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.

@seanmunger Thanks!

On the topic of the ridiculousness of the manosphere/alt-right, our page on the #neoreactionary movement also points that out: Mencius Moldbug/Curtis Yarvin was satirized by John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces before Yarvin was even born.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

#ConfederacyOfDunces #curtisyarvin

@lolgop If anyone hasn’t read about the anti-democratic views of #CurtisYarvin you might check that out!

@brendannyhan It’s time to double down on speaking out and working to save our #democracy. Elon Musk appears to be working under the anti-democratic views of #CurtisYarvin.

If you have not read about Curtis Yarvin’s anti-democratic ideas and his influence on the Republican Party, now is the time.
#democracy #CurtisYarvin #GOP

The Reactionary Prophet of Silicon Valley https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/

@sshann I just read this piece about Yarvin’s anti-democratic ideas. Holy hell. It’s fascism dressed up as efficiency and effectiveness. #democracy #CurtisYarvin #autocracy

The Reactionary Prophet of Silicon Valley https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/

Please discuss and boost:

Elon Musk's purchase of #Twitter and the vision of a technological monarchy (as described and espoused by Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug).

#Politics #Technology #SiliconValley #Elon #ElonMusk #USA #Democracy #Internet #libertarian #CurtisYarvin

Voting in a #democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich
#CurtisYarvin

@gasull This week I listened to this #CurtisYarvin interview by #MichaelMalice (over several days, while working, not focused).

In it, #MenciusMoldbug says he’s #rightwing because he’s for order and not for chaos. As in: more secure streets and fewer homeless people is more orderly. Who could argue against that?

Some of the other easy examples he fails to mention are: one human race giving the orders while the other races do the work is also more orderly than the “chaos” of mingling all skin colours; there’s more order in a society with no drugs than in a society where people seek inspiration and comfort and silliness in drugs. Top-down autocratic hierarchies definitely generate more “order” than voluntary agreements between peers. Heterosexual relationships, mandatory marriage and monogamy are “order”, while free love and tolerance are more chaotic. etc.

To me, more signs that he’s a very dangerous and charismatic demagogue. Shamelessly dog-whistling to advance the most retrograde of causes :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7bsZ7jJBnk

I really can't stand the lack of intellectual rigour in all those hints and captious questions about alleged #ElectionFraud in the #US…
Latest example: in this #podcast, #CurtisYarvin argues that there are “means, motive, and opportunity” to suspect crime. But anyone can find as many red flags as they want — *evidence* (or in this case, the lack thereof) and presumption of innocence is what counts. He also wonders why there were #election observers at all, if the process is supposed to be so clean and fair (by the same logic, air travel must be riddled with safety issues and we should assume it's much more dangerous than people think, since there are so many checks and protocols and inspectors).
And this is the messiah of the #NRx…?
https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/146

Voting in a #democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich
#CurtisYarvin