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Peter Thiel is the conservative gay billionaire behind JD Vance's rise to power (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 54 points 3 months ago

It's not a coincidence that I call the government this coup is clearly intended to establish a "plutocratic/christofascist autocracy."

I have no doubt that many in the Heritage Foundation are sincere in their christofascism, but I also have no doubt that the corporations and billionaires who are bankrolling the whole thing (not just the HF, but Trump, the corrupt supreme court, the complicit media and so on) care little to nothing about all of that. They understand both the popular appeal of religious fundamentalism and the avenues of control it provides, but their goal is much simpler - to gain as much authority as possible so that they'll be free to rob and plunder without the risk of facing an empowered and angry electorate.

The christofascists are definitely a threat, but in the wider scheme of things, they're just tools.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.run 22 points 3 months ago

This makes me think that the religious theocracy will all be a farce. Something meant to punish the lower classes while the upper classes get to live in a parallel liberal society. I mean surely these billionaires realize that in a true christofascist state they'd lose all the opulence and hedonism available to them now. Seems like something they wouldn't want to risk.

[-] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago

Decadence and opulence will still only be a private jet trip away.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

This is exactly how it is in Dubai. All the sheiks in Saudi Arabia live pious lives in their own country and then escape to Dubai to drink alcohol with their girlfriends.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago

Hopefully the rube that gets put in the dictator's position gets the memo. A true believer might get the idea that they're bound by the same religious bullshit as the rest of us.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh kind of like Catholicism was/is? Or Wahhabism? Or pretty much any religious movement that dabbles in politics.

[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

He isn't "conservative". He's a fascist.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Was Vance one of the blood boys?

[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Am I going to regret looking this up?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 months ago

It's pretty cool how an individual can essentially install their chosen candidate in offices of power. /s

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

Happens every election

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

More reading on the matter: https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

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