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Which is to say, the scope within which Elon is successful is quite circumscribed. The federal government is nothing like a company in which one has controlling ownership. Not even for the president, much less for someone he has appointed. I doubt Elon cou... 1d ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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I am not insisting that this conception of white nationalism is any sort of theoretically ideal organisation of society. I am sure your theory-crafted model for aristocrats of the soul is far more refined and creative than this "vulgar" project, but we liv... 2d ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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The elimination of the upper class as a self-conscious, self-contained entity is definitely part of it, both in Europe and in certain parts of America. You did have the transition from an aristocracy based on the ownership of productive land towards a more... 8d ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

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This will become especially true if we do end up with low-grade speciation from either some kind of genetic tampering or selective breeding between the elite. Already, you could argue that selection mechanisms in the West have led to a sort of situation li... 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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Some organizations should be reformed, others deleted. The macro trend is metastasizing bureaucracy---we simply have *more* of everything to the point of sclerosis. Cities with 100s of committees, insolvent states, uncountable federal agencies. If we have ... 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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ah sneaky sneaky. Nevermind deepfakes. We have the New York Times. So this is not absolute change, but relative to overall shift. So that means that the blue shift in the rural areas is fake, but the red shift in cities is real and even bigger than they ar... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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I don't think that I am missing the point nor do I disagree with you. It is necessary both to be abstract and concrete. You see pundits talking about high minded ideals like "defending Western civilization", making sure "Civilization doesn't collapse", pre... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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Not well-versed in this, but a funny aside: Garry Tan’s TikToks average less than 200 views, and he interacts with anyone who comments or even visits his page (which is effectively no one). Seems like an incredibly easy in for anyone trying to reach out. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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I want to go on 2 different slightly tangents: (1) on the 'hard' vs 'soft' migration assimilation policies, with a contrast between a muscular assimilationist Singapore and an inclusionary Europe/West of 2015. (2) on the gender / age dynamics of immigratio... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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this criticism sounds wise but it has no substance. Who even is invoking global macro doomerism, moral narratives, or the "global trading system"? CTRL-F tells me its only you, anon. The basic subject at hand is the financial unsustainability of a trade de... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

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Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 4 4

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this 1999 stormfront framing of the issue is weak and vulgar. It presumes way too much from grievance group ethics and just tries to get the white man in on the moral patient grift. The real issue here is european civilization as a transcendent higher thin... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 9 9

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I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late:... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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Its the election-related preference cascade. With trump winning as hard as he did, the mercenaries realized they would have to work with trump, the left realized they didn’t know how to oppose the right anymore, and the right realized they wouldn't be op... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

Its the election-rel (view hidden) retry 8 8

The Grimm Brothers saw language as the repository of a people's culture. And so linguistic spheres of influence have effectively become cultural spheres of influence. I don't think the issue here is necessarily the size of the speech community, but rather ... 7mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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As an example of an institution that is attempting to generate a semblance of autocthonic legitimacy from relatively non-elitist material, see https://www.mcucoop.com/ 10mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism.... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

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I must say, his methods for resisting power are intended for the mentally ill and homosexuals, if those should be separated, but his conceptions of those categories are different from those popularly used at present, and they can still be adapted for other... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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