Meanwhile, his ideological companion and shining light Curtis Yarvin has seemingly gone insane:
"We have only one problem. The problem is: our billionaires are n—ers. They may be rich. But they're n—er rich. The nature and function of their wealth is profoundly negrous. You can probably name exceptions. I can too. But in every way, the exceptions prove the rule"
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"gone insane" implies that he was sane before. None of his political ideas are sane. It's just a lot of completely insane ideas, and the only notable thing about him is that for some unfathomable reason some people with money and power seem to pay some attention to him.
The fact he had to use dashes there just really demonstrates the out of control radical left liberal media cancel culture censorship (/s).
I still do think racism is a pretty impotent critique though. The driving goal of these people isn't racial segregation, but rather power. They're leaning into the latent racism in our society as a source of energy. But when you make a deal with the Devil, the Devil will always ultimately win. These people (drunk on big data and now LLMs) think they can beat the Devil at his own game, as they lead Western society to ruin.
I think he used dashes so that if someone accuses him of using the n-word, he can go "no I didn’t, hyuck hyuck!" See his use of "niggardly" later in the thread. Toddler logic.
Anyway, I’m sure at this point that Yarvin is genuinely a white supremacist who no longer feels the need to hide his true nature. Some of the racist things he says are too repulsive to serve a practical political purpose. (Like suggesting that we should bring back Black slavery to replace deported laborers.)
I'd say the practical political purpose is to normalize the idea of extreme power disparities and mass disenfranchisement, and of course the everpresent edgelord vice signalling to draw attention by appearing as some fresh alternative.
I'm not saying Yarvin is not fully steeped in white supremacy by now - I mean seriously how hard would it be to find a different word? Has he run out of words from all that prolix writing?
It just feels like a pretty ineffective and nonproductive angle of critique. It's what they expect and have already set up their individual and collective armor to deflect it (eg how "deplorables" played out).
The real problem is that authoritarian societies don't innovate. People felt this suffocation from the creeping bureaucratic authoritarianism, which is why they were tempted to buy into this autocratic garbage in the first place. But the failure modes of autocratic authoritarianism are so much worse. Never mind starting off with a demented moron at the helm, making even the initial trajectory point downwards.