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About
Rockbridge Network
From
Wikipedia:
"The Rockbridge Network was founded in 2019 by JD Vance and Chris Buskirk. According to The New York Times, the organization started to form when "Buskirk began informally hosting a series of small dinners with the hopes of laying groundwork for Mr. Vance’s political career and, eventually, of building a Trump-aligned alternative to the Koch Network.
Rockbridge was reportedly named after Rockbridge, Ohio, where one of these early meetings was held in a resort. The group held its first official summit in Arizona in 2021.
The group was first reported on in 2022 by The New York Times, after it held a meeting at Mar-a-Lago. At that meeting, Buskirk, Omeed Malik, and Rebekah Mercer reportedly "started discussing how to finance a 'parallel economy' of conservative businesses", and this discussion led to the founding of 1789 Capital.
According to The New York Times, Rockbridge "steers" eight organizations, "including four dark-money 501©(4) organizations, two super PACs, a donor-advised 501©(3) fund for nonprofit activity and the Rockbridge Network umbrella organization, an LLC.
Buskirk's super PAC, Turnout for America, raised over $25 million in 2024. The Washington Post reported that, as of November 2025, none of the Rockbridge groups had their own websites or much of a public footprint."
AI Overview:
"Rockbridge Network is a secretive donor organization co-founded by J.D. Vance and Chris Buskirk that serves as a bridge between Silicon Valley tech wealth and conservative politics. The network is heavily populated by crypto-industry leaders and focuses on policies that favor the digital asset sector.
The network consists of approximately 150–200 members, many of whom are millionaires and venture capitalists from the cryptocurrency business world.
Rockbridge has actively lobbied for the deregulation of the tech and finance sectors. A primary goal is to weaken the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reduce federal oversight of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.
Prominent members and event attendees include crypto luminary Erik Voorhees and investor Omeed Malik. Donald Trump Jr., who has also expressed significant interest in the crypto industry, is a frequent participant and partner in affiliated ventures like 1789 Capital.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, co-founders of the crypto exchange Gemini and investors of Praxis Nation, are members and "megadonors" of the Rockbridge Network. This is a secretive venture capital-style political organization.
The twins are part of an invite-only group of fewer than 200 high-net-worth individuals.
In 2025, membership cost $100,000 for "limited partners" and $1,000,000 for "principal partners".
Other members include Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, and Donald Trump Jr. "
Rockbridge Co-founder Chris Buskirk includes the abbreviation "e/acc" after his name on
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What e/acc means:
"Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a pro-technology ideology that rejects democratic oversight, viewing unrestricted technological advancement (especially AI) as the primary drivers for solving human problems, often dismissing democratic governance, regulations, and social concerns as obstacles
While e/acc is newer, it shares roots with older accelerationist ideas that also aimed to collapse existing systems, though often through violent or extremist means, contrasting sharply with democratic ideals.
Core Tenets of E/acc:
Anti-Democracy: Sees democratic deliberation as inefficient and seeks to replace it with a system driven by tech innovation and private sector power
Techno-Utopianism: Aims for a future of technological marvels, often contrasting with "doomers" who fear AI's risk
While Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) primarily focuses on rapid technological growth, its broader roots and certain extremist variations are explicitly linked to hastening the collapse of democratic institutions.
Anti-Democratic Origins:
A primary influence on right-wing accelerationism, Nick Land, argues that democracy restricts freedom and accountability. He advocates for "CEO-run states" and the rejection of egalitarianism.
Tactics for Accelerating Collapse:
Inciting Civil Discord: Proponents often favor "stochastic violence" or acts of terrorism to trigger wider social unrest and civil war.
Weaponizing Chaos: Accelerationists may exploit public crises, such as pandemics or protests, to recruit members and further delegitimize existing governments.
Extreme Voting: Some advocates suggest voting for the most extreme candidates to intensify internal political contradictions and hasten institutional failure.
Effective Accelerationism and "Dark Enlightenment" (TDE) are intertwined online ideologies:
e/acc pushes tech-driven, rapid progress (often towards an AI singularity) to break current systems, while Dark Enlightenment is a neo-reactionary (NRx) philosophy seeing the Enlightenment's end as inevitable collapse, favoring technocratic hierarchies over democracy, with both often converging in advocating radical tech-driven societal transformation, though e/acc is more purely about speeding progress and TDE about a new (non-democratic) order after the "failed" modern era.
Dark Enlightenment (Neo-Reaction, NRx)Core Idea: A rejection of Enlightenment ideals, democracy, and liberalism, seeing them as leading to decay and inefficiency.
Focus: Proposes a return to hierarchical, even monarchical, systems, but run by efficient technocrats or "engineers".
Goal: A technologically advanced, but rigidly structured, society where elites manage progress, often seen as an "exit" from messy politics.
Ideological Overlap: The movement is often called "technocratic monarchism" because it advocates for a government run like a corporation by a "CEO-monarch".
Rockbridge has been associated with these ideas because high-profile members and associates, including Vance and Peter Thiel, have publicly cited Yarvin as an intellectual influence."
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It all sounds really cool and exciting except for the part where they want to do away with Democracy and replace it with Technocratic Monarchism
