The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world

This piece argues that a rising political formation labeled "end times fascism" unites tech billionaires, reactionary political currents and security-minded elites around a plan to abandon Earth rather than fix it. Examples include Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rhetoric and lavish public spectacles - culminating in an attempted Venice wedding takeover - and the expansion of carbon-intensive data centres; Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s fantasies of cyberspace, seasteading and space settlement also illustrate the impulse to build escape routes and fortified enclaves for a select few. That political project treats planetary limits as a problem to evade, not a challenge to share, and it normalizes private bunkers, gated nations and techno-utopian futures that entrench inequality while accelerating ecological collapse.

The response documented here is grassroots: a “No Space for Bezos” campaign in Venice used street theatre, banners and direct pressure to force concessions, frame alternatives and link billionaire waste to broader harms such as housing precarity and militarism. Protesters demanded wealth redistribution, climate accountability and investments in living communities rather than billionaire getaways. The central contention is cosmological and moral: one side commits to staying, repairing and democratizing earthly life; the other organizes an escape hatch for the privileged. The struggle is portrayed as urgent and political, not merely cultural, requiring organized resistance to shore up the planet for everyone.