1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:
2/ Here is Thiel’s Preface to The Sovereign Individual.
3/ Here’s a screenshot from the Sovereign Individual (not from Thiel’s preface). This is what I quote in post 1.
4/ Peter Thiel and DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen are close with Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug who wrote the following. bsky.app
Curtis Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited … are smashed, they shld be replaced by a global spiderweb of…independent mini-countries, each governed by its own…corporation w/o regard to the residents’ opinions.” This reminds me of DOGE, “Network States,” & “Freedom Cities.” You? 1/
5/ Balaji wrote the book titled “The Network State: How to Start a New Country”
6/ DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen blurbed Balaji’s book.
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22/ Balaji Srinivasan is an advisor to Pronomos Capital (backed by Thiel & Andreessen), which backs Praxis and Prospera, among other similar projects. Balaji wrote the book titled “The Network State: How to Start a New Country”. The book was blurbed by Andreessen. pronomos.vc
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In 2013, Peter Thiel invested in a tech company founded by “patchwork society” blogger Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug. So did Andreessen Horowitz, “led in the investment by Balaji Srinivasan, who was then a general partner”. 1/ archive.ph
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Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen is reportedly getting involved w/ DOGE. He’s also invested in the “network state” movement led by Balaji Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries w/in existing states via the creation of “parallel institutions” like X. Listen. 1/
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4/ Balaji is a former general partner of Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. en.wikipedia.org
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22/ More from Balaji on the concept of “parallel institutions.” Sound on. 😳
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Prospera is a Tech Bro colony in Honduras backed by Pronomos Capital where Network State leader Balaji is an advisor. Pronomos is backed by Peter Thiel & DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen. Honduras wants to kick Prospera out, so Prospera has sued them for $11B. Honduras just lost a motion to dismiss. 1/
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Frontier Foundation promotes Trump’s plan to build “Freedom Cities” in the US. Its board includes four people w/ close ties to Prospera, a controversial “Tech Bro” colony in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel & DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen (via Pronomos Capital). Prospera has sued Honduras for $11B. 1/
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Nick Allen belongs to Frontier Foundation, which promotes Trump “Freedom Cities.” He owns a place in Prospera (a tech colony in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen) & founded Sovereign House in NYC whose first 3 events platformed Thiel/Andreessen ally Curtis Yarvin (founder of Urbit) 1/
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👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its OWN COUNTRY. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland 4 Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled...1/
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“Peter Thiel’s Deep Ties to Trump’s Top Ranks *** The tech magnate has many links to the new Trump administration and the cost-slashing effort led by Elon Musk.” 3/7/25 1/ bloomberg.com
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2/ Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko is a “Gundo Bro” and former Thiel fellow. In Dec, he observed that the incoming Trump administration was already “stacked with ‘our guys’ from tech, specifically from Thiel’s camp.” (The Thiel-backed 1517 fund is a Rainmaker investor.) bsky.app
19/ Eye opening article about Peter Thiel’s involvement with the first Trump administration. I had no idea… vanityfair.com
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17/ Mark Lutter and Nick Allen (of Frontier Foundation) have also launched the so-called “Freedom Cities Coalition.”
21/ "JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel..." salon.com
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22/ “Tech mogul and billionaire Peter Thiel exerts considerable influence over US President Donald Trump’s administration, a Bloomberg article has claimed. Unlike Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, however, he prefers to keep a low profile.” azerbaycan24.com
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Before Project 2025 and DOGE, software engineer Curtis Yarvin (a blogger and self-professed “monarchist”) proposed RAGE, an acronym for Retire All Government Employees. He did this during a speech in 2012. 👇 1/
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7/ Yarvin told Milo that “he had been ‘coaching Thiel.’” “‘Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,’” Milo responded. “‘Less than you might think!’ Yarvin wrote back. ‘I watched the election at his house…He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully.’”
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54/ In 2013, Marc Andreessen predicted that, “I think there is going to be double, triple, quadruple countries in the coming years…” He also said that, “The transition is going to be very painful," but “I think ultimately it’s going to be very healthy.” archive.ph
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6/ “Curtis Yarvin” is a “good friend of mine” - DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen
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Four words: Andreessen, Andreessen, Andreessen, and Andreessen.
29/ DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen backs New Founding, which is led by Claremont Institute alums Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy. (Abbottoy belongs to the Frontier Foundation, which promotes “Freedom Cities”). bsky.app
11/ Claremont alum Nate Fischer, co-founder of New Founding (backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen), posted this group photo with JD Vance in April 2023.
30/ Again, New Founding Managing Partner Josh Abbottoy belongs to the Frontier Foundation, and we already know that New Founding is backed by Andreessen. bsky.app
12/ Frontier Foundation has also been on my radar bc their team includes Claremont Institute alum Josh Abbottoy, a Managing Partner of New Founding & member of the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR). If u follow me, you have likely seen me post about New Founding & SACR in the past.
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Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
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Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
33/ New Founding (backed by Marc Andreessen) partners with the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR). In addition, New Founding co-founder is the president of SACR’s Dallas chapter, and Josh Abbottoy belongs to SACR too. About SACR…👇 bsky.app
A document trove reviewed by Turning Point Memo “reveals SACR’s core mission: to create a mini-state w/in a state, composed entirely of Protestant, Catholic, & Orthodox Christian men.” (SACR partners w/ New Founding, which is backed by Musk ally Mark Andreessen, a “network state”investor.) 1/
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18/ SACR founder Charles Haywood says that “sex discrimination should be not only 100% legal; it should be aggressively expected and demanded…” (Again, Josh Abbottoy of the Frontier Foundation, which wants the Presidio for a “Freedom City”, reportedly belongs to SACR).
