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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

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

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

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
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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social

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
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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social

The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs has proven to be almost prophetically accurate.

aug 27, 2025, 7:52 pm • 9 0 • view
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Polly Andrée @exmemoriam.bsky.social

Yes. For 50+ years.

aug 27, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

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
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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social

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
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MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social

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
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dan-seattle.bsky.social @dan-seattle.bsky.social

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
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jben1990.bsky.social @jben1990.bsky.social

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
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CassiniDivision 🇨🇦 @cassinidivision.bsky.social

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
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social

What he imagines is a worse apartheid, complete with worse dompas.

aug 28, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view