Marc Andreessen

Also, by the way, the companies that worked with them, you know, did they, you know, what did they know of what was happening?

And so I, you know, I do wonder whether there's like a, you know, I wonder whether over time what we're going to discover is this was a, you know, sort of sprawling network, you know, of which there's, you know, a legal, the legal term would be conspiracy, you know, that was going on around this.

And so I think this needs to be fully undressed.

You know, look, the other thing is, you know, this raises the obvious question is, were they the only one?

And so there's a variety of these groups that had, you know, degrees of the kind of power that I was talking about and, you know, tremendous amounts of funding along the way and the ability to basically, again, direct some combination of state and government or state and private sector, you know, sort of obliteration raise at American citizens.

Um, there have been rumors for years, you know, on, I mean, there's been rumors for years on this.

There's been, by the way, there's been incidents like this in the past.

Like, you know, this isn't the first time this has happened.

Um, but you know, if, if, if, if, if, if the allegations are true and the SPLC was doing it, I think it raises the very direct question of like, okay, who else, who else is doing it?

It's hard to believe they were the only one.

Um, and so who else was doing it?

And then, yeah.

And then we're back to our AstroTurfing thing, um, which is, yeah, we're, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're, they're constructing the boogeyman, um, you know, that, that, that they claim to be fighting.

And by the way, and this is where you get into the sort of self-interest component of it, this is where you get back to the suicidal empathy thing, which is like, okay, how suicidal is it if you're the anti-KKK group to fund the KKK?

Like, I don't know, maybe it's suicidal if people find out about it, but if they don't find out about it, like, that's like the opposite of suicidal because, like, wow, like, you know, wouldn't you like to get to, like, if your group's entire purpose for existing is to fight an enemy, then you need to make sure that that enemy exists.

To do that, of course, you would fund them.

Um, and so, yeah, you, you, I don't know, what is that?

That's like the reverse of the snake eating the tail.

Um, it's the, um, you know, sort of a, you know, you're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Um, and so, yeah, I mean, look, we're gonna, I mean, this all needs to be ventilated.