{"id":18481,"date":"2025-04-13T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/the-rise-of-end-times-fascism\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:37:25","slug":"the-rise-of-end-times-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/the-rise-of-end-times-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of end times fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them<\/p>\n

The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (\u201cseasteading<\/a>\u201d) or pro-business \u201cfreedom cities\u201d such as Pr\u00f3spera<\/a>, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.<\/p>\n

Yet despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down: it turns out most self-respecting rich people don\u2019t actually want to live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while Pr\u00f3spera might be nice for a holiday and some body \u201cupgrades\u201d, its extra-national status is currently being challenged in court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
\nThe movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (\u201cseasteading\u201d) or pro-business \u201cfreedom cities\u201d such as Pr\u00f3spera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
\nYet despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down: it turns out most self-respecting rich people don\u2019t actually want to live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while Pr\u00f3spera might be nice for a holiday and some body \u201cupgrades\u201d, its extra-national status is currently being challenged in court. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own …<\/p>\n

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