Has to be in america
Imagine driving a BMW and still being gay
Why do you keep saying i have a bmw? I would never buy that garbage
Cars are DEPRECIATING assets and BMWs are one of the WORST examples of that. Which is why i bought a cybertruck
Sun Tzu
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/sun-tzu-quotes
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Watched the whole thing and found it enlightening.
Yarvin, despite being well-spoken, is not actually a good speaker. His points, at this point, essentially make themselves. Institutions are failing. Democracy produces results that are sometimes worse for the majority of people. We live already in a political system which is oligarchical, aristocratic, corrupt, and - most importantly - almost completely dysfunctional.
And yet, somehow over the course of the conversation he comes away looking worse. He speaks at great length about history and political theory and all manner of other interesting things and never manages to actually make these most basic points, which the interviewer keeps trying to bring him back to, instead opting to lead the listener through a labyrinth of discussion only to arrive at a much weaker point which both fails to deliver on the original promise of its labyrinthine premise and fails to reinforce the basic principles that underpin his entire political theory.
I'm paused in the midst of a debate over whether a holocaust-like event occurred before the 20th century in Europe (Yarvin is losing - human history is full of examples of genocidal behavior which he continually shifts the goalposts on in an attempt to reinforce his claim that the holocaust is unique and a result of the rise of democracy in all the countries besides Nazi Germany - itself a bizarre claim) and it occurs to me that neither of these two has anything to gain from this discussion - even if Yarvin was right, it does nothing to reinforce his core points and is completely meaningless to the listener.
In short, he's trapped in his own labyrinth.
Then we move on to the infamous "three quotes" scene which has been making the rounds on twitter.
Yarvin is so "committed to the bit" that he basically takes his own bait, quoted back to him, and dives in head-first to defend statements like "Anders Breivik is morally equivalent to Nelson Mandela" or the claim that the abolition of slavery was bad for the slaves - all using filmsy historical examples which are almost immediately repudiated by the interviewer. He eventually falls back on the more effective values-based arguments like "how do you distinguish between a terrorist and a freedom fighter," but only once he has already been made to look either stupid or dishonest.
Essentially, he gives the NYT interviewer the easiest hack-job interview of his life. Interviewer gets to sit there saying "Actually, I think slavery was bad" and then effortlessly transition from "you're crazy but let's not debate it anymore" to "your ideas have reached actual decision-makers in the incoming Republican administration - that's terrible."
Yarvin comes out of this looking terrible. I genuinely hold him on the level of your average teenage anarchist at this point. Yes, all of our institutions have failed. That's the easiest argument for anyone to make. The mistake is in thinking they should be torn down and replaced with some lunatic system of government which will obviously be worse for everyone involved (anarchy and monarchy - the two political systems most historically proven to lead to horrible violence) rather than reformed or repaired.
In one interview, I'm no longer interested in Yarvin. The Cathedral has won.
zero idea what you're talking about.
Unable to address the existence of the polychronic time wikipedia articles.
Low IQ user above. Here's a protip from a high-iq Yarvin guru -- do a Straussian reading of the NYT interview.
https://x.com/CarlZha/status/1880865624924336612
Chinese zoomers are going to get ZONKED by this stuff.
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It's obvious that the Tiktok ban is a setup for Trump to get in and unban it and be hailed as a hero.
Bluesky, Rednote, none of that stuff is very serious and is fundamentally flawed. These "alternate platforms" are poisoned wells from the beginning; There is no such thing as an "authentic" bluesky or rednote user.
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A user on Rednote is going to subconsciously exaggerate personality characteristics and behaviors, even more than they usually do on the "authentic" platforms.
It's unavoidable, social media users are very fickle.
What's really funny is that people complaining about X behavior are going to exaggerate their opposite Y behavior in the same inauthentic manner, leading to a feedback loop which ends up with things like "Polychronic Time Warp" Wikipedia articles.
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So when you complain about Straight Behavior it's actually because you want to accentuate your Gay Behavior?
Unfortunately having awareness of these social patterns may be more of a curse than anything.
You are now breathing manually.
Very Freudian.
No no, people who complain about Gays end up acting more Straight than they usually would. Accentuating their straightness.
Here lies the difference between "Less Bad" and "More Good".
Is this epistemology? I don't know for sure what category of academic study this is, but I run my own school of thought anyway.
U C Soda Die His Hair Pink After Losing To T1 LMAO
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I saw the hair but didn't know why. Jcrispy was telling me he died again on his main HC character? I don't really keep up with the LivestreamFails subreddit.