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al bupp

(2,563 posts)
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 06:11 PM Wednesday

The Master Plan That Peter Thiel Doesn't Want You To See

From More Perfect Union

Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California. The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies. We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

I have been researching one of the weirdest stories that I've ever looked into. It's about a once-fringe movement among the tech elite that aims to replace governments entirely with corporations. Privatized societies run by CEOs, built for profit, not for people. Almost like they wanted their own little worlds, playlands built just for them, based on their desires.


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The Master Plan That Peter Thiel Doesn't Want You To See (Original Post) al bupp Wednesday OP
He's a damn Ferengi. yourout Wednesday #1
Can you say Curtis Yarvin? yellow dahlia Wednesday #2
That would explain zuckerberg's badhair77 Wednesday #3
California can stop him, let him go somewhere else 🚫 FakeNoose Wednesday #4
Anti-America American Billionaires delisen Wednesday #5
It's no longer as much about Left vs Right al bupp Wednesday #6

yellow dahlia

(6,955 posts)
2. Can you say Curtis Yarvin?
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 06:28 PM
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These people are not playing with a full deck. They are treated like they have some degree of legitimacy in society, merely because they have money.

Our society needs a paradigm shift.

badhair77

(5,244 posts)
3. That would explain zuckerberg's
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 06:36 PM
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community with tunnels that he’s building. It’s obscene what money can do.

FakeNoose

(43,171 posts)
4. California can stop him, let him go somewhere else 🚫
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 06:44 PM
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These self-governing units are just like massive data centers in that they require big-money investments from a small group PLUS they have to get permits and zoning variances from the local communities where they try to buy-in.

You stop them by making sure the permits are controlled by a state organization that cannot be bought or bribed. Don't allow permits to be given out to these groups, and they're out of business. They'll move on to some area that isn't so difficult and everyone looks the other way.

Once they're in and they've bought the property, and they have the permits, they'll never leave until they own the entire state.

delisen

(7,510 posts)
5. Anti-America American Billionaires
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 06:52 PM
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Radicalized in Silicon Valley.

This is the Don Jr version of the Trump family pathology.

al bupp

(2,563 posts)
6. It's no longer as much about Left vs Right
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 10:25 PM
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As it is about the working class vs the billionaire class

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