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Did he just pull a "according to the dictionary"? Sorry Moldbug, you just are radically uncool no matter how many leather jackets you get.

Etymology is not destiny. Otherwise, naughty children would be full of nothing, and (Borges' example) sarcophagi would be the opposite of vegetarians. So, Moldy's argument would be bad even if it were founded on linguistic facts, which it isn't.

I agree with him insofar as Trump and his lackeys definitely think and act as if it was the "autocratic branch" and both the legislature and judiciary don't seem to be interested in disabusing them of that notion

Shorter Moldbug: I am smarter than the framers of the US Constitution. Also, those traitors were wrong.

As a prominent intellectual voice criticizing the current administration, our boy Curtis should really be grateful that they don't hew more closely to his preferred fascist project, as if they did they would have the incentive to be just as if not more brutal in stomping out "credible" independent opposition from the right as from existing liberal institutions. After all the fascist project relies on subverting existing institutions that are too tied up in their own bureaucracy and politicking to effectively oppose them, while the whole point Yarvin has made across his whole career is that the fascists have no such impediment or incentive for restraint. The Night of the Long Knives predated Kristallnacht by more than 4 years, after all.

He will never stop to reflect that his "philosophy," such as it is, is explicitly tailored for avaricious power-hungry narcissists, soooooo

if I were to make any predictive guesses about this at all (and I know the possible folly herein): probably the biggest issue with this is that he'll try use it as a beacon for others (thiel? thiel-shaped people) to put effort behind "correcting the path"

and there's enough ghouls invested in this to try that a not-insignificant amount

oh god has he spawned????

Yeah the genocidal imagery was downright unhinged, much worse than I expected from what little I've previously read of his. I almost wonder how ideological adjacent allies like Siskind can still stand to be associated with him (but not really, Siskind can normalize any odious insanity if it serves his purposes).

@rook @sneerclub No; back in the early 1990s he was an amusing usenet troll with a sideline in ice-cold sarcasm, but the libertarianism hadn't eaten his brain yet (although it had already gotten to his elder brother, the cypherpunk).