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Matthew Gault

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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We’re living in a bizarre age of technofascism. The richest man who has ever lived, a man who dreams of colonizing Mars with his children, is America’s CEO. Donald Trump, the man people voted for, is just the chairman of the board.

What does Elon Musk believe? Is there a playbook for DOGE? How bad are things going to get? On this episode of Angry Planet journalist Gil Duran, author of The Nerd Reich newsletter, walks us through what’s coming.

Over on The Shatter Zone, journalist and former Angry Planet guest Robert Evans has published a document that Democratic think tanks are passing around. It gives extra context to Duran’s reporting. All the major players and themes we talk about in this episode are there: Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, the Butterfly Effect.

If you want to understand why so many federal workers are getting fired and the Silicon Valley ideology that’s infected D.C., then give us a listen.

Curtis Yarvin’s unimpressive programming career
“Democracy doesn’t work”
Bullshit and cherries
RAGE and Reboot
The Chairman of the Board
It’s always about the money
“Move fast and break things” comes to D.C.
The Engineer’s Disease
Nick Land is mentioned and I’m sorry
“Trump is more intellectual property than man.”
The horror of comedy
Selling the Nerd Reich to the Religious Right

The Nerd Reich

AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs

Trump’s AI Gaza Video Is the Tip of a Horrifying ‘Gaz-A-Lago’ Iceberg

Techno-Fascism Comes to America

Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

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0:52.5	Hello and welcome to another conversation about conflict on an angry planet. I am Matthew Gault. I am here with Jason Fields. Jason, how are you feeling?
1:01.5	How do you feel when the apocalypse rolls around? I mean, you know, better and worse. It's just a time of great change. It's fine. It's fine. Most of us will get to the other side of this. It's only been 30 days. You know, maybe the best is ahead of us.
1:18.9	Sure. So I wanted, so I've been wanting to do this episode specifically for a long time. And we've kind of touched around the edges of it over the
1:28.6	few years. We had a guy come on and talk about kind of Peter Thiel's biography. And we talked
1:34.8	about Curtis Yarvin a little bit in there. But I've been thinking a lot lately about how
1:42.2	we kind of have this rubric,
1:45.6	these rubrics from history we use to explain,
1:49.0	like the current moment.
1:53.0	The ones that kind of, that we lean on,
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