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DBoon

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Sat Dec 21, 2024, 10:50 AM Dec 21

He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure 'dark enlightenment' blogger influencing the next US administration [View all]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the “neoreactionary” thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration in particular over potential threats to US democracy.

Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect JD Vance and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trump’s election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvin’s public proposals for taking autocratic power in America.
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Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program. They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as Rage (for “retire all government employees”).

They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them. They should bring Congress to heel, in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers. And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed..


He is calling for a "Caesar" to rule the US as an autocrat, eliminating any residue of liberal democracy. JD Vance has spoken very highly of him
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Throw him in prison without a trial and then see what he thinks of the US Constitution. He'd be begging for it. Walleye Dec 21 #1
We did a poor job communicating Vance's crazy ideas. yardwork Dec 21 #2
Blame the rancidity corrupt and incompetent American media Charging Triceratops Dec 21 #5
We can't count on the media. yardwork Dec 21 #6
When the autopsy is written on America, the whore media will be found as the cause of death. OMGWTF Dec 21 #14
MidasTouch network on youtube is awesome! Bluethroughu Dec 21 #28
Great, another nazi weirdo. Dave Bowman Dec 21 #3
This guy is extremely dangerous and scary karin_sj Dec 21 #4
He sounds very nuts! people Dec 21 #12
Dafuq?!? OMGWTF Dec 21 #15
Isn't this the plot of The Matrix? skypilot Dec 21 #16
Anyone ever read FalloutShelter Dec 21 #26
I'm sure President Vance will nominate him NameAlreadyTaken Dec 21 #7
Curtis Yarvins goal is to have divide all the states up in the US into Jspur Dec 21 #8
They tried that in England Beck23 Dec 21 #23
Peter Theil sounds dumb AF also. They are just Bluethroughu Dec 21 #29
I heard that Theil is quite enamored with Yarvin's ideas tikka Dec 21 #30
I have two words for this guy: Maximilien Robespierre Yavin4 Dec 21 #9
may mao got the "cultural revolution " idea right rampartd Dec 21 #32
I don't know who the hell Curtis is... Blue_Tires Dec 21 #10
None of them are invulnerable Nigrum Cattus Dec 21 #13
I think what happened to Caligula is also a good lesson for him DBoon Dec 21 #25
OH GOODY state of stupid Dec 21 #11
Who wants to bet Yarvin got his start spapeggy Dec 21 #17
More about Yarvin here, in a thread from five months ago: highplainsdem Dec 21 #18
He's a genuine scumbag. BradBo Dec 21 #19
He thinks liberal democracy is decadent? nuxvomica Dec 21 #20
He sounds like a seditionist Dyedinthewoolliberal Dec 21 #21
We know what happened to Caesar. Beck23 Dec 21 #22
A life unearned Buddyzbuddy Dec 21 #24
This IS SEDITION. Bluethroughu Dec 21 #27
We're in for a really scary time... karin_sj Dec 21 #31
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