Balaji lets slip: the "gray tribe" were always just raging neoreactionary techfash

A few months after SF secedes.

"What do you mean president Trump declared we need to pay tribute or he will invade? We don't have an army! He can't do that! Ready my plane, I'm flying to my bunker'

'Shot down you say? Invaded sovereign airspace, that is a thing?'

E: and amazing that his whole idea on how to convince people is 'just give the more money'. He clearly has one hammer.

B.S., a former partner at Andreesen-Horowitz

Lmao, of course.

and former chief technology officer of Coinbase

I.e., the company that survived by shedding a ton of employees, like 40% of headcount or something. I do not see this tactic working well when they're trying to win friends and influence cops by hiring their failsons into sinecure positions.

What makes all this funnier is that it's trying to thread the needle of embracing fascism while simultaneously seething with contempt for 99.999% of the people in the movement.

I'm still kinda proud I got blocked by B.S. back in the pre-Elon Twitter days (it doesn't seem I upset him personally, I was probably just swept up in a Buttcoin-related blocklist)

How do you make all this money and think brogrammer pride parades would not be laughed out of the streets?

(let's call him B.S. for short)

oof

This comment from JWZ's post on this crap is good

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/some-andreesen-horowitz-crypto-bro-bloviates-on-a-vision-of-fascist-san-francisco/#comment-248244