#menciusmoldbug — Public Fediverse posts

Whatay (long) read:

“Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America”, The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile or https://archive.ph/zo6Vk).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184305

#USA #America #Trump #CurtisYarvin #Politics #FarRight #DissidentRight #MenciusMoldbug #NeoReactionary #Monarchy

I’m so done listening to #CurtisYarvin, aka #MenciusMoldbug. (Last time: #Triggernometry #podcast.) Don’t let me ever read or hear from him again.

I’ve given him enough opportunities already to defend his views and proposals, but specific ideas and policy proposals he has zero. There’s a limit to how much hand-waving one can do and historical anecdotes one can point to before coming back down to earth and to actual reforms.

It’s not that he’s sometimes dog-whistling, it’s that dog-whistling is all he does, devoid of any content.

Stop slipping away, stick your neck out, and answer direct questions. Here’s a good heuristic for him and his followers: if straight answers to specific issues sound absurd or alarming (dictatorship? racial hierarchies? state surveillance? empire?), there’s a non-negligible probability that your ideas are wrong.

I love listening to lunatics and contrarians. There's a lot of value in learning about unsuspected points of view. That's why I like #Unregistered #podcast so much.
Too often however, #ThaddeusRussell is just letting idiotic ideas stand unchallenged.
Case in point, the latest episode with #MenciusMoldbug:
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/146
MM: [Blatant overgeneralisation]
TR: “Wow!”
MM: [Reckless call to subvert everything]
TR: “Oooh…”
MM: [Caricature of opposite PoV]
TR: “Nice!”
MM: [Faulty logic]
TR: “You make my mind stretch!”
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I'm hearing so many attacks on #democracy and so many calls from people I would respect otherwise to have “less democracy”… All those (#ThaddeusRussell, #GarettJones, #MenciusMoldbug…) seem to be confusing “smaller State” with “less democracy”.
When we #ClassicLiberals criticise the tyranny of the majority, what we are saying is that no State or institutional power should intrude so deeply into personal matters — not that we would prefer those intrusions to be orchestrated by dictators, oligarchs or technocrats instead of democratic institutions (imperfect and fallible as they may be)! We want less #coercion overall (ie, less #State) — not to move the extant coercive power from democracy to #autarchy.
Please reflect about that distinction if you find yourself dissatisfied with the status quo and flirting with the ideas of #NRx, #DarkEnlightenment, autarchy, #monarchy, etc.