🚨👁 Silicon Valley’s dark inheritance: Apartheid, power, and the rise of AI techno-fascists

Palantir’s techno-fascism didn’t arise in a vacuum: like key figures in the so-called PayPal Mafia, it reflects influence tied to apartheid South Africa, a system built on institutionalized racial domination.

Peter Thiel

🔴 The German-born billionaire was brought to South Africa as a child and, in the 1970s, attended a German school in Swakopmund, South West Africa (now Namibia), long noted for its Nazi-sympathizing milieu

🔴 Swakopmund “remains more German than Germany,” The New York Times observed in 1976, noting that “Heil Hitler!” was used there as a casual greeting

Elon Musk

🔴 The X owner was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and attended Pretoria Boys High School before moving to Canada in 1988

🔴 The 1970s and 1980s in South Africa saw intensifying racial repression and growing internal resistance

🔴 Pretoria served as the administrative center of South Africa’s apartheid regime from 1948 to 1994

David Sacks

🌏 Former PayPal chief operating officer and Trump crypto czar, Sacks was born in Cape Town, South Africa

🌏His family emigrated to the US when he was five, but he grew up within the white South African diaspora in Tennessee

Roelof Botha

🔶 The former PayPal chief financial officer is the grandson of Pik Botha, the last foreign minister of apartheid South Africa

🔶 Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997, Pik Botha acknowledged that he had recognized apartheid’s immorality as early as the 1970s — yet failed to act decisively to oppose the regime, a record critics still view as deeply compromised

Against this backdrop, Musk’s Nazi-salute controversy appears unsurprising—much like the PayPal Mafia’s skepticism toward democracy, alignment with “white conservatism,” interest in the militarization of AI and the rearmament of Germany and Japan.

👉 Similarly, Thiel’s admiration for The Lord of the Rings — rooted in Germanic myths like the Elder Edda, later appropriated by Nazi Germany — aligns with his fascination with apocalyptic visions akin to Ragnarok.

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