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highplainsdem

(59,999 posts) Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:52 PM Dec 13

Gil Duran: Silicon Valley's Fake Christianity Enables Tech Genocide (The Nerd Reich)

https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valleys-fake-christianity-enables-tech-genocide/

I recently joined Paris Marx on the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. We discussed how Peter Thiel is putting a Christian mask on tech accelerationist ideas, why Silicon Valley is trying to claim the mantle of Christianity while violating everything for which Christ stood, and how tech billionaires are like an alien invasion that poses an existential threat to humankind.

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On Elon Musk’s cutting of USAID:
The USAID cuts are Silicon Valley genocide. If 14 million people die, which is what the Lancet projects, that's more than double what Hitler killed in the Holocaust. And it's being done through policy, unnecessary policy, unwise policy.

On the need to ban and stigmatize crypto:
The crypto thing is a real problem, and I think a thing that needs to happen is we need to stigmatize crypto very strongly. It must become unacceptable for Democrats to accept crypto money. If a Democrat is accepting crypto money, they are buying into a dark, anti-American, anti-democratic vision of the future. And if you don't believe me, well then ask them: exactly what is crypto for, Senator? Exactly what is crypto for, Representative? Can you explain to me why anybody needs this? To hedge against the failure of the dollar? Well, isn't it your job to make sure the dollar doesn't fail?

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Click below to listen to listen to our entire conversation (full transcript below):

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Gil's Bluesky posts about this today:

Donald Trump is showing us what's possible.

Anything is possible.

The president can send troops into cities.

The president can make billion off of crypto in plain sight.

The president can tear down an entire section of the White House and build an Epstein ballroom.
— Gil DurÃ¡n (@gilduran.com) 2025-12-13T19:36:26.039Z

Elon Musk can give a Hitler salute at the inauguration and get a trillion dollars.

Peter Thielâ€”the most likely candidate for Antichristâ€”can go around the world calling everyone else the Antichrist.

We can do anything, too.

And we can do it for good, not for evil.
— Gil DurÃ¡n (@gilduran.com) 2025-12-13T19:36:26.040Z

In all the storiesâ€”in the Bible, in Lord of the Rings, science fictionâ€”there's a good side and there's a bad side of the same energy.

So let's understand the power, the force, of â€œhyperstition,â€ and let's start putting it to use sooner rather than later.
— Gil DurÃ¡n (@gilduran.com) 2025-12-13T19:36:26.041Z

Itâ€™s time to reclaim the future from the billionaires who seek their destiny in our destruction.

My full conversation with @parismarx.com on @techwontsave.us

www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
— Gil DurÃ¡n (@gilduran.com) 2025-12-13T19:36:26.042Z

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Gil Duran: Silicon Valley's Fake Christianity Enables Tech Genocide (The Nerd Reich) (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 13 OP

Kick dalton99a Dec 13 #1

The more I learn about Thiel the creepier I think he is. Dave Bowman Dec 13 #2

This whole bit is so spot-on! AZJonnie Dec 13 #3

Been listening to the Nerd Reich podcast lately. Pinback Dec 13 #4

The transcript is a long read, but well worth it. Buns_of_Fire Dec 13 #5

dalton99a

(92,122 posts)

1. Kick

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:56 PM

Dec 13

Dave Bowman

(6,655 posts)

2. The more I learn about Thiel the creepier I think he is.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:02 PM

Dec 13

AZJonnie

(2,807 posts)

3. This whole bit is so spot-on!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:08 PM

Dec 13

The crypto thing is a real problem, and I think a thing that needs to happen is we need to stigmatize crypto very strongly. It must become unacceptable for Democrats to accept crypto money. If a Democrat is accepting crypto money, they are buying into a dark, anti-American, anti-democratic vision of the future. And if you don't believe me, well then ask them: exactly what is crypto for, Senator? Exactly what is crypto for, Representative? Can you explain to me why anybody needs this? To hedge against the failure of the dollar? Well, isn't it your job to make sure the dollar doesn't fail?

ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!!!

CRYPTO SUCKS!

Pinback

(13,502 posts)

4. Been listening to the Nerd Reich podcast lately.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:20 PM

Dec 13

Excellent discussions, for example:

She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her (Sept. 25, 2025) -
https://www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-borsook-saw-tech-fascism-coming/

Big Crypto's Assault on Democracy (July 11, 2025) -
https://www.thenerdreich.com/big-cryptos-assault-on-democracy/

Buns_of_Fire

(19,007 posts)

5. The transcript is a long read, but well worth it.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 05:17 PM

Dec 13

Hyperstition. Keep selling the same meme until everybody buys it. Like the concept that a lie, repeated often enough, eventually becomes the truth.

Personally, I nominate Thiel and Yarvin to be among the first pilgrims to join Xlon on his first trip to colonize Mars. Or to colonize the surface of the Sun, whichever destination AI chooses.

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