When I first read your comment, I knew that DOGE was going to be more real than your seemed to realize. After all, there was Project 2025 and it spelled out that that Trump should drastically reduce people power everywhere across the bureaucracy. I also knew that Trump gave a fuck about legalities and that his goal would be to lead autocratically (he literally said the thing about being a first-day dictator).
Here's the things I didn't know:
I saw the comments about "President Musk" but I didn't realize that it would actually be true.
I had no idea DOGE would simply close down entire federal agencies within weeks.
I had no idea that they would go right to the office that processes payments and slash everyone's funding. Or that you could be brazen enough to just email the people of entire agencies "there's a fork in the road, go resign".
I hadn't heard of network states or accelerationism. I'd mostly forgotten the name Curtis Yarvin and I'd missed that the libertarian idea of "seasteading" had morphed (and I'd only seen it presented to me as comedy, as part of the series Silicon Valley where one character [who was transparently modeled after Peter Thiel] built an artificial island).
