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In the novel Snow Crash, the residents of the white-supremacist micro-state franchises visit other places because they have no non-whites to attack at home.
is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?
Actually, yes, pretty much.
Amazing novel though.
There was an SNL skit a while ago with a similar vibe. A bunch of white nationalists having a meeting and one guys describing his vision for a white utopia and the other guy is like "yeah I just got back from Vermont and it really sounds like you're describing Vermont"