Roger Stone is promoting Prospera, a “Freedom City” (per Stone) in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen (who once tweeted that “anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people…”) & Balaji Srinivasan (author of The Network State: How to Build a New Country). 1/ - ThreadSky

jennycohn.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Roger Stone is promoting Prospera, a “Freedom City” (per Stone) in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen (who once tweeted that “anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people…”) & Balaji Srinivasan (author of The Network State: How to Build a New Country). 1/

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verwirt.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trump resort

damon.kiesow.net•11 days ago

I really love 'self-deporting' for these guys except for the inevitable damage they are/will cause in Honduras.

lyndi-b.bsky.social•11 days ago

To be included with Greenland, Canada and Mexico?

4gabriel.bsky.social•12 days ago

Lots of expats in S America -old people waiting to be ripped off by the next big shiny

psaltis.bsky.social•12 days ago

Cool — something of the Jim Jones vibe here

mercyvp.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

laurenceballard.bsky.social•12 days ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-trumps-commutation-of-roger-stone-is-highly-unusual From 2020:
"Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so."

Mueller's team — "identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel, Stone among them."

Crook. Like RMN

gustavo64.bsky.social•12 days ago

I mean, I hate to inflict our problems on Honduras, but if we can get these motherfuckers out of the US, I see that as progress. As long as we don't intervene when the Honduran government decides they've had enough.

hiyer.bsky.social•11 days ago

I’m getting a strong Battlestar Galactica vibe. I mean if there is a town called Caprica, you know there’s one called Prospera. I’m thinking Tesla would be instrumental in creating the Cylons.

k2-18b.bsky.social•11 days ago

📌

hoojo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Settler colonialisation by another name?
A bolt hole/escape zone for wealthy foreigners running from the law, the tax man or just scrutiny, to claim sanctity?

https://colombiaone.com/2025/01/19/honduras-bitcoin-city-prospera/

hoojo.bsky.social•12 days ago

Freedom for who?
More like tyranny by another name

nattybowditch.bsky.social•12 days ago

Obviously, Jonestown comes to mind but a better example might be the Cazique of Poyais:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audacious-scam

bossmangbill.bsky.social•12 days ago

Great post.

boysek.bsky.social•11 days ago

sounds like a royal con

andreakremer.bsky.social•11 days ago

Isn't this where that weird billionaire who's trying to live forever, went to get his son's blood plasma injected into him?

onlyhuman-sorry.bsky.social•12 days ago

Freedom for the rich; slavery for the poor.
We know exactly where this is going.
They will create a far-right totalitarian dystopian country.

policyg.bsky.social•12 days ago

The thing is, this is all a lie. I can easily find you a spot of land inside the US where with $50M you could own the county government and have no neighbors for 50 miles (think Disneyworld but Wyoming). You could build nearly anything. They don't want that, they want to rule over people.

godsowncountry.bsky.social•12 days ago

Nazi Wonderland

marktierneymt.bsky.social•12 days ago

I love it; a tech funded Liberia. Would be desolate in a decade.

bridgetlewison.bsky.social•12 days ago

Another failed libertarian experiment in the works.

sfesue.bsky.social•12 days ago

I want to know who is going to do the physical work to build their utopian cities? Will they enslave non-white people?

hillm.bsky.social•12 days ago

Everyone.

headlessrex.bsky.social•12 days ago

They will enslave everyone and their forced born children... but some of us will get to be cops! & that will make us feel like big strong important boys! Look at my uniform! It's a little dirty because mostly I carry the dead bodies of professors and research scientists to the burn pits.

chizzy83.bsky.social•11 days ago

The hunger Games comes to mind

wolfie2t.bsky.social•11 days ago

Robots!

jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

2/ I thought to check Roger Stone’s TL to see if he was involved with Prospera after learning yesterday that Republicans for Renewal had recently both visited Prospera AND praised Stone.

jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

3/ h/t @ChicagoWaddup (on X)

vinnyazzuri.bsky.social•12 days ago

Let me know if they need help packing.

f33rlezz.bsky.social•12 days ago

They want our kids.

jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

4/ https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4z4fqxxs2v

jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

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jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

