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user-inactivated  ·  1821 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The hummingbirds were dying. Cockroaches were everywhere. And then Steve Bannon showed up.

Robert Mercer isn't a one-issue guy, he's one of those social conservatives who go crazier and crazier working in the tech industry because libertarians are acceptable in tech circles but women in the kitchen, gays in the closet conservatives are very much not. If he were a decade or two younger he would have been writing ridiculously long blog posts about how a return to feudalism would solve all our problems or sending manifestos to Google's HR department.