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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
What an absolute lunatic. His interview responses are like those of a 15 year old kid who has just discovered Ayn Rand.
Comment by mrkfn at 19/01/2025 at 07:22 UTC
314 upvotes, 12 direct replies
Invariably, the least intellectually oriented people turn to libertarianism… it’s depressing.
Comment by Razgriz01 at 19/01/2025 at 11:17 UTC
76 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Unfortunately, 15 year old who just read Ayn Rand pretty well describes the views of most of our wealthy class.
Comment by Describing_Donkeys at 19/01/2025 at 14:25 UTC
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And yet, he's going to be the architect for how Republicans attempt to create a post democracy society. The most powerful people in the world are into his philosophy. Vance especially, as Thiel's puppet, is a deep believer in what Yarvin preaches. Vance wants to be the one to enact Yarvin's vision and he may get the opportunity.
Comment by DrDankDankDank at 19/01/2025 at 13:35 UTC
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I feel like the greedy and power hungry of every age and era go looking for some kind of intellectual framework that justifies their greed and avarice. This generation has found it in this guy.
Comment by SkyboyRadical at 19/01/2025 at 14:19 UTC
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I was actually really disappointed. I heard a lot about this guy and he was painted as some sort of boogeyman. I at least expected him to be well reasoned and I was truly interested in the perspective. But yeah his answers were not good, he seems like a terrible ambassador for his own ideology.
To be fair the interviewer sucked too tho, it was just sort of a waste of time
Comment by _project_cybersyn_ at 19/01/2025 at 14:10 UTC
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He's the final boss Redditor, like every libertarian Redditor you've ever argued with combined into one person.
Comment by Turdlely at 19/01/2025 at 14:29 UTC
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Yeah he considers himself intellectual except his answers were bumbling half answers and only work if you ignore large swaths of history and fact
Comment by Strange-Scarcity at 22/01/2025 at 18:08 UTC
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The Interview SANEWASHES him.
Comment by tisdalien at 20/01/2025 at 00:43 UTC
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He’s definitely a bad guy. He’s spawned a whole sub-category of bond villain-like billionaires who become more and more dangerous to our democracy with each passing year
Comment by Dpgillam08 at 20/01/2025 at 01:39 UTC
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Its the counter to so much of social media pushing that activism is more important for companies than making money. Most the entertainment and tech industries are dropping quarter billion or more in dev costs for products that will require 4 million copies be sold to break even, but best projections are only selling 1-2 million copies; they are working themselves into to bankruptcy, and people are wondering why. Used t be, even grade schoolers knew you have to make more than you spend to keep a business open. Somehow, we have "experts" with Masters and PhDs who don't understand this simple concept.
Comment by Giblet_ at 20/01/2025 at 03:43 UTC
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The thing is, most of the people who vote for Republicans these days are the "taker" class that Rand despised.
Comment by Imaginary_Bit_4691 at 20/01/2025 at 12:36 UTC
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Conservatives are essentially 15-year-old kids who just discovered Ayn Rand. They never mentally progressed past that stage.
Comment by 2000TWLV at 20/01/2025 at 14:28 UTC
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Yep. This motherfucker is an idiot. Can't believe they give him airtime.
Comment by RepulsiveCable5137 at 20/01/2025 at 15:07 UTC
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I guess Yarvin don’t want the roads to be fixed.
Comment by Opening_Effective845 at 20/01/2025 at 19:14 UTC
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Someone referred to him as a third rate David Foster Wallace once and that stuck with me.
Comment by CarmineLTazzi at 20/01/2025 at 19:54 UTC
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And he is a heavy influence on our current Vice President. Good times.
Comment by Strict_Weather9063 at 22/01/2025 at 17:25 UTC
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John Rogers quote here there are two books a 14 year old can find that will change their lives. One is pure fantasy the other of course involves orcs. Paraphrasing here but that is Rand books badly written tripe.
Comment by Development-Alive at 22/01/2025 at 20:30 UTC
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This is the guy that influence TechBros like Peter Thiel and David Saks who financially backed JD Vance. Just think about that for the moment.
Comment by Wave_File at 22/01/2025 at 22:55 UTC
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Quite literally, I could only stand about half the interview. His worldview is literally just one long shitpost, and he’s audibly tickled that the nytimes is there interviewing him.
Comment by Crommach at 19/01/2025 at 17:24 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
What drives me nuts about this is that this isn't new, it was just ignored. The left has been warning about people like Yarvin, their fascist goals, and how they were getting the backing of powerful people like Peter Thiel to spread their influence. (The podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, for example, have done great work about it, and i highly recommend them both. ) And over the years, almost all I saw as a response from liberals/centrists was either "they're too crazy to get anywhere" at best, or more typically, that the left was engaging in panicky fearmongering and to shut up and stop being so extreme before they scared away swing voters.
Now we are, with an incoming administration filled to the brim with true believers in this fascist nonsense, backed by billionaires who not only believe it too but who helped spread that ideology and promote those true believers. We may well have just lost our democracy, and it's not as if nobody saw it coming.
I'm not saying this to pick fights or play the blame game, since we're all going to need to band together to fight what's coming. It's just incredibly disheartening and frustrating having watched warnings be ignored, only to now see it being reported by a major outlet like the Times as if it's this crazy unforeseen surprise.
Comment by Cautious-Progress876 at 19/01/2025 at 15:20 UTC
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Read his blog and his substack. The dude is pretty dang dangerous. He’s nice in person though, so there’s that.
Comment by Far-Status-6641 at 19/01/2025 at 16:26 UTC
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I heard him defend his comment in the interview that Nelson mendella was bad because he was on the South African terrorist list.
Comment by partfortynine at 21/01/2025 at 17:55 UTC
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And didn't get it. He's the entitled elite that ruins the minds of man
Comment by plaidington at 19/01/2025 at 16:29 UTC
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Sadly, that is exactly what we are dealing with now. And it is not looking good.
Comment by ProtoLibturd at 19/01/2025 at 10:11 UTC
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At least someone read Ayn Rand when they were 15