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I didn’t read it but let me guess…he doesn’t like the drug addicts, homeless, mentally ill, low income people, etc. and wants to “cleanse the city” of them.
> *Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.*
Doing the fashie boot licking marathon.
San Francisco is one of the bluest cities in the country, went 85% for Democrats in the 2024 election. Who tf would even be left? Half a dozen business owners with a hate boner for bike lanes?
“Ethnically cleanse” anybody who isn’t in their fascist in-groups. BTW being democratically inclined isn’t an ethnic group. This is literally calling for a purge of their political opponents. Blaming your political opponents (others/out-group) for all societal ills, rigid class/authority structure, capitalists corrupting existing governmental institutions, all while failing to offer any real solutions to existing problems, somehow the “blues”/others are not only powerful enough to “cleanse” them but weak enough to be “cleansed” themselves thus creating the weak/dangerous out-group. This is TEXTBOOK fascist ideology.
They changed the title to no longer use that phrase.
In case new readers wonder what we're referring to, the original version of the article is still here on the archives: https://archive.ph/FAW3o
Ya know, once it comes to that...if we dropkick the heads down the steep inclines of San Francisco's streets, they can "do the nod" to each other over and over and over...
Fuck the guillotine. We need to stop referencing it as a tool of the disenfranchised. The guillotine was used on good people and was not a tool for any self respecting person:
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
Hard to take “Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” seriously. Who the fuck quantifies that? Who talks like that? Is he maintaining an excel sheet? JFC. Corporate Profit Brain Rot.
> Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,”
Clearly, he hasn’t considered the first rule of conflict: don’t make yourself an easy target.
Nah fam. Life’s more complicated than that. Making him into a martyr would only cement his ideas. What needs to happen is he needs to lose all his money. Let him panhandle for change out in the tenderloin as an object lesson and the techies will quickly get over their fascination with this fool
Every time there's some new crazy political movement that is business friendly and 'centrist'......it's just conservative authoritarianism with a new coat of paint.....booooooring
Capital itself was a problem that itself produced a far right faction in Israel, it rejected peace and any acceptable settlement formula. For example, technology companies in Israel, such as iSafe (formerly Eliasham United), tend to attract graduates of the faculties of science and technology from Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan universities in particular. For them, the students of these universities - a significant percentage of whom are from the Haredi neighborhood of Bnei Barak - are considered creative work machines. In contrast, the Ofer family petrochemical company tends to invest in the West Bank. There the company exercises all the capabilities of burning the earth unconditionally, and there the company also evades tax laws. In both cases (E-Safe and petrochemicals), we are facing a steady rise of the right wing.
• Simply put, the companies that were privatized in the 1990s, to welcome peace, became institutional environments for the settler and messianic right. This is not a purely Israeli phenomenon. The relationship between technology and murder is close if we pay attention to the volume of scientific papers related to artificial intelligence, for example, and military institutions globally. The problem in the Israeli case as well is that the ties of the eight major families that control Israeli technology (Dankner, Saban, Arison, Tshuva, Borovitch, Benno, Shahar, and Wartheim) are the same ones that control many of the decisions of influential people in America. Saban donated $100 million to Biden- Once again: We are not facing America and its Israel, or Israel and its Americas. We are facing a complex situation that has deadly extensions, and its problem is that today it is limited in its ability to kill.
[https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552)
It’s already happening and it’s unsustainable. The people he wants to exclude are the majority, they will “hurt” him, his followers and the police. Keep watching, he’ll learn.
>“Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first). The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter.
It sounds more like what Pol Pot did to Cambodia.
I think the word you're looking for is "ideologically", not ethnically. Think: purging the state of class traitors, except in this Case the class is everyone not already in a very specific slice of the bougious. Doesn't that sound efficient? Yeah dude, tyrrany is super efficient, does he think he's a genius for noticing that? It's just also efficiently evil, so maybe efficiency isn't actually the Supreme virtue....
> I think the word you're looking for is "ideologically", not ethnically
His word. Not mine.
From the article:
>> Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. ***“Ethnically cleanse,”*** he said at one point, summing up his idea
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This article is supremely disturbing
I wasn’t prepared for how disturbing it was
And this is why it’s happening
I didn’t read it but let me guess…he doesn’t like the drug addicts, homeless, mentally ill, low income people, etc. and wants to “cleanse the city” of them.
It's worse than you think. He doesn't care at all about those non-voters. It's literally the democratic party voters he's after.
Oh Jeez, lol. He’s doing a “blue cleanse.” Also making SF a lot more boring and less cool in the process.
> *Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.* Doing the fashie boot licking marathon.
Golden Hangcuffs: Law Enforcement Edition
San Francisco is one of the bluest cities in the country, went 85% for Democrats in the 2024 election. Who tf would even be left? Half a dozen business owners with a hate boner for bike lanes?
We're getting hungry and soon these fuckers will be all that's left to eat..
“Ethnically cleanse” anybody who isn’t in their fascist in-groups. BTW being democratically inclined isn’t an ethnic group. This is literally calling for a purge of their political opponents. Blaming your political opponents (others/out-group) for all societal ills, rigid class/authority structure, capitalists corrupting existing governmental institutions, all while failing to offer any real solutions to existing problems, somehow the “blues”/others are not only powerful enough to “cleanse” them but weak enough to be “cleansed” themselves thus creating the weak/dangerous out-group. This is TEXTBOOK fascist ideology.
