strategic, a hedge against a collapse they see as inevitable. The author asserts that this isn't a distant dystopia but a present reality, with wealth inequality spiralling to levels that could destabilise society within a decade. The ultra-wealthy, it argues, are buying remote islands, stockpiling resources, and constructing fortified retreats, all while their actions—such as exploiting resources and influencing policy—accelerate the very crises they're preparing to escape.
   
Mark Zuckerberg's case fits this narrative. Reports have surfaced that he's building a $270 million compound in Hawaii, featuring a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter. While Zuckerberg has downplayed it as a mere "basement," the scale and secrecy of the project fuel speculation that it's a bunker designed for worst-case scenarios. This aligns with a broader trend among billionaires: Peter Thiel, for instance, has invested in New Zealand properties as a potential refuge, and others have been linked to similar fortified hideaways. The article suggests these moves reflect a tacit admission that the system—economic, environmental, or social—is teetering on the edge, and the elite know it.
   
The argument hinges on the idea that collapse is "baked into their business plans." The rich aren't just reacting to instability; they're profiting from it, exacerbating inequality while securing their own survival. Critics might counter that wealth accumulation and bunker-building don't necessarily prove foresight of collapse—some see it as paranoia, tax strategy, or simply the perks of excess capital. Yet the piece insists this is more than coincidence: the polycrisis is real, and the wealthy are positioning themselves as the only ones who'll weather it, leaving the rest to face the consequences of a system they helped destabilise.
   
In short, the article frames the rich, including figures like Zuckerberg, as both architects and survivors of an inevitable breakdown, hoarding wealth and building bunkers because they see the writing on the wall—a wall they've helped to smash.
   
https://blog.alor.org/the-rich-know-what-is-coming-our-way-by-john-steele-and-james-reed

[K-Dog]

SUBSTACK.COM • 2025-07-30

The Ghost in the Machine: How the Cold War Created the Culture Wars

The roots of the modern "woke" left are not found in the halls of the Kremlin, but in the boardrooms of Washington, D.C., and the covert operations of the CIA.

An alternative 'anti-establishment left' that eschewed class politics and rejected revolution in favor of a radical individualist interpretations of social transformation.  Bedroom freedom.

Which the mega millionaire American ruling class cares nothing about.  The locomotive of leftism was sidetracked towards the city of individual expression.  It became an if you are not pro-trans you are a fascist kind of train.  A train having nothing to do with social equity or the means of production or which is in the best interest of society.

Peace love and a gift economy.  Feed the world with flower power which to a true acolyte is the strongest power in the universe don't you know.



That is the wealth distribution of a flower power 'gift society' over time. 

Most people have ZERO wealth in a gift economy.  So such cultural masturbation is nothing for an elite class to be concerned about.  The 60's 'revolution' moved leftism from the factory to the head.  Where it now is now forever stuck.  Legends in individual minds.  Only cheap corn syrup keeping dreams alive.

Is it no wonder we live in a soup of inequality and social bankruptcy now.  People let elite money call all the shots.  So here we are.

Money and class has controlled the socialist narrative for 80 years, diluting it of meaning.  Everyone is brainwashed and controlled.  No critique of existing arrangements is now possible.

We are doomed.

[RE]

Bedroom freedom.

If we at least got "bedroom freedom" it might have been worth it.  Except we didn't even get that.  Sex is now more screwed up than ever.  These days, if you even look at a woman sideways you'll probably be sued for sexual harassment.  People don't even  want to have sex because they might end up having a kid they can't afford.  If you have a kid, you're afraid to discipline the little devil and get charged with child abuse.  Fortunately though, it's OK to fuck a chicken.

We are doomed.

I remain hopeful that after a massive die off and 10,000 years recovery time, a new and wiser species Homo v2.0 will reboot and rise  from the ashes of the sorry sewer of a civilization we ended up with this time. 😀

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[K-Dog]

I remain hopeful that after a massive die off and 10,000 years recovery time, a new and wiser species Homo v2.0 will reboot and rise  from the ashes of the sorry sewer of a civilization we ended up with this time. 😀

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Wishful thinking, human survival will probably require de-evolution like in 'Galápagos' by Kurt Vonnegut.

The passengers' descendants evolve into seal-like creatures suited for their aquatic surroundings. These new beings, labeled as humankind, lack the sophisticated brains of their ancestors. Vonnegut critiques the "big brain" that led previous humanity to despair. He argues that smaller brains could lead to simpler, happier lives as the descendants embrace their natural instincts.

And great white sharks are our natural enemy.  If so humans will at last achieve their appropriate insignificance.  Like the rest of life on planet Earth, we will have a day in the sun and that is all.  Perhaps it is not the big brain, but human hands that the Earth will learn to do without. 

Or perhaps humans become a discarded ticket on the floor of an empty theater after closing.  One of millions of dead ends playing out their act on the stage of life.

[K-Dog]

The GDP for America is strong.  The lets turn GAZA into a casino with beaches crowd of psychopaths loves the news.  Could Trump live long enough to bankrupt casinos on both sides of the Atlantic?

We know the people living in GAZA will not.  And we know the American people have a million fewer jobs over the last year than they did in an economic climate that is ruining the value of the dollar.  Down it is against the Euro by more than 10% over the last year.  Yet people continue to embrace the orange.

We would be better off with European bank accounts.  The idiot arrogant psychopath billionaire class is running things into the ground.

But it seems the American reaction remains.  this way.

"While worries surrounding the jobs market, tariffs and inflation continue to swirl, the economy continues to defy its doubters by chugging higher," said Bret Kenwell, U.S. investment and options analyst at eToro, in an email.

Exports grew at an 8.8% rate, while imports, which subtract from GDP, fell another 4.7%.

Investment and options analyst, no bias there.

The claim of consumer spending is a neat trick.  The second highlight is perhaps closer to the truth.

A jump in Net Exports (exports up 8.8%, imports down 4.7%). In technical terms, this is a massive boost to GDP because of how the formula works:

GDP=C+I+G+(X−M)

Where X is exports and M is imports. When imports drop, the GDP number "chugs higher," However, for a regular person.  A drop in imports can just mean higher prices or a sign that people can no longer afford to buy things from China.   It's a "strong" number that can mask a weakened consumer.

And could it be that having to spend more drove an increase in what consumers spent.  If so that data can be twisted to make shit shine.