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DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen (a tech billionaire) is invested in New Founding, which was co-founded by Claremont alum Nate Fischer, president of the Dallas Chapter of the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR). SACR was founded by Charles Haywood. 👇1/
38/ Again, Marc Andreessen backs New Founding (per Forbes)/ bsky.app
10/ Josh Abbottoy is New Founding’s Managing Partner. Here he infamously tweeted that “America is going to need a Protestant Franco,” a reference to Spain’s deceased murderous dictator.
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21/ New Founding founder Nate Fischer (president of SACR’s Dallas chapter) also thinks we should consider restoring corporal punishment, such as whipping, caning, and stocks.
40/ Again, Marc Andreessen backs New Founding, which Nate Fischer co-founded and which is building “aligned” communities. bsky.app
43/ Nate Fischer statements re: the Civil Rights Act & civil rights more generally.
41/ More on New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andresseen. bsky.app
DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen backs New Founding (NF) where Josh Clemans is a partner. Clemans graduated from an Idaho-based college founded by pastor Doug Wilson, a self-professed Christian Nationalist. Here, Clemans wrote “Cascadia Reconquista.” “Cascadia” includes parts of Canada, CA, OR, & WA. 1/
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20/ Joshua Clemans is another New Founding partner.
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24/ A few more posts from Joshua Clemans, a partner at New Founding (backed by Andreessen). Here, he promotes the idea of a “new Dutch East India Trading Co” and references Erik Prince who has been interviewed by New Founding.
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25/ New Founding also held a Twitter Space with Erik Prince in July 2024.
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22/ In June 2024, after a conference in Detroit, Erik Prince met with Santiago Pliego of New Founding, Ted Feldmann of Durin Mining, Cody James of Open X, Augustus Doricko of Rainmaker, and others.
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19/ New Founding partners with Galvanick whose founder, Josh Steinman, posted this about Erik Prince and South Africa.
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21/ New Founding partner Santiago Pliego reposted this post from August 2024 about Erik Prince and South Africa.
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31/ “Prince, like [network state leader] Balaji Srinivasan, expects that the 20th century will prove to have been the high point of global centralization, with the future holding hundreds or thousands of smaller states, optimized for efficiency & competence.”
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In Feb 2024, Erik Prince said, ”It’s time” to “put the imperial hat back on to say ‘We’re gonna govern those countries if they can’t govern themselves.” He agreed this amounted to being a colonialist. In Nov, he promoted Prospera, a charter city in Honduras backed by Thiel, Andreessen, & Balaji. 1/
51/ Peter Thiel and the "alt right". bsky.app
On 7/29/16, Tech billionaire Peter Thiel met w/ Kevin DeAnna who wrote under the pseudonyms ‘Gregory Hood’ & ‘James Kirkpatrick. In 2012, DeAnna (as Hood) had written that, “It’s time to fight for a country of our own. It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.” 1/
52/ Curtis Yarvin and the "alt right". bsky.app
😳 Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer & blogger [who claims to have “coached” Peter Thiel & is DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s “good friend”] helped Milo, Bannon, & Breitbart launch the “alt right” into the mainstream in 2017. Remember the “alt right”? (10/5/17) 1/ buzzfeednews.com
53/ More from "Patchwork" by Curtis Yarvin. bsky.app
2/ “No combination” of Patchwork residents “can possibly oppose” the Patchwork “Delegate” (CEO/leader). “Not even if they all come together in one big angry mob…ALL WILL BE MASSACRED BY [the leader’s] INVINCIBLE ROBOT ARMIES.” - Curtis Yarvin aka Moldbug (Caps added; link above)
54/ More from the Network State book by Balaji Srinivasan. bsky.app
“Network state” leader Balaji says that: “physical law enforcement” is gradually incorporating “autonomous robots,” such as “robodogs” & “drones”, so that more is “being done from a command line,” a trend that “gradually converges” with the idea of “digital law enforcement by a network state.” 1/
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11/ “Hard Tech Founders Building Weapon Systems That Will Redraw Nation States” - meme posted by New Founding partner Joshua Clemans (Note that Andreessen Horowitz is invested not only in New Founding, but also in Anduril, a defense tech company.)
56/ Anduril is backed by Thiel and Andreesen. Palantir was co-founded by Thiel. 56/ Anduril is backed by Andreessen. Thiel co-founded Palantir. defensescoop.com
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57/ "Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms" 5/28/24 wired.com
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58/ "Anduril’s Series E round raised $1.48 billion with investments from Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Valor Equity Partners, The Founders Fund, General Catalyst Partners LLC, Lux Capital, US Innovative Technology Fund, and others.” 6/27/24 primeunicornindex.com
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59/ Palantir founders include Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale. en.wikipedia.org
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61/ Link to a shareable webpage for this thread (in case anyone wants to share off of Bluesky). Thanks for reading. skywriter.blue
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Following Trump’s new Executive Order re: the S.F. Presidio, here’s a shareable link to an unrolled version of my highly sourced thread about the Tech Bros’ plan to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. The MSM has yet to connect these dots, & it’s driving me crazy! skywriter.blue