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Religions act like governments - their first inherent preference is stability. SV ideology is explicitly anti-stability, exemplified by the phrase “move fast and break things”.


Worth paying attention to whose things are being broken and whose things are being reinforced as a result.


The social order was never on the table for breaking. SV depends on banking and state violence for enforcement just as any other wealthy businesspeople do.

A brief study of the history of SV will show you that it was actually the US military (and its money) that is in many ways responsible for creating the culture of groundbreaking that exists there to date.


This is why civilians can't have nukes.




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