Posted on 08/26/2023 8:40:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Some of the biggest and richest names in the tech and finance worlds are reported to be investors in a secrecy-cloaked company that has been buying up large tracts of the San Francisco Bay Area, apparently in a quest to create an entirely new city.
Quoting three unnamed sources, The New York Times reported that backers of the firm called Flannery Associates include venture capitalists Michael Mortiz, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Cue co-founder Daniel Gross, and Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
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Wasn’t this tried multiple times in the 1800s?
George Floyd International. This is where all the reparations former slaves will be going to live when they get their 5 million and annual 250K salaries for 250 years. Gonna Be called Reparations City.
Earthquake.
They’re probably bothered by having to see all those pesky mentally ill, homeless people on the streets of the existing “public” cities and want to set up some kind of members only gated community where only the properly vetted can mix.
Well, let’s see, they’re destroying the city of S.F as we speak. What, whey want to do it again somewhere else?
Good point. No one will give up their ICE vehicles and private jets, whatever else they think they’re doing to Save Da Erf.
It's weird how the illustrations of Ilium from Vonnegut's "Player Piano" have been memory holed from the internet.
I see a world like Judge Dredd and
Soilent Green.
will they get MAGIC DEMOCRAT PERMITS that let them do what ever is needed to do???
or will it die in a sea of redtape like a regular person...
will they get MAGIC DEMOCRAT PERMITS that let them do what ever is needed to do???
or will it die in a sea of redtape like a regular person...
Drive the real estate prices down with intentional bad policies.
Then bring in new law and order management.
Hell of a deal!
Well said. Yes it was. Even before that, at Roanoke, I think.
In the 1800’s, starting from New York, that’s where all the crazy stuff like Mormons and Seventh Day Adventist’s and Millerites, and whatever, came from. But I digress. I don’t care about that much, but, yeah, you are correct.
Big developers love regulations.
Perfect for teams of lawyers and facilitators.
Crushes the little guy who can’t afford it
More like Demolition Man.
How dare Mormons and SDAs try to rebuild a city back better. Who do they think they are?
I say good, do it. Maybe it’ll clean up all the filth and restore things back to normal.
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