“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal. When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade, they systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America,” Andreesseen wrote, according to the report.

“They declared war on 70% of the country and now they’re going to pay the price.”

The rapid-fire blast of texts were sent to a WhatsApp group used by Trump officials to discuss AI policy with tech leaders and academics, according to the Washington Post.

Andreessen deleted many of the messages after sending them, according to screenshots and two members of the text chat who spoke to the newspaper.

In the group chat, Andreessen allegedly called for the National Science Foundation, an independent government agency that funds research, to receive “the bureaucratic death penalty.”

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      The rapid-fire blast of texts were sent to a WhatsApp group used by Trump officials to discuss AI policy with tech leaders and academics, according to the Washington Post.

      This isn’t a rant. This is policy.

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      I remember when rich white fascist dudes tended to keep their stupid fucking opinions to themselves, and only worked to ruin humanity behind the scenes. Those were the days.

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    Billionaires like to target anyone they feel like in order to engineer society to their liking.

    This is based on the faulty premise that they themselves are also playing pieces on the board, and therefore not exempt from being victimized by any of the actions that they inflict on others.

    As it turns out, people wo are not Billionaires also have ideas about how society should be run, and who needs to be crushed to make that happen.

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    He’s saying the base has stupid children who have no chance of competing when illegal discrimination is taken away? I mean even if you ban immigrants and minorities, elite schools aren’t going to fix your barely functional brats no matter how much money you dump on them. And who is going to put up with TAing all those classes if only rich white people show up? Immigrants and broke grad students are the backbone of the freshman course load! You think tenured professors show up for those 8 pm intro level lectures and labs? Right.

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    Education at all levels should be freely available to everyone who wants it. While billionaire oligarchs hoard unfathomable sums of our social wealth, they limit and ration our opportunities for education on certain arbitrary bases. Expropriate capital and make the former capitalist live at an equal level to the rest of society.