6/ https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lc4xk6p4zc2v

jennycohn.bsky.social•12 days ago

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manikodru.bsky.social•12 days ago

Whoa

lifenotes2.bsky.social•12 days ago

why do we need new cities & countries? aren’t they making enough $, have enough power as it is? wtf is wrong w these ppl…& like if most ppl dont want this stuff take a deep breath & practice acceptance & do some self reflection

marcalyn.bsky.social•12 days ago

kind of crazy how half the country is suddenly on board with colonialism without even so much as a discussion.

when you don’t study history, you don’t understand the reasons that everyone backed off expansionism and colonialism

cassandraoftroy.bsky.social•12 days ago

Elites robbing the treasury of an already impoverished nation to build their " Igot mine, fk you" John Galt City.

cooltxchick.bsky.social•11 days ago

Imagine that, a sovereign country being sued by an outsider for deciding what they will and won’t allow in their country, and putting its resources and citizens first. The entitlement 🙄

walterdoodle.bsky.social•11 days ago

GOP Bizzzaro World.

time2move.bsky.social•12 days ago

Good lord! Do you suppose that’s AI as well. That language is very familiar for some reason.

stellarbystarli.bsky.social•12 days ago

Opt out!

keeganc15.bsky.social•12 days ago

Theil definitely sees himself as busy an outright villain right ? Like he wants to play City Skylines with real people.

natalia-armyof1.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Inferior"

sandibachom.bsky.social•12 days ago

Great work Jenny. As always.

writingisagift.bsky.social•11 days ago

😱 I’m so glad you’re over here Jenny. We were mutual friends at the other place, and I always respect your research and receipts. Thank you so much. RP’d.

litzz11.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes, please. They can all go to fucking Honduras. Byyyyye.

alwaysthinking.bsky.social•11 days ago

Eat the rich.

hpsc24.bsky.social•11 days ago

twmcel.bsky.social•11 days ago

📌

g-pec.bsky.social•12 days ago

😂 maga goes from whining about their lack of “freedom” all the way back to ‘colonialism’ in the first 100 days … “Freedom Cities” for US … OR beachfront properties with private armies … trump Junior is on his way …

fatimap72.bsky.social•11 days ago

They have one in Honduras, Próspera. A city, organized like a private business, with its own laws, operated autonomously. International investors are building the charter city of Prospera in Honduras. Now, Peter Thiel is suing Honduras for 11 Billion when they couldn’t get their way.

xausted.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thank you Jenny

jotata75.bsky.social•11 days ago

I can see felon trump selling snake oil in the near future 😂

anita72.bsky.social•12 days ago

They send Richard Grenell to try to prevent the new government from taking power in Guatemala. This really is a worldwide takeover.

on-tannhausergate.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes, please let’s ship all the Libertarian trash to other countries

shanahstone.bsky.social•11 days ago

I assume this is what Trump wants Gaza for? Some sociopathic Oligarch wants a “freedom city”

1truthwhisperer.bsky.social•11 days ago

The white boys CONTINUE to imagine they have 'vast and unmatched wisdom'... self-aggrandizing entitled 'little gods'...enmeshed in video games and CREATING 'worlds they can rule'.

GAG.

blamemacbif.bsky.social•11 days ago

Network states feel like the ultimate crypto rugpull: pump-and-dump micro countries. Early adopters are going to get Jim Jones'ed, high-tech style.

ebwebb.bsky.social•11 days ago

That’s what I was thinking: somewhere in hell, Jim Jones is laughing.

driver9.bsky.social•6 days ago

I say we bring all the native Hondurans here (about 9.6 million) and permanently relocate the 77,302,580 MAGA Republican traitors who voted for Trump to Honduras.

Honduras is 43,433 sq miles in area. So that's 1,780 MAGA Republican traitors packed into each square mile.

