I just can't help but note how incredibly intellectually disqualifying it is for anyone to have been in that room while Yarvin said that thing and not immediately either call him a wicked fool or walk out.
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Not a lot of wattage there between then all
aug 28, 2025, 7:36 am • 0 0 • view
In my second book, one of the ways I showed that the bad guy was a bad guy was that he was a Yarvin fan. He's *so* amazingly shit, and Vance just laps it up.
aug 27, 2025, 7:52 pm • 5 0 • view
I swear where we’re at right now is because a bunch of robber barons resent FDR’s New Deal and are mad they never got to own slaves and run a plantation. So they’re dead set on undoing 250 years of progress by using their wealth to drive the majority of Americans into abject poverty so they can.
aug 27, 2025, 7:51 pm • 23 2 • view
aug 28, 2025, 12:23 am • 4 0 • view
First, of course, because the proposal is immoral, amounting to the imposition of serfdom in a modern society, but also because it is incredibly stupid. Who holds your minister-feudal-lords to account? Who keeps unscrupulous lord-ministers from robbing, raping their new serfs?
aug 27, 2025, 7:37 pm • 184 13 • view
No one. That's the attraction.
aug 28, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
Do you believe he would object to that?
aug 28, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
We need a media ecosystem that can tag the GOP with the views of these reactionary freaks, the way the MSM is able to attribute every fringe weirdo with "leftish vibes" to the Dems. Blake Masters wanted to deport like 90 million people a few days ago, there needs to a political penalty to this!
aug 27, 2025, 7:40 pm • 13 1 • view
What system holds the lord-ministers accountable to their duties? And while we're here, what systems holds their *serfs* so accountable? Actual feudal lords had *armies* and couldn't maintain their hold on the peasantry in the face of industrialization. Is the lord-minister gonna have an army?
aug 27, 2025, 7:39 pm • 147 13 • view
He is gonna have personalized surveillance devices. Enforcement goes from dirty looks to murder.
aug 28, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
I think that’s why they really want AI drones and networked fingerprint-reading guns, so they can use push-button violence. It’s madness. There are plenty of occasions where a revolution without guns topples a regime even in the face of violence.
aug 27, 2025, 7:46 pm • 12 1 • view
Again, the answer is "an army" in the sense that he wants the Pentagon to help create the robots. And yes, anyone who wants that level of tech but also wants human slaves is planning to rape them.
aug 28, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
"Thank God you're finally here, jackbooted thugs wearing... uh... slightly modified mall-cop uniforms. My new serf, who told me his name was 'Phil Eightmee,' fled my property this morning! It took me 6 hours to notice because he put his air tag on a Roomba and I thought he was just being thorough."
aug 27, 2025, 7:50 pm • 12 1 • view
The answer, of course, is that Yarvin imagines a federal-level totalitarian system keeping these folks in place, a racially defined slave class subordinated to elect local pitbosses backed by jackbooted thugs, but make him *say* that and then observe the horror of such a system.
aug 27, 2025, 7:40 pm • 167 18 • view
Instead, the next guy is, 'neato, I guess we'll also have to repeal the 14th amendment' instead of "you realize your plan is basically to rebuild the Stalinist system c. 1935, right? Gulag slave labor for some, forced labor under the state for others, maintained by terror? Did that system work?
aug 27, 2025, 7:42 pm • 170 17 • view
The fact that it didn’t work is the thing that gets me. These people are so intoxicated with greed and cruelty that they’d destroy the very thing that enables their excess.
aug 27, 2025, 7:50 pm • 9 0 • view
The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs has proven to be almost prophetically accurate.
aug 27, 2025, 7:52 pm • 9 0 • view
Yes. For 50+ years.
aug 27, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Obviously these fellows aren't real intellectuals in any meaningful sense of the word and that's the point I want to make here: journalists and academics need to stop treating Deneen and Rufo like they are members of the guild, when they're not.
