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RRG's avatar

A world in which oligarchs & tech bros fawn over this fucking guy…honestly idk why I continue to be astonished anymore. JFC 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Susan's avatar

This guy is weirdo.

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GW B's avatar

Fuentes seems like a pirate captain. He’s got a big ship full and there is only one way to switch captains.

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GW B's avatar
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Yarvin could fix most of his problems by getting a big boy haircut and getting into the habit of some push ups and sit ups and cardiovascular exercise. Then he would start to feel better about himself and could stop worrying about other people’s lives, and move on to doing something useful for humanity vs. spending all his time translating Dugin into English like a complete dolt.

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Leanne Fierstein's avatar

Nothing Yarvin says makes intuitive sense. He’s anti-intuitive. It’s so narcissistic of these dark enlightenment people to think that the rest of us should give up our freedom and democracy to make them wealthy and powerful. No!

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SusanB's avatar

I need to re-read Jerzy Kosinski's Being There .

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R.V. Scheide Jr.'s avatar

Yarvin reminds me of Alex in A Clockwork Orange who fantasized about torturing Christians back in Roman times. He too had a love of uniforms.

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Mary-BethSMontgomery's avatar

It’s hard listening to him, he’s so full of himself. Acting like a real philosopher with the finger thing. 🤢🤬 You can tell he loves that people listen to him - like tRUmp 😂🤮 I’ve always thought he was a stupid person’s idea of a smart person 😂😂 it is truly remarkable that anyone would listen to him and his stupid “ideas” 😖😖 that’s just white superior Nazism rebooted 🤬😭🤬🤬🤬

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Tammie Diepen's avatar

It seems to me that the people most likely to need, or crave, order above all else, had none (or nothing was in their control, or had no personal power), as children, leaving them to feel powerless and out-of-control, living lives without order, filled with chaos and confusion...

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Tammie Diepen's avatar

They become compulsive as adults in their need for order and control

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

Nailed it.

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Jonji's avatar

Origin stories can sometimes be psychological diagnoses. His makes complete sense. YouTube has radicalized way too many; wasn't the Pittsburgh shooter one of them? I really am fascinated with your statements about simplicity and complexity in man's regressive thinking processes, and how destructive it can be. Yarvin is a puppet, trying to pull his own strings...and ours.

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Karen Scofield's avatar

It's fascinating to me to see just how easily influenced people are,no common sense at all. You've nailed it once again, Jim 🎯 and will reStack ASAP 🙏

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

Nothing explains it better than "little boys having a tantrum" so what stunted their growth? Most "little boys" grow up and realise that they are not the only people on the earth and that there are many ideas that deserve consideration. Why didn't they? I find it's mostly that they embrace their idea of "order" because they can't deal with complexity. When I was young, I bought a T-shirt that proclaimed that "Reality is for people that can't handle drugs" it depicted a gargoyle character that I found funny. I never did anything heavier that smoke pot and the occasional magic mushrooms. This was back in the mid 70's but I never thought that people who didn't partake were wrong. It was just a bit of fun. Essentially these guys as kids took themselves WAY to seriously. So now they become fanatics. Or maybe it's just for the simple reason that espouses those silly thoughts makes MONEY! ?? I'll go with Tim Walz's theory that they're just "weird" lol.

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Gari Gold Richardson's avatar

Thank you for saying more about Yarvin. He’s an important philosopher just the same as Trump is a successful business man.

The first time I saw swastikas in Arizona was about the mid 90’s. They were prominent and on faces and necks. Pro tats. Not jail ones. It coincided with the waiting period to purchase a firearm. That begun in 94. So then. Just fyi. Great work as always, Jim.

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RRG's avatar

“He’s an important philosopher just the same as Trump is a successful businessman.” 🤣

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Gari Gold Richardson's avatar

😂🙏

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

That's maybe the difference. My coming of age was to go to the pub, they're coming of age was to be able to buy a gun. Only in America!

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Gari Gold Richardson's avatar

To round out the picture I was describing, the men I saw with the nazi tats weren't kids. They were actually licensed gun dealers and if I recall about 40-45ish. I'm sure your point is valid, none the less.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

I misunderstood. My apologies.

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

I believe Yarvin has Jewish heritage on his father’s side. I think there’s a psychological term for this where people identify with their oppressors. Kind of like Steven Miller, a Jewish Nazi.

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

What, don't you think that Jews can hate their Jewishness? Maybe they believe like the Nazi's taught them that to be Jewish was to be weak? So rather than to believe that they CHOOSE to be the aggressor? Who the hell knows what goes around in the addled heads of people that that won't or can't accept themselves are they are. There are a few Jews that believe that Nazi's are right, like Stephen Miller for instance. He'll never see himself as Jewish because that would in his preconditioned brain means he's weak. They don't compute!

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