Slavery cities, then. The freedom they’d seek is the freedom to have slaves. - ThreadSky

juliusgoat.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Slavery cities, then. The freedom they’d seek is the freedom to have slaves.

NEW: Several groups representing “startup nations”—tech hubs exempt from the taxes and regulations that apply to the countries where they are located—are drafting Congressional legislation to create “freedom cities” in the US that would be similarly free from federal laws, WIRED has learned.

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saladm5.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing says safety like unregulated nuclear power😳

djevildave.bsky.social•1 day ago

Libertarianism. A political ideology based on unlimited selfishness.

oldeluke.bsky.social•1 day ago

This just sounds like company towns, which weren't great the first time we tried them... Have y'all read Octavia Butler? Terrifyingly poignant and prescient at this point in time.

jgninja.bsky.social•1 day ago

No fed regulation, we make money, when our mini nuclear reactor blows up and radiates a city, well thats everyone else's problem. SOP

connorstedman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup.

manfool.bsky.social•1 day ago

People should read this and take it seriously. The is is why Vance is there and it's very very bad.

rich-king.bsky.social•1 day ago

Horrendous. So this is what end-stage capitalism is then I reckon: let's erase the phrase "greater good" from our lexicon. JFC, it's a dystopian hellscape.

cafsbsky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump and Musk have both touted a new Golden (Gilded) Age. A prominent feature of the Gilded Age were corporate towns and cities, that would entrap people into slave labor. Your house and purchases were controlled by the company, and people couldn't leave until debts were paid.
(clip from Wired)

curstandcussed.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why is it never the freedom to have a socialist utopia. 🥲

kankansi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Constitutional nonsense. These delusions don’t seem to reflect the nation’s actual history, including the Civil War. The tech bro version of “Constitutional sheriffs” and the Bundt’s.

juliusgoat.bsky.social•1 day ago

“So you want freedom from regulation on industries that are regulated for very good reason?”

“Yeah. Freedom.”

“Any other federal laws you want ‘freedom’ from?”

“Yeah for sure!”

“Which laws?”

“Oh, you know the ones.”

bashthebox.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ahh, yarvin's tech fiefdoms are here

realstuartwhyte.bsky.social•1 day ago

Could they not just learn to play golf, like their grandfathers did?
#BunkerMentality

blucowdawg.bsky.social•1 day ago

…immediate and persistent general strike… asking america to sit on its ass… what could be simpler and more appealing…

bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@juliusgoat.bsky.social having just finished Parable of the Sower, this feels like fiction becoming reality

scrappyaf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rape, child porn, human enslavement, usual stuff.

agrajag9.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sure work will set all the residents free, or some other tired bullshit like that

mfreeman.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘Freedom from what’ is today’s equivalent to ‘states’ rights to do what?’

aviendha69.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh absolutely. always was.

mi-forest.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Let us get RICH while destroying everything else! Yay!"

I am so sick of these people!

webrant.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's all about fulfilling the billionaire Bircher plan to return us all to 19th century subjugation. By destroying our civilization.

https://bsky.app/profile/juliusgoat.bsky.social/post/3ljuhxkl2k22u

janerabbit.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just had an appalling train of appalling thoughts about this. Omg what are they doing to us? Thought resistance!

wildplumbay.bsky.social•1 day ago

They did not read Lord of the Flies in high school I guess.

madpadre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Really not keen on our cyberpunk future.

jknorrland.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

orion-magic.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Wait till they hear about what happened in Grafton - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling

jaymo31415.bsky.social•1 day ago

Teresa May was proposing the same thing on the UK. ‘Charter cities’

highnumber.bsky.social•1 day ago

But they'd be "free" from the protection of laws too, yes?

anguilline.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not enough for them to ensure we live at best a C+ life thanks to their depredations. They need to actually hold the title to you in their hand.

spamwise.bsky.social•1 day ago

The techbros have been trying to turn San Francisco into a company town for the last decade plus, with increasing levels of success. From a purely selfish perspective the idea of them building their dystopia somewhere else and leaving me and my family alone has some appeal.

spamwise.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•1 day ago

Demolition Man. People underground eating rat burgers.

felinius.bsky.social•1 day ago

Didn’t we have these before, and called them company towns?

maskedman.bsky.social•1 day ago

🎶St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store🎵

cvilletgr.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's the bad news. The good news is the freedom to have unregulated nuclear reactors.

griesar.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want plantations.

kaycoughlin.bsky.social•1 day ago

This move was predicted by the brilliant Octavia Butler in "Parable of the Talents." It's the second book in her saga that begins in Nov 2024 when an authoritarian strongman is elected pres of the U.S. She published the first book *in 1993* 👀. Cannot recommend highly enough #Resist

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•1 day ago

If only there were some recent examples of these same people being virulently opposed to localities not cooperating with enforcement of certain laws in the interest of protecting and showing compassion for identified groups of repressed and marginalized people. Guess I can't find any.

kristihimmelfarts.bsky.social•1 day ago

#StopTheCoup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riX2Ww80Ow0

kristihimmelfarts.bsky.social•1 day ago

#ThereAreNazisInTheWhiteHouse

And they want to kill us

#StopTheCoup

kristihimmelfarts.bsky.social•1 day ago

#StopTheCoup

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared

ursahops.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hyperbolic and verbose?

beardedjayhawk.bsky.social•1 day ago

"prisoners with jobs"

anarchodaoist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sure. That's what "economic freedom" means.

donald-dire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds like a "sovereign citizen's" wet dream.

packingsmacky.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want Snow Crash without the cool shit

mrchrishain.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is unconstitutional. The outcome of the Civil War was very clearly the 14th Amendment which gave the federal government the constitutional right to enforce federal rights within all U.S. territory.

pjeanne97.bsky.social•1 day ago

“What do you mean you don’t like the barbed wire fence around the city? It’s there to protect you!”

balloonsoup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Freedom cities, or in other words Lawless Hellscapes run by tech overlords. They sound like a nice place to raise a family.

riggsveda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Slaves like James Streetman, who, like all workers, only exist to make the bosses rich.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=520dBrj-ELs&pp=ygUYUGhlbml4IGFsYWJhbWEgc3RyZWV0bWFu

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