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twiddling | 9 months ago

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kragen|9 months ago

Please don't post glib dismissals here.

ceejayoz|9 months ago

It's not that glib, it's a point made in the article.

> He found more of a community on Usenet, a precursor to today’s online forums. But even in groups like talk.bizarre, where intellectual peacocking was the norm, he stood out for his desire to dominate.

UncleMeat|9 months ago

I’m very sorry that I don’t want to spend time making a person who wants me dead seem like a person worth taking seriously.

nehal3m|9 months ago

I don't think this even is their final form...

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|9 months ago

I think it is. This stood out to me:

> As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to self-identifying as a king, one might expect to find Yarvin in an exultant mood. In fact, he has spent the past few months fretting that the moment will go to waste. “If you have a Trump boner right now, enjoy it,” he wrote two days after the election. “It’s as hard as you’ll ever get.” What many see as the most dangerous assault on American democracy in the nation’s history Yarvin dismisses as woefully insufficient—a “vibes coup.” Without a full-blown autocratic takeover, he believes, a backlash is sure to follow.

And I don't think he's wrong; the longer it takes for the reality of a takeover to manifest, the less likely it is to happen.