Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference
Manifest, the conference for the prediction market website Manifold, got in hot water for inviting racists and eugenicists in previous years. Not much has changed in 2025.
🎶 Substack, David Shor, Nate Silver, Noahpinion,
Dick Hanania, bathrobe from Aella
We didn't start the fire 🎶
🎶 We didn't start the fire
We just tried to profit
From our own new market
We didn't start the fire
Though I see why we might've
I did not ignite it 🎶
I struggle to think of a good reason why such prominent figures in politics and tech would associate themselves with such an event.
There is no good reason, but there is an obvious bad one: these prominent figures have racist sympathies (if they aren't "outright" racist themselves) and in between a lack of empathy and position of privilege don't care about the negative effects of boosting racist influencers.
There comes a point when "they are themselves racist AF" becomes the simplest explanation for so many things.