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  • These guys have a very strange set of political beliefs. You need to have a peculiar and narrow definition of freedom to reach this conclusion:

    the neoreactionary movement, whose adherents believe β€” as Thiel wrote in 2009 β€” that freedom and democracy are incompatible and that democratic governments and bloated federal bureaucracies should be replaced by enlightened autocratic regimes

    Presumably Thiel thinks he, or another of his ilk, would be the enlightened supreme leader…

  • I do wonder if they’re not so much in favour of autocracy per se, but more that they know there’s no way of installing their preferred libertarian system through any sort of democratic process.

    I guess that’s why it’s a nebulous strongman they allude to, but don’t go on to describe in detail the specific bureaucracy or system necessary for their model society. In any case, that would go against their libertarianism, so they’re just stuck being elite reactionaries in a political and theoretical dead end.