aug 27, 2025, 7:42 pm • 188 13 • view
Maybe we need to accept they are in the guild if we can’t kick them out without all the money and influence circling to protect them under cover of “open inquiry.” The guild is rotten. It insists you open our mind wide enough to let your brain to fall out so they can fill it with tripe instead.
aug 27, 2025, 7:51 pm • 10 0 • view
They are the same that think Plato's Republic or Hobbes' Leviathan are ideal forms of governance. They are unserious.
aug 27, 2025, 8:02 pm • 3 0 • view
That has actually been their plan all along. They want to reintroduce something indistinguishable from chattel slavery. IMHO, worth what you paid. I suspect they also intend to roll the bankruptcy code right back to Imperial Rome AD 5O, and sell debtors into slavery as well.
aug 28, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, it "worked" in the sense that it kept Stalin in power untill he died. And I rather suspect that for all of thier posturing about the common good, that's really all people like Yarvin care about for thier proposed system.
aug 27, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
No, his answer is that he's going to build robot soldiers and put chips in all the guns so they only fire for his secret police. Literally, it's like something written by a child.
aug 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
What he imagines is a worse apartheid, complete with worse dompas.
aug 28, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
Sadly, I'm not at all surprised that ghouls like Thiel & Vance follow these racist, misogynisitc freaks. The thing that candidly did surprise me once I scratched the surface is the shocking lack of depth to their thinking. None of what they suggest is practicable. They've thought through *nothing*.
aug 27, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
It speaks volumes about the blind lust for power of Vance and Thiel. They have plenty of intellectual bandwidth to immediately spot the massive logical holes and flaws in what Yarvin advocates, but they don't even try.
aug 27, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
It seems to me like the intended answer is "God, because He fills His ministers with virtue and therefore a minister is incapable of robbing or raping," Which for Yarvin is apparently an acceptable idea because he is concerned only with gutter racism and sniveling sadism and not reality.
aug 27, 2025, 7:41 pm • 8 0 • view
Like, did this guy read "Killers of the Flower Moon" and conclude that the killers were the good guys? (TL;DR the reference: Osage were made wards of white people who then sometimes systematically murdered them to transfer their property to white people.)
aug 28, 2025, 11:29 am • 0 0 • view
The purpose of a system is what it does. A system that is designed to allow that sort of abuse is designed to encourage and protect those immoral acts.
aug 27, 2025, 7:41 pm • 8 0 • view
are we sure that Yarvin thinks this kind of behavior from his fantasy neofeudal lords is a problem?
aug 27, 2025, 7:39 pm • 10 0 • view
those things are features not bugs to inveterate evil racists like yarvin
aug 27, 2025, 7:38 pm • 11 0 • view
Or sock him in the mouth
aug 27, 2025, 9:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I would also accept "threw a can of soup at his head."
aug 28, 2025, 12:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, also acceptable
aug 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Would be nice if some of those "journalists" demanding that Mamdani disavow everything anyone else says would now demand that JD Vance disavow actual statements by this racist creep Yarvin that he has publicly admired
aug 27, 2025, 8:15 pm • 17 0 • view
Unutterably, horrific !!! That such a notion is permitted to be spoken publicly under the guise of governance & religious dictate is a crime again humanity!!! 🤬
aug 27, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not just intellectually disqualifying, it’s disqualifying as any sort of decent person.
aug 28, 2025, 6:37 am • 2 0 • view
I can’t help but think you are failing to recognize Yarvin’s important and valuable contribution to the welfare of society here. He is making unmistakably clear that there is no point in talking to him, he simply needs to get one behind the ear. He’s a fascist. There is only one cure for fascism.
aug 27, 2025, 7:50 pm • 18 1 • view
I’ve said time and time again republicans want to return to slavery.
aug 27, 2025, 8:21 pm • 6 0 • view
Or physically assault him.
aug 27, 2025, 7:37 pm • 12 0 • view
In their perverse philosophy, stupidity is a virtue.
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view