Commentary straight from some of the sources
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BW89BudtySvpzpYni/stone-age-billionaire-can-t-words-good
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Sorry phone picture and tangent but wow I sure regret digging and looking at this man's horrible blog and his horrible commenters
Nice to see the top comment being about how such excess concentration of wealth is kind of bullshit actually.
I am amused by people who cannot believe that one of the actual attendees isn't an opponent doing a parody
so many temporarily embarassed millionaires there, with the clarity of mind and purpose of a precocious seven-year-old.
strong echoes of the (probably fictional) reddit tale of the anarcho-capitalist who gets beaten up by real anarchists in Greece.
Wh... What
I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me."
Beats Yud's fan fiction any day of the week.
you can't have anarchy with democracy, that's why democracy is the enemy
This explains a lot about why so many of these shitheels happily work with fascists and monarchists
Yes, I know they are different kinds of "anarchists" and not really full anarchists like us.
My dude what in the world
Do NOT violate the sacred NAP!
"It’s horrifying to see normal people you dance with turn into nazis so easily."
..you're calling the people who hate the billionaires nazis? have you seen what the average billionaire has gotten up to recently???
Aella's dumb fucking sign pisses me off. No shit the 1% pay lots of taxes, they have a lot of money!
"billionaires build prosperity" even has the causal arrow wrong. Bezos didn't start amazon as a billionaire for example.
Oh the reference is to that Aella. With the gnomes and LSD.
And the BO
Sorry this is tiktok but it feels very relevant: https://www.tiktok.com/@keegantindall/video/7324804303376436526
she's pretty unambiguously a nazi btw
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-march-for-billionaires-bust/
“California is, I believe, the only state to give health insurance to people who come into the country illegally,” Kauffman said nervously. “I think we probably should not be providing that.”
“So you’d rather everyone just be sick, and get everyone else sick?” another reporter asked.
“That’s not what I’m saying,” said Kauffman.
“Isn’t that effectively what happens?” the reporter countered. “They don’t have access to health care and they just have to get sick, right?”
Kauffman contemplated that one for a moment. “Then they have to just get sick,” he said. “I mean, it’s unfortunate, but I think that it’s sort of impossible to have both liberal immigration laws and generous government benefits.”
Do I need to comment on this one?
one thing that's so funny to me about this is that of course you're not supposed to say "we're going to brutalize poor people so billionaires don't have to pay more tax." you're supposed to say a rising tide lifts all boats, that kind of thing, and in fact there's a pic in the article where he's holding a sign about how a bigger pie means bigger slices or something to that effect. but as soon as he opens his mouth he just throws "we're going to take the healthcare" out there, because he has no self awareness, no critical thinking, no understanding of what in fact he is trying to do
This passage from the above-linked lw post from the "stone age billionaire" guy about how counter-protestors tried to prevent them from speaking is really telling:
Then my friend Ben realized that this is a giant game of “I’m not touching you” for adults. Which is the stupidest dang thing IMO, but is pretty symetrical. A few of us just stood close together in a line, and we moved the speeches to the other side of that line. The counter-protestors would have to walk through us to block that speech, and we just didn’t move. When they tried to go around us we shifted to be in front of them. And they couldn’t actually touch us because that was against the rules, so this worked?
I thought we all understood at this point that baiting your enemies into violence was one of the operating principles behind a lot of protests like this. Maybe not as a primary goal (unless you're the Westboro Bastard Church trying to get ammunition for lawsuits against the host city for failing to adequately protect you from the consequences of your own actions) but historically speaking violent repression isn't exactly a failure state for these events. One of the biggest victories for civil disobedience was putting the violent absurdity of segregation on full display by getting massive crackdowns on them for sitting in a restaurant, for example. Making the implicit violence of injustice explicit changes the emotional valence and makes it harder for John Q Public to justify actively supporting it. If you don't have enough mass support to implicitly threaten to do something (i.e. look at all these people who will cause problems if not recognized) then arguably being repressed is an even more significant goal because showing that "about two-dozen kooks believe something" isn't exactly going to mobilize social change on its own and it's not like billionaires care about solidarity with the hoi polloi.
But considering the absolute bafflement on display about counterprotests being willing to rudely inconvenience them it really feels like they understood that sometimes people who believe things will do this thing called a "protest" where they get together and chant slogans and wave signs and have a grand old time, but had no coherent idea of why and never really thought to ask.
i can't believe the media is straw manning me. but actually now that you've said the horrible things i don't wanna say out loud that sounds good actually, let's do that
These people are convinced it's the poorest that are getting a free lunch.
"The Poor get ALL the breaks! It's not fair to Billionaires!"
Major "pick me" energy in that first photo.
Also a rapist per allegations on twitter.
with the current state of billionaires that was to be expected
Man, not even enough marchers for me to post the Arrested Development photo of Tobias Funke proclaiming, "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"
Thank god
"There are dozens of us! Dozens (fractional)!"
And when our descendants build a museum to these bizarre and painful times, there will be docents of them. Docents!
i thought that the whole ruling principle of the effective altruists is primum non docere
The tip your landlord sign has to be satirical right? ...right?
For my own sanity I’m going to believe it is
Its not, I'm so sorry: https://reddwarf.app/profile/did%3Aplc%3A4u5lwptzz2bi4ccf6pzditjm/post/3meddffnork2m
March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 9h About two dozen people joined the march. Plus some obvious trolls with colored signs who counterprotested. February 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM
they actually meant "tip your landlord into the nearest garbage bin"
Lol protest in Pac Heights.
been mulling about these fuckers over the weekend and it’s absolutely wild how far they are wilful participants. self-identified chosen fuckwits, even if a number of them are (or at least, start out as) weaponised useful idiots
incredibly frustrating
But maybe a billionaire will notice them, and be pleased. That makes it all worthwhile.
I think their brains have just been thoroughly microwaved by social media feedback loops. I remarked elsewhere that I'm not sure these people are or can be earnest about this (cf. the fact that the billionaires they're celebrating are laser-focused on the tech they claim might doom the world); they're simply too conditioned towards creating outrage content for Twitter. To me, this is more akin to LARPing "Leave Britney alone!" than it is serious political activism.
To me, this is more akin to LARPing "Leave Britney alone!" than it is serious political activism.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Don't forget that monarchists are still a thing
From another perspective, royalty gossip is the progenitor, and now the semi-vestigial rump, of the modern celebrity gossip industry
To me, this is more akin to LARPing “Leave Britney alone!” than it is serious political activism.
I will be 0% surprised to learn that aella et co got paid 5+ figures for this shit
Do you reckon it was a net negaive for them? It's heartening (to me) that it was such a damp squib, and it's always entertaining to witness the civillians' reaction to their first taste of TPOT.
Seeing these dingdongs in the sunlight helps observers get over the "It cant be that stupid" barrier, in my experience.
Only property. Water, however, isn’t a human right. Right Nestle?
30 rationalists gathered outside and nobody told them to touch grass
The grass was literally right there, guys.
Her shirt describes her perception of reality
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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