The Nerd Reich wants to destroy democracy, and its mask has slipped

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/the-nerd-reich-silicon-valley-fascism-war-on-democracy-abc-2026/107091034

"Billionaires have become radicalised against democracy," the American independent journalist Gil Durán tells the ABC.

"We have to realise how much power we have, and to stop being tuned out from the very real threat we face from a billionaire class that has gone off the edge of sanity into an altered reality.

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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 13d (10 replies)

Not Nerds but techbros, IMO.

alapakala@quokk.au · 5 pts · 12d (3 replies)

ABC is using “nerd” as an insult here.
They want us back in the lockers.

deadtom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12d (2 replies)

Abc.net.au. Article talks about Australlians ... Disney?

alapakala@quokk.au · 2 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Disney is the parent company of ABC, iirc'

deadtom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12d

Easy mistake to make, but no not at all affiliated with Disney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation

Snoopy@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 12d

Good point, i didn't notice it. Thank for correcting the article.

TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12d (4 replies)

Yeah but that doesn't fit the pun nearly as well

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 12d (3 replies)

That's just lazy and/or wrong then?

TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d (2 replies)

Not necessarily? Idk man, language evolves, the word "nerd" doesn't have the same meaning/connotations as it did 40 years ago, nor the same as it will have 40 years from now. Either way, my brain is fried from work so I'm just gonna sit this one out. Feel free to use my comment as a Strawman if you must

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 11d (1 reply)

I just think nerd isn't something bad in itself, today. That's it.

Have a good rest, cheers!

TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d

Thanks bro 🫂

tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 12d

Calling these dickheads nerds is an insult to nerds everywhere

alapakala@quokk.au · 8 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Anything to not call Nazis Nazis.

burido@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d

Doing that would be too rude for the media.