Sounds ideal.

pipercat.bsky.social•9 days ago

For your reading pleasure. Spoiler, is doesn’t end well:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mosquito-coast-paul-theroux/1102117786

fingbullshit.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s getting ahead of the market for when his fascist republican friends need a place to escape to, once we kick them the fuck out of our democracy…

fingbullshit.bsky.social•12 days ago

😂😂😂😂

teunemans.bsky.social•12 days ago

📌

teunemans.bsky.social•12 days ago

pfff that fake AI-generated sort of sad smile to make him look like everybody’s doddering grandpa to prevent people from realizing how evil he is.

wolfie2t.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is where I first learned about this https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=F0rBKq2gVtqNlHD_

wolfie2t.bsky.social•11 days ago

After watching that dark gothic maga YouTube about Silicon Valley techs starting own countries started reading about Curtis Yarvin.

tmurp1953.bsky.social•12 days ago

I wondered what that old derelict has been up to! 😂🤣

stoshm.bsky.social•11 days ago

while we struggle w/ their machinations in the present,
they plan for a Theocratic Tech Bro future:

realmissbutter.bsky.social•12 days ago

Let them build a new country, but not in an existing sovereign nation!

And once they find and found said country, deport every single maggot. Every. One.

alicialou.bsky.social•11 days ago

JFC

lumpycarruthers.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Wow, look at all those potential beachfront condos and hotels!"

catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social•12 days ago

Looks like the US is about to experience a surge in immigration from Honduras.

jbvta.bsky.social•6 days ago

Let them all move there

browwiw.bsky.social•11 days ago

Plato's "The Republic" has been the "Catcher in the Rye" for authoritarian assholes dreaming about the perfect top down society for millennia. Fortunately, these dipshits just skimmed the SparkNotes.

thorvalhallen.bsky.social•12 days ago

sueshoes8.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hey they can recreate Epstein’s island

madmode0900.bsky.social•11 days ago

see - he is plotting to take over the western Hemisphere....Putin to take Europe and Chona everything else. He didn't jump on the Greenland, Canada, Panama bandwagon for nothing.

archvillain.bsky.social•11 days ago

These Network State "free cities" can be more accurately seen as "spores" from a malevolent techno-fascist oligarchy. Any sovereign nation opening its borders to them is like inviting the Dracula family over for tea.

tmad4.bsky.social•11 days ago

Totally get this is terrible, but we need to put our own oxygen mask first so we are around to help others.

swttlkr.bsky.social•11 days ago

Also, they think that Honduras is in South America.

phbehnken1234.bsky.social•11 days ago

Dream on.

mkverson.bsky.social•11 days ago

📌

cxmcha.bsky.social•11 days ago

That’s really funny because the president of Honduras it’s not really happy with America right now and has threatened to kick our military off their island. How would they be cooperating with these two shitheads

jeb232.bsky.social•12 days ago

The dream of Avalon never dies.

elliemae.bsky.social•11 days ago

One good thing about this development: more people will know what they’re trying to do— why they’re trying to destroy our democracy. Everyone I’ve tried to alert to the network state issue thinks I’m crazy, alarmist, etc., even though it’s been reported. They just can’t handle how awful it is.

as58.bsky.social•12 days ago

« Trump Is Not the First Republican to Campaign Against ...
May 3, 2016 — Trump, by contrast, is running against nation-building in countries where America has a vital national security interest: Iraq and Afghanistan.» -- https://aei.org

chitobandito.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes! Let them all move to Honduras. I hope they take plenty of Koolaid. And leave the Honduran rainforests alone!

chitobandito.bsky.social•11 days ago

Self-deportation for the broligarchs!

sb159c.bsky.social•11 days ago

Maybe it will be so great that HE will move there

lhjh.bsky.social•11 days ago

Bond villains.

moonriver51.bsky.social•11 days ago

Honestly not a bad idea. Sell them an island in the carribean or pacific and encourage the Magas to move there...Most problems solved!
But seriously great reporting. Thank you.

jasonpaul.bsky.social•6 days ago

stuartl49.bsky.social•12 days ago

I'm in favor of all these assholes going to Honduras.

drichards915.bsky.social•12 days ago

because of course he is. Who wouldn't want to live in Dowhateverthefuckyouwantistan?

sattelitedog.com•11 days ago

Global grift. That is the plan.

dawnmckinzey092567.bsky.social•12 days ago

Can we send the broligarchy now?

