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Yeah, I mean where else could you look around right now and see evil, corruption, and incompetence all rolled into one?

"cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, and a bumbling incompetent" describes like half of MAGA.

The world will have to get over its shock that the person who coined the term "Intellectual Dark Web" and admired its deep thinkers its a corrupt and not especially competent person...

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The level of willful naivete it takes to not realize these qualities dont just go together. Theyre practically pre-recs for each other

Good piece on the Bari Weiss/60 minutes fiasco by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...

Good primer on "Furious Minds" by @lkatfield.bsky.social

New piece! Laura K. Field provides an overview of her book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, touching on the key themes, figures, and her approach. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

America narrowly missed another major news network falling into Trump's personal patronage system. We need to fund independent media. Our funding goal is ambitious for a publication our size, but a rounding error compared corporations and men like Ellison. Help us meet it gofund.me/31dac76b6

If you read @lkatfield.bsky.social book you'll see the paws of many of the characters in the book on the National Security Strategy. Strongest Anton (Claremont/NatCon synthesis) but also Hazony, Miller types & even less known ones like Reno, Krein The anti-Europe bit might be their anti-Locke kink

I'm with people like @mattpolprof.bsky.social in thinking that the most plausible versions of liberalism and socialism are converging theoretically anyway.

It was Adam Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments who insisted that reverence for the rich was one of the greater perverters of our moral sentiments and who called for ameliorative programs for the poor and efforts at combating monopolies. @mattpolprof.bsky.social

Curtis Yarvin is the Garth Marenghi of Carl Schmitts.

Thanks Toby!

most downloaded interviews in 2025: 5. plato's tyrant @carolatack.bsky.social 4. ignoring politics @chrisfreiman.bsky.social 3. the eu @simonhix.bsky.social 2. the political right & equality @mattpolprof.bsky.social 1. it's fascism @kjephd.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com

Montreal will never be as good as Toronto Erik ;) But this could bring it a lot closer.

We could have a socialist running for mayor in Montreal! I would be curious to hear @mattpolprof.bsky.social reaction to this. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

And make sure to read @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book, I highly recommend it! www.amazon.com/s?k=furious+...

Thanks to @gregsargent.bsky.social for this pointer. A good reminder that it’s not just Trump we’re dealing with. “the story of how a group of well-heeled men (and they are almost all men) have fought to reclaim the authority and deference they believe is owed to them by the lower orders.”

Thanks Erin!

Have read several articles by @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Especially like www.commonwealmagazine.org/bronze-age-p... Fantastic!!

Thanks for sharing. Just bought the book.

Google Curtis Yarvin's name and Dark Enlightenment. They are channeling chaos to break society down and use parts for their own personal benefit. They are no dissimilar to Nazis who also had rituals they performed.

Everyone should read this book review (and probably the book too!). Conservatives do not want equality. The rest of us need to take that threat as the mortally serious one that it is.

Are they *really* "big ideas"? Or are they just bad ideas people have historically and easily dismissed, only to be dusted off, lacquered with a veneer of intellectual (and that term is used loosely) rigor, and shopped to an audience that wishes to have their absurd, poisonous agendas legitimized?

"In a cosmic battle between the forces of chaos and the forces of order, telling the truth matters less than upholding the capital-T Truth by whatever means necessary. I think that Field is right, but I wonder if this problem is unique to the right." IT'S UNIQUE TO THE RIGHT.

Thanks @gregsargent.bsky.social

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on the intellectual roots of MAGA, with a focus on the sheer opportunism of MAGA intellectuals who opportunistically glommed on to Trump: www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

Lot of interesting things in Hayek's book, but as a reading of Marx this is very wrong. Funnily enough Marx had a pretty similar critique of Mill

'I'm so nervous, what do I do with my hands?' 'Can you put your hands in your jacket pockets, you know, like James Dean or Bob Dylan?' 'My jacket's too tight and the pockets are too high.' 'Get a bigger jacket?' 'Do you see how long these sleeves are already?' 'Can you hook a thumb in your jeans?'

Great book @lkatfield.bsky.social

A great review from @mattpolprof.bsky.social, who knows this stuff very very well. Screenshots here of my favorite parts:

if you're interested in articulating that vision, consider supporting us in writing The Reconstruction Papers answers, where others have none. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

Good podcast on enshitification with Sean Illing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

My buddy sent me this from when I was doing my PhD and had a small role in his indie film as basically an 80s revivalist I want the bandana back

Hanging with their bestie

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Incredible photo selection. I challenge Moldbug to do one (01) push-up

Thanks buddy

This should be worth your time reading.

My review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's S Tier new book "Furious Minds" on MAGA intellectuals is out with @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

Thanks @integralrising.bsky.social!

New short review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social. The book was a great read & I especially enjoyed @lkatfield.bsky.social chat with the boys over at the "Know Your Enemy" pod. www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

Thank you tom. I describe liberal socialism (though not everyone would) as a species of democratic socialism, which is itself a broader tradition. Obviously there is a lot of overlap in that most every democratic socialist remained committed to certain core liberal freedoms...

@mattpolprof.bsky.social I just finished reading TPTOLS and it was really enlightening. I’m curious to learn more about the overlap between Liberal Socialism and Democratic Socialism, to the extent the Venn diagram isn’t a circle.

Its a testament to moral degredation that they're not even bothering with the Bush administration's thin effort to have vice pay tribute to virtue by lying about some noble cause for invading Venezuala. Instead its just "lolz yeah its oil bro. Whens it otherwise?"

He (Stephen Miller)is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?