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tugomer:

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• He has funded both Trump and Breitbart, with Steve Bannon often acting as his mouthpiece.
  

• He “hates” the Federal Reserve, considers himself a libertarian capitalist (so a randian objectivist), and often rants about elites.
  

• Is responsible for many of the bot sockpuppet accounts spreading fashy misinformation on twitter (some experts say there may be millions just in Trump’s immediate orbit.)
  

This is… not good. It seems likely to me this guy is a fascist and is using his money to fund an artificially constructed fascist movement. Like Mosley meets the Wizard of Oz.

A billionaire who hates elites….

I think it’s coded talk about the NWO “central bank” conspiracy theory. 

There is a history of rich technocratic gentiles like Henry Ford who believe that Jewish people control the central banks of many countries across the world and coordinate with each other to manipulate their governments. (If it needs to be said this is obviously not true.)

As might be imagined, this is not only a popular conspiracy theory among modern white supremacists and ethnonationalists, but historically was part of the Nazi’s antisemitic narrative, used in part to “justify” the holocaust.

Tirades against the Federal Reserve and accusations of “political elitism” are often features of people who believe in this conspiracy in the modern day.

Before I understood all the implications I had a friend who believed these things and talked about them often. These phrases and ideas came up often as well. 

We’re not friends anymore.

Robert Mercer is a wacky libertarian conspiracy theorist who would spend all of his time on some economics subreddit screaming about how fiat money is unconstitutional were it not for his obscene wealth. He, like many other Silicon Valley/Wall Street anti-social white men (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Ted Cruz et al.), was able to profit off of his one skill of reducing complex real-life problems to abstract mathematical models [translation and trading algorithms in his case] enough to become vastly overconfident in his own intellectual abilities, yet did not develop his emotional and social life enough to realise that other people were also capable of forming complex thoughts. This unique blend of capacity for abstraction and emotional immaturity lends itself well to the computerisation and financialisation era, which is why he is fabulously rich, but it also tends to cause a dysfunctional relationship with reality as these people’s sense of self-worth (which hinges entirely on their perception of themselves as geniuses) is constantly challenged by inadequate recognition of said genius from the greater public.

Robert Mercer, for his part, seems to cope with this problem by believing that ~the government~ is trying to supress his own genius and the genius of people like him in order to stay in power, not just by excluding him from the circle of power, but by actively manipulating the public with fake science. (Either that, or he is a completely rational person who has decided that the best way to achieve his goal of eliminating the government was to fund people who fit the above description.) At some point or the other, libertarianism inevitably finds common cause with fascism via their mutual love of eugenics and the belief that human life has no intrinsic value, but fascists and libertarians have fundamentally different (and occasionally contradicting) underlying beliefs and motivations.

His most high-profile political effort before the 2016 presidential election was his long-time support for the Oregon “scientist”/Republican Art Robinson, who denies evolution is a thing, believes limiting greenhouse gases would actualy harm the environment, thinks public education is child abuse, wants to dump radioactive waste on cities to prolong people’s lifespans, thinks HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, and stores thousands of samples of human urine in some shed in Oregon, hoping to unlock the secret to a longer lifespan (Robert Mercer also funds this research, which has never undergone peer review).

Robert Mercer appears to earnestly share many of Robinsons’s beliefs, like the idea that radiation is beneficial to humans (he has reportedly and apparently completely seriously claimed that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the Japanese healthier). He has also funded a TON of other fringe, and frankly, disturbing causes and organisations (Jane Mayer’s article and this Zachary Mider piece detail most of his other completely batshit beliefs and endeavours, but to sum up, he’s essentially a human version of a random conspiracy theory generator whose two passion projects seem to be the return to the gold standard and Clinton conspiracy theories.)

It should be noted that Donald Trump wasn’t Robert Mercer’s first choice in the Republican primaries – he bankrolled Ted Cruz’s campaign all the way until Cruz (who seems to be much closer to Mercer ideologically) dropped out, with Donald Trump becoming the only Republican candidate left standing. Mercer then used the void left by Manafort’s resignation to get some of his allies in top positions in the Trump campaign (notably, Steve Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway, who ran Ted Cruz’s superPAC funded with Mercer’s money) and then tried to leverage his support for the Trump campaign to get his way on his pet political issues (with mixed success). So he isn’t an ethnonationalist per se, just a delusional libertarian who has no qualms about aligning himself with whoever promises to roll back the state as much as possible.

Thank you for all this!

But also fukkin wow. Holy shit.

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