drnoreendunnett.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s like living in a dystopian nightmare akin to Brave New World or 1984

lmb6453.bsky.social•11 days ago

Aren’t MAGAts fond of saying “spend that $ in Merca!”

billnemacheck.bsky.social•12 days ago

I assume Suckerville was already used, so they had to go with Prospera.

saxonwaker.bsky.social•12 days ago

Way too many people grew up jerking off to Atlas Shrugged.

bluejwoo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Atlas Tugged

saxonwaker.bsky.social•11 days ago

ebwebb.bsky.social•11 days ago

They failed to grasp that Ayn Rand was the 20th century’s worst comedy writer.

lumpycarruthers.bsky.social•11 days ago

Tired - going back in time and killing Baby Hitler.
Wired - going back in time and killing Baby Ayn Rand.

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social•11 days ago

jenjams.bsky.social•12 days ago

Your post encompasses the entire move of the Republican Party to MAGA over the past 40+ years 😭

osbournemom.bsky.social•12 days ago

geewayne.bsky.social•11 days ago

They should all move there and make it GREAT.

spacewaffles.online•12 days ago

Oh fuck the billionaires want to start colonizing.

opadill.bsky.social•11 days ago

Creating feudal states where little techno rulers exercise control without the pesky interference and oversight of “governments”

mementomori4950.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is a thank you for Peter Thiel

valkayec.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wouldn't go there if you paid me. I don't like being a slave.

johnhatchard.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley" ...

The article, along with added extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬

johnhatchard.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Seeking God, or Peter Thiel, in Silicon Valley" ...

The article, along with added extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬

johnhatchard.bsky.social•12 days ago

A growing army of wealthy crypto bros say they want to secede from the United States and create their own global civilization.

sfesue.bsky.social•12 days ago

They'll need slave labor to physically build these cities.

lifenotes2.bsky.social•12 days ago

maybe screen time really is terrible for u- how did these tech bros get so out there w their dreams & desires?

johnhatchard.bsky.social•12 days ago

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that.

johnhatchard.bsky.social•12 days ago

Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled.

chizzy83.bsky.social•11 days ago

Social democracy will
Always win through against greed and weirdness

chizzy83.bsky.social•11 days ago

Are these men not weird in one way or another?

read88.bsky.social•12 days ago

I really hate all these guys

halleyhart.bsky.social•12 days ago

I'm not calling them that. Tax havens? Or good old fashioned company towns maybe. Thier manipulation of language is disgusting

drrxufa.bsky.social•12 days ago

Exile for trump Neo Nazi gangs

devoidcat.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s not to late to send them to Mars so they can build their own planet free of the rest of us.

seamiracles.bsky.social•12 days ago

should look up what happened to both Fordlandia and The People's Temple in Guyana.

i8haggis.bsky.social•11 days ago

So another Epstein island?

msmilack75.bsky.social•12 days ago

So now they're trying to change India?

samspade1941.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some of these guys are working on behalf of India.

cruisingalong.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trump wants to takeover the world

d-reezy.bsky.social•11 days ago

We need MUCH more Socialism in the US.

richarddonquixote.bsky.social•11 days ago

Shades of Jim Jones...

mutsy67.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wait! What? The culdesac Tempe is one!! Nooooo......
I've been so excited about a carless community. I'm heartbroken 💔

designr.bsky.social•11 days ago

Anybody remember Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') in Chile?

Founded by Nazis fleeing Europe shortly after WWII, Colonia Dignidad was a haven for torture, child abuse, sex crimes, and murder.

Colonia Dignidad was the original Freedom City.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48318295

chizzy83.bsky.social•11 days ago

That is exactly what will happen

designr.bsky.social•11 days ago

Here is a documentary about Colonia Dignidad made after Chile's dictatorship in the 1990s.

Trigger Warning: Be forewarned it is extremely graphic and upsetting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4G6DToi90

citymouse24.bsky.social•11 days ago

The Honduras is the newest iteration of America First

oneofmanysssmiths.bsky.social•11 days ago

I wonder if they have a stockpile of doctored Kool-Aid or perhaps they've switched to Big Balls family owned LessorEvil snakes with a little added punch.