it's so cool how every Claremont dipshit (including Vance) reads Strauss's reflection on Xenophon's Hiero and doesn't realize Trump is exactly who Xenophon was talking about
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There’s a lot of that going ‘round. Like how many of them love Tolkien yet model their lives on Saruman. (Or Gríma.)
aug 11, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
motherfucker i read the classical political rationalist tradition and it leads me to hate you
aug 11, 2025, 3:54 pm • 76 5 • view
the entire classical and modern political tradition was designed around 'how do we stop tyrants' and we moderns were like "maybe we're built different"
aug 11, 2025, 3:56 pm • 95 12 • view
I think many of them were like "I'll pay any cost to harm these people I've been told I must hate. Hey, a tyrant could harm them!"
aug 11, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
not only are these people foolish and cruel, they are blatantly misreading my favorite books.
aug 11, 2025, 4:01 pm • 56 9 • view
drives me absolutely bonkers, partly because it's hard to distinguish between cynicism and cognitive dissonance. And idiocy.
aug 11, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
leave Chris Claremont out of this
sep 1, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
maybe it's a "don't invent the torment nexus" situation
aug 11, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view