BILLIONAIRES BUILDING BUNKERS WHILE THEY DESTROY YOUR FUTURE: Gil Duran Goes Inside the Nerd Riech
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Rick sits down with GIL DURAN, the #1 bestselling author of THE NERD REICH: SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY, and this one goes DEEP. Gil traces how the tech world's lurch to the right didn't start with Trump — it started with San Francisco recall elections that quietly road-tested billionaire-funded populism, then Elon Musk DROPPING $277 MILLION on the 2024 election. They unpack the strange ideological current running through Silicon Valley, including a fringe monarchist thinker's outsized grip on guys like Peter Thiel, who apparently want a "CEO KING" running America. Then it gets darker: a massive AI-driven wealth transfer aimed straight at your job, OpenAI's own Sam Altman admitting the risks are real, and billionaires quietly building escape compounds from HONDURAS to GREENLAND while the rest of us live with the consequences.
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You can find Gil Duran on Bluesky @gilduran.com. Gil Duran’s new book ‘THE NERD REICH: SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY’ is available now, wherever fine books are sold.
Rick Wilson is on X @TheRickWilson, Bluesky @TheRickWilson.bsky.social, and Substack at therickwilson.substack.com.
More from LP at www.lincolnproject.us and on X @ProjectLincoln.
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