• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Project 2025 and Curtis Yarvin have direct ties to 4chan as well. Maybe not the horse you wanna hitch to.

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        He’s the philosopher of choice for people like Peter Thiel and JD Vance. He advocates for moving to a neofeudalist system, arguing that democracy is a failed project. Beyond this, he holds some truly repugnant views that are woven throughout his ideology

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          US representative democracy may be a failed system, but it was designed in the 18th century when travel and long range communications was time consuming. Needs a major revamp for the digital world, and we are getting to the point where that could be possible (technology, at least).

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          17 days ago

          JD Vance unironically believes in a Neo Feudalist?!

          Who’s Peter Thiel

          Edit: Because downvoting me answers my question

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            Peter Thiel

            A right-wing billionaire who is responsible for a lot modern evils, but he sometimes likes to pull the “I’m not evil or racist, I am gay, so I can’t be”.

            You may have heard of Facebook, or Palantir, or JD Vance.

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        18 days ago

        Those are great questions to start with on your search engine of choice! If you’re more of an audio person, I find this podcast to be a great overview.