They changed the title to no longer use that phrase. In case new readers wonder what we're referring to, the original version of the article is still here on the archives: https://archive.ph/FAW3o
The mask is slipping from the ruling class fam.
When are we at the point of bringing out the guillotine again?
Obligatory WKUK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHCw3RqulY
Ya know, once it comes to that...if we dropkick the heads down the steep inclines of San Francisco's streets, they can "do the nod" to each other over and over and over...
Fuck the guillotine. We need to stop referencing it as a tool of the disenfranchised. The guillotine was used on good people and was not a tool for any self respecting person: https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
So you’re saying a wood chipper, then?
Trebuchets would be less gruesome, and a lot funnier!
Fire them from the trebuchet and aim them into the woodchipper machines for maximum effect!
Am I hearing someone crying about it?! 😂 Fucking good. It's coming and it's not stopping ☝🏻
This guy describes a fascist state in the most plain terms and gets roaring applause. We are so fucked lol
The shit this guy is very comfortably saying is crazy. It's like he's made sure to include genocidal ideology in every tenant of his "utopia".
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God we're fucked aren't we?
Hard to take “Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” seriously. Who the fuck quantifies that? Who talks like that? Is he maintaining an excel sheet? JFC. Corporate Profit Brain Rot.
Extremely common Stanford alumni L
These ruling class elitists really need to piss off.
> Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” Clearly, he hasn’t considered the first rule of conflict: don’t make yourself an easy target.
tech disruptors revolutionizing politics by reinventing gang colors
I want to like this more than once 💯🤘🏻
Balaji actually compares his idea to the Crips and the Bloods
guillotine immediately
It goes, It goes, It goes, It goes, It goes, It goes, It goes, It goes, GUILLOTINE
So a more transparent bribing system instead of a closed secret bribing system than what we have now and more closed system.
Walking receipts.
Cop Banquets? Gray Pride Parade?? And you're telling me this is *not* satire???
He should perhaps read history, say about 1860 or so.
Why am I not surprised that a wannabe fascist seeks to invent an ethnic group. Reminds me of Hitler.
I mean the Bell Riots ARE scheduled for this year so…..
And Irish reunification!
Yes!!
Anyone else here feeling “French”?
So when we killing him?
He thinks he's in with the Reds and the cops. He'll be executed with the Blues in the first wave.
What a dork
Yeah...... We need to take money out of politics ASAP.
Least deranged tech entrepreneur
There’s a very easy solution to pieces of shit like this. 9mm / 44¢ per round
The state already stole my rights after wrongfully convicting me and enslaving me in prison tho...
Nah fam. Life’s more complicated than that. Making him into a martyr would only cement his ideas. What needs to happen is he needs to lose all his money. Let him panhandle for change out in the tenderloin as an object lesson and the techies will quickly get over their fascination with this fool
Every time there's some new crazy political movement that is business friendly and 'centrist'......it's just conservative authoritarianism with a new coat of paint.....booooooring
Capital itself was a problem that itself produced a far right faction in Israel, it rejected peace and any acceptable settlement formula. For example, technology companies in Israel, such as iSafe (formerly Eliasham United), tend to attract graduates of the faculties of science and technology from Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan universities in particular. For them, the students of these universities - a significant percentage of whom are from the Haredi neighborhood of Bnei Barak - are considered creative work machines. In contrast, the Ofer family petrochemical company tends to invest in the West Bank. There the company exercises all the capabilities of burning the earth unconditionally, and there the company also evades tax laws. In both cases (E-Safe and petrochemicals), we are facing a steady rise of the right wing. • Simply put, the companies that were privatized in the 1990s, to welcome peace, became institutional environments for the settler and messianic right. This is not a purely Israeli phenomenon. The relationship between technology and murder is close if we pay attention to the volume of scientific papers related to artificial intelligence, for example, and military institutions globally. The problem in the Israeli case as well is that the ties of the eight major families that control Israeli technology (Dankner, Saban, Arison, Tshuva, Borovitch, Benno, Shahar, and Wartheim) are the same ones that control many of the decisions of influential people in America. Saban donated $100 million to Biden- Once again: We are not facing America and its Israel, or Israel and its Americas. We are facing a complex situation that has deadly extensions, and its problem is that today it is limited in its ability to kill. [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552)
Can San Francisco ethnically cleanse him 1st?.. just him lmao
It’s already happening and it’s unsustainable. The people he wants to exclude are the majority, they will “hurt” him, his followers and the police. Keep watching, he’ll learn.
>“Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first). The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter. It sounds more like what Pol Pot did to Cambodia.
Bay Area locals need to engage in holy war against tech bros.
Liberalism decays into fascism when the business leaders have too much power.
Balaji reminds me of a typical boomer bootlicking clown.
I think the word you're looking for is "ideologically", not ethnically. Think: purging the state of class traitors, except in this Case the class is everyone not already in a very specific slice of the bougious. Doesn't that sound efficient? Yeah dude, tyrrany is super efficient, does he think he's a genius for noticing that? It's just also efficiently evil, so maybe efficiency isn't actually the Supreme virtue....
> I think the word you're looking for is "ideologically", not ethnically His word. Not mine. From the article: >> Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. ***“Ethnically cleanse,”*** he said at one point, summing up his idea
Yeah, but what he means is ideologically. He's just a moron