#reactionary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reactionary, aggregated by home.social.
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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Interview (1963-11-05) by William Stringer, “Midroad View at Gettysburg,” Christian Science MonitorMore about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/17…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #centrism #compromise #extremism #fringe #gray #gutters #leftwing #middleoftheroad #problemsolving #radical #reactionary #rightwing
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M.H.R.
The Passion and Redemption of a Proletarian Seer It’s barely been ten days but this is different. I wrote the following piece on M.H.R., as I like to call him, many months ago. And, even though I’ve sent it out to a range of outlets, no one wants to publish it. So (partly to test the possibility of using this newsletter as a very occasional substack as well) I’m sharing it directly with you. In the light of the film that was made about him, M.H.R. feels not only significant but also […] -
Article in The New Yorker on how Nick Land has ‘has reemerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.’ And yet is also very much yesterday’s man. “They sounded like old fogeys,” said podcaster Justin Murphy, host of a 2020 LA conversation between Land and Curtis Yarvin, another influential neo-reactionary - an event that was also attended by Peter Theil. “We’ll remember this night as proof that the Dark Enlightenment is over.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
#philosophy #theory #nickland #curtisyarvin #reactionary #petertheil
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Even at this late stage, the combination of such an extreme lack of self-awareness and so much self-pity all wrapped up in a single person is just astonishing.
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Yarvin seems shocked that Musk (with zero government experience except for a reliance on government contracts) is doing such a poor job. He also seems chagrined at Trump's specific actions, like tariffs, which are throwing markets into chaos. In political terms, the whole thing is a total disaster. By early 2025, millions of Americans are marching in streets and even Republican voters are showing up at town halls to express seething anger.
Yarvin seems to have come to a stark realization: If Musk/Trump fail to destroy the democratic system, extreme anti-government pseudo-intellectuals may face a bleak future. He urgently warns them against half-assing the revolution – and reveals his own fear of what might happen when the pendulum swings in the other direction:
But in the end, it is the road toward winding up in the foam yourself—probably with me, for all my troubles. (This is what usually happens to right-wing intellectuals, actually.)
https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin-fears-his-authoritarian-fantasy-is-flopping/
#Yarvin #CurtisYarvin #NRx #Neoreaction #monarchy #reactionary #fascism #Musk #Trump #USPol
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#Transgender #athletes face an #uncertain #future at the #Olympics as #antitrans #reactionary #policies gain ground.
A constellation of #white #supremacist, #conservative and #Christian #extremist #groups and so-called "#gendercriticalfeminists" are resisting #feminist and #gender-#inclusive #challenges to traditional #gender and #sexual #hierarchies.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-transgender-athletes-uncertain-future-olympics.html