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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 137 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 59 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I find it funny how bad guys in fiction openly expresses that they’re in the dark side. That’s so comical it can’t happen in reality. Right?

Nah, this guy is embracing ”Dark Enlightenment” as his core philosophy.

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[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 46 points 3 months ago (6 children)

“He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[3][18] He has argued that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people,[18] and opposes U.S. civil rights programs.[19]”

holy fucking hell

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude

Never his race though, that'd be silly.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He looks like even the mirror bullies him

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] killea@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

What a definitive neckbeard good LORD.

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

(I read the tweet)

Mother of God...

(I read his Wikipedia page)

Oh, this is actually mild by his standards, my goodness...

[–] Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 78 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can we please go back to a time when psychos like this guy were largely irrelevant?

I hate the internet sometimes.

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[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I... what does that even mean?

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

ok I'm going to TRY to explain his thinking but I'm likely going to come off as racist trying to explain it.

What he's saying is there are those who earned their wealth via hard work and all that other bullshit and others that just got it handed to them or give off the impression that they're insanely wealthy when "they're not".

this is what he likely means when he says "n-word rich". Because this morons impression of wealth in the Black community is via watching music videos and watching reality TV. He's watched way too many youtube vids about such and such Black music artist or athlete who wears all this "bling" has all these cars and a huge mansion with nothing in it but meanwhile said person is broke. that's what he means by "n-word rich".

he could have just said "The problem is the majority of billionaires aren't actually billionaires. They just think they are."

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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 months ago (9 children)

How is it that the weirdest dudes keep ending up with so much power and influence. Like, this is just bigoted shit obviously, but it's weird bigoted shit. What is it about people that makes them look at a weirdo freak (derogatory) like this and think "this is a man I need to have direct the entirety of my belief system going forward"?

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Now you, too, know about Curtis Yarvin. You thought Jordan Peterson was bad? Welcome to the club.

And people think I'm exaggerating or polarising when I call Peter Thiel a neoliberal fascist.

edit: it seems some people don't understand that Neoliberalism and Fascism do, in fact, go together very well. And that the fascism we're all facing now does not look the same as 90 years ago.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 50 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Ok, i reconstruct the slur in my mind and...what the fuck is that even mean? It sounds like another one of those word salad by intoxicated individual that mean absolutely nothing but also trying to be profoundly racist.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago

Fascists have no subatance, no interiority.

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 48 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.

I mean that literally.

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[–] blackwateropeth@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hahaha, what the fuck does that even mean???? What a clown

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Negrous

Motherfucker out here just making up entirely new racial slurs.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago
[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I keep running into this problem where I hear about this conservative intellectual and I go to read their work. I know I'm not going to agree with them, but let me find the flaw or where our values diverge in their argument.

When I gloss it, I'll assume the problem is me when i fail to find that spot. So I do a closer, more serious reading of their work. Still don't see it. Again. Fail. Again. Fail. Again.fsil.failfsilfisjl.

These "intellectuals" are people who haven't read widely, haven't practice developing ideas, and don't know how to write a structured argument.These fuckers were "STEM" smart from a young age, probably without much effort, got accolades from everyone about how smart they were, and thought the liberal arts were a joke. And honestly, until advanced high school classes, they often are. Because before that age, your brain lacks the skills and data to do it at all.

Their combined rhetorical strength lies in misleading statements, provocations, and hiding their true intent behind mealy mouth pseudo intellectualism. At least Yarvin will come out and say he wants feudalism. Fuck Jordan Peterson in particular. I am worse off for ever having tried to comprehend his thinking. I'm not sure who else sucks in this day and age, but I include Theil, bronze age pervert, and the CEO of Palintar. All, I believe, have advanced degrees in the liberal arts.

This isn't to say that there aren't conservatives worth reading and disagreeing with, but the surface is polluted.

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I thought he meant naggers.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At what point do we start tagging him with "racist sympathizer Peter Thiel"?

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[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 23 points 3 months ago

Black people: "Why am I in this?"

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The most benevolent reading of his idea here is that the rich are shallow and are content with the base material satisfactions afforded them by wealth, as opposed to using their wealth for some kind of greatness.

That's it. That's the whole idea.

So this is the wise sage of the dark enlightenment? This is the intellectual colossus shaping the thinking of the new tech elite?

There is nothing there. Any random village priest (or small town pastor for you yanks) has more intellectual depth in their Sunday sermon than this.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

There is no mask when you're already 'Peter Thiel's bestie'

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Least Racist Curtis Yarvin post

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Yarvin is a traitor to humanity.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This man needs to be hanged for treason.

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