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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Late last year it was reported that Andreessen invested in a VC fund that aims to create a “Christian enclave in Kentucky.” The firm, New Founding, has also announced plans to create an alternate economy for conservatives and has called leftists “anti-human.” /5 www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

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may 13, 2025, 7:32 pm • 123 25

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Barry Gott @bazgott.bsky.social

Making a ‘Christian enclave in Kentucky’ is like making a pond in Lake Superior

may 13, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Andreessen reportedly hosts a vast universe of group chats with tech execs and political influencers. They’ve included white supremacist Richard Hanania, right-wing provocateur Chris Rufo, alleged fraudster Tyler Winklevoss, Tucker Carlson, and more. /6

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Semafor calls Andreessen a “nuclear reactor who powered many groups.” In some chats, “executives commiserated about how to handle employee demands that they … declare that ‘Black Lives Matter’ or support policies they didn’t actually believe in around transgender rights.” /7

From Semafor: To the degree these chats strayed into politics, two participants said, they rarely mentioned Donald Trump. They revolved around the specific political challenges of Silicon Valley’s leaders: In the chats, executives commiserated about how to handle employee demands that they, for instance, declare that “Black Lives Matter” or support policies they didn’t actually believe in around transgender rights. And they strategized about how to defeat San Francisco’s progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin. In an essay on his blog, Group Chats Rule the World, Krishnan described how “every group chat usually has one or two people that like to talk… a lot. They are critical: you need the provocateurs who inject new ideas consistently. However, almost all of them have a tendency to dominate these groups.” Andreessen was a nuclear reactor who powered many groups. Srinivasan was another. A good community-builder, Krishnan wrote, would act as a “cooling rod,” preventing meltdown. Someone who sat next to Andreessen at a conference during this period recalled watching with awe as he flipped on his phone from group chat to group chat, responding and engaging with manic speed.
may 13, 2025, 7:34 pm • 102 12 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Historian Rick Perlstein met Andreessen in 2017. Last year, Perlstein wrote that Andreessen—referring to people who never left their hometowns like he did—told him something like “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.” /8 prospect.org/power/2024-0...

I brought up the ordinary comforts of kinship, friendship, craft, memory, legend, lore, skills passed down across generations, and other benefits that small towns provide: things that make human beings human beings. I pointed out that there must be something in the kind of places he grew up in worth preserving. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life … And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it. “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.” I’m taking the liberty of putting it in quotation marks, though I can’t be sure those were his exact words. Marc, if you’re reading, feel free to get in touch and refresh my memory. Maybe he said “quiescent,” or “docile,” or maybe “powerless.” Something, certainly, along those lines.
may 13, 2025, 7:35 pm • 117 22 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

In February, Andreessen’s firm a16z hired Daniel Penny, whose only real qualification for the job appeared to be strangling a homeless Black man on the New York City subway. /9 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/t...

may 13, 2025, 7:36 pm • 130 27 • view
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Patty Read Project 2025 @handi817.bsky.social

Holy shit!

may 13, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Despite how out of step Andreessen’s views are with normal people, he has a massive amount of political influence. For example: - He interviewed people for DOGE - Three a16z employees are now Trump officials - He recently headlined a fundraising event for Sen. Ruben Gallego

Fortune article: Sriram Krishnan, Brian Quintenz, and Scott Kupor all now work for the Trump administration. Rolling Stone: Dem Overseeing ‘Digital Assets’ to Hold Luxury Retreat With Crypto Kingpin Ruben Gallego, Arizona’s new senator, is set to hold a fundraising weekend with Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen and blogger Matt Yglesias
may 13, 2025, 7:39 pm • 108 19 • view
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Héctor @hectoralonso.bsky.social

may 13, 2025, 10:14 pm • 18 0 • view
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Jay @johlm.bsky.social

send him back to Remulak!

may 13, 2025, 10:50 pm • 8 0 • view
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dirk diggler @realbillhicks.bsky.social

hell yea these are my people

may 13, 2025, 11:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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annie23.bsky.social @annie23.bsky.social

Thank you for your exhaustion review of these dangerous, fasciitis. Their world views and influence are truly frightening and appalling

may 13, 2025, 8:21 pm • 12 0 • view
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Lady Ang @ladyang1905.bsky.social

I don’t like to see that from my senator…I would love to say this socks me but I don’t like to lie.

may 28, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

Andreessen has also advised the Trump administration on tech and economic policy, and Andreessen’s business partner, Ben Horowitz, is in Riyadh with Trump *right now* /11 bsky.app/profile/artc...

may 13, 2025, 7:41 pm • 68 17 • view
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social

We get it, he’s rich. But politicians, pundits, political appointees, and people in general should not take cues from Marc Andreessen. His worldview is abhorrent and bears no relationship to the views of everyday Americans. /end

may 13, 2025, 7:42 pm • 102 14 • view
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Patty Read Project 2025 @handi817.bsky.social

Still, he is part of the Team 🐙 see my pinned. This coup is extremely well planned and fast! They will get to the violence soon if we don't WTFU!!

may 13, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patty Read Project 2025 @handi817.bsky.social

Wow, great job!

may 13, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social

Sadly. America has been captured by kleptocracy and the worldview of everyday Americans doesn't matter anymore.

may 13, 2025, 9:41 pm • 13 0 • view
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•[ KFJ ]• @kafeja.bsky.social

During the period of Brazil’s far-right Bolsonaro government, it became evident that the appropriate term to describe such governance was “kakistocracy” — rule by the least qualified or most unscrupulous. The term applies to the United States as well.

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Mela Eckenfels @felicea.bsky.social

📌 #MarcAndreesen #a26z #fascism

may 16, 2025, 7:06 am • 0 1 • view
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James Somebody @jololikejazz.bsky.social

Jesus Christ the Ruben Gallego thing is dark

may 14, 2025, 3:55 pm • 2 0 • view