JD Vance, Curtis Yarvin, and the End of Democracy

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[@Newton-Reuther]

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[@jacobgillispie1175]

Could you cover the book "Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: Or the Realm of Shadows" by Henri Lefevbvre

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[@michaelHassler-dl9ux]

Democracy doesn’t work just read the The machiavellians defenders of freedom

[@oneofus6924]

a ceo is a dictator, he said the quiet part out loud

[@TheKiroshi]

He HATES the quiet part, he just doesn't want to be Antoinette'd

[@PopeOf420]

Well... O Heard they were ACTUALLY called: Weenie Potatoes. Ya Know? Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Smoke 'em in a Bowl xD Buh - Duh - Tsshhhh hahaha

[@jimswindvids2905]

Do you see the words “dictator” and “monarch” as synonyms? Also, would you believe that a democracy/republic such as ours could ever be a tyranny? (Or basically is one right now). Just trying to get a gauge on exactly how brainwashed you are, stranger.

[@piccalillipit9211]

YEAH companies are dictatorships

[@BaldAndCurious]

CEOs can be kicked out by the board or shareholders. That's the diffy tho

[@joshh6483]

“If you’re a mermaid you’re in hell.” … because of global warming?

[@hpvamp246]

And oil spills and plastic pollution.

[@RealBradMiller]

Ridiculous. They can just buy all the homes that Aquaman is selling! Right, Ben Shapiro?!?!

[@RealBradMiller]

Aww. My joke was removed for some reason.. so I cannot say they should "buy their homes from Aquaman."? Got it!

[@alexanderclaylavin]

In the mythology, they beckon seamen to their deaths. So you got misogyny and pagan legend there no extra charge.

[@FatherTime89]

@@alexanderclaylavin this feels like saying vampires are misandrist since they're almost always male (and there are male mermaids IIRC)

[@surturiel]

All I see is a lot of dudes that never felt loved and hugged by someone.

[@WisecrackEDU]

very un-hugged dudes

[@Lord_Ralph]

🤣🤣🤣 🤗

[@djangokill65]

I see a lot of dudes with mommy issues

[@Gildedmuse]

​@@djangokill65That's unfair. Some of them have daddy issues.

[@leetommerson639]

Y'all need a hug?

[@codymayak3920]

Wisecrack proving Socrates warnings that the Sophist will convince the world they are philosophers.

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Nice catch.

[@maxpower8429]

Hate to break it to you, your watching philosopher content on KZbin. You might be the problem

[@supernoctifer6469]

@@maxpower8429 something tells me you never had the type of brain to understand philosophy.

[@luizf.p.andrade993]

Don’t know if someone already said this, but Integralism is literally the name of Brazilian brand of fascism from the 1920s and early 30s

[@luizf.p.andrade993]

Also, Brazil has always been deeply catholic, so that’s that

[@magnus_cockstrong]

It's not about helping anyone, it's about controlling everyone.

[@vm5954]

Christianity is a roman twist of the ethiopian one Ethiopians version does not have christ in it It also the home of the world’s first church

[@JasonLaveKnotts]

All people with power seek the only thing that matters to those who have power, more power.

[@arcturionblade1077]

Yup. These incel white supremacist tech bros just want to control power, money, women, etc. They feel entitled to all of these things simply on the basis of their supposed racial superiority.

[@rafalrocks]

sounds like the Left's strategy. That's what you meant, right?

[@ryangarrard3135]

​@@rafalrocksits the right too. I don't see the difference in these corrupt on either side.

[@ClockwerkMan]

So telling that Yarvin doesn't understand why hot girls wouldn't want to attend his kind of parties.

[@iamalittler]

Accent on girls

[@cannondebris]

I love how Moldbug looks exactly like what you'd a imagine a neo-monarchist blogger to be like.

[@chammo10]

Dude’s doing his best impression of Gríma Wormtongue if he were a tech nerd.

[@Intelligence_Failure]

idk man, I didn't expect him to look like a poor.

[@gaywizard2000]

An anal wart with a bad wig?

[@9000ck]

@@Intelligence_Failure tech nerds are wealthy people who always look like poors. Its how you recognise them. 30 years ago it was sort of cute. Now its just sinister.

[@Intelligence_Failure]

@@9000ck but he kinda actually looks like a poor. to me, a poor.

[@rahcollier7006]

Yarvin, just write your shitty sci-fi novel and get it over with.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*WHY DO THESE SUPREMACISTS* always assume THEY will be the ones in charge - These weeds would be sent down the bitcoin mine to work for US...!!!

[@DizzyBusy]

😭 Because at the end of the day, these thought exercises are basically power fantasies. But we all know that.

[@islifeacomedy3861]

Where does he make this assumption? Or did you just project your own ideations?

[@dreyri2736]

@@islifeacomedy3861 You have to understand that, if it wasn't obvious from his comment alone, progressives are often psychotic control freaks who bark like frightened little pocket dogs whenever they feel the assurance of their continued access to the pleasure machine to be threatened.

[@krunkle5136]

Curtis always says he wouldn't be the one in charge. He just likes masterminding on his blogs.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Michael once wished that we would get a politician in power who is a fan of philosophy. And a finger on the Monkey's Paw curled.

[@niklas03010]

Curtis Yarvins philosophy is what happens when you mistake Blade Runner for a utopia.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

The "AM seems like a pretty nice guy" thought process.

[@danielbuehner4273]

I was going to say the Shadowrun universe rather than Blade Runner - but there are a lot of similarities there.

[@Raziel312]

Night City was meant to be a warning, not a blueprint!

[@Spookybacon-jg9vp]

I've followed Yarvin for awhile. I've always thought RoboCop or Judge Dredd.

[@cedrickulacz8468]

​@@bazzfromthebackground3696unrelated but... Is that Mina as your avatar?

[@heavymetla666]

Yarvin would be corrupted by Sauron if he was in Middle Earth.

[@connorletkeman5002]

Now that you mention it, he kinda looks like wormtongue

[@stephancarlozzi8928]

He does already look halfway through his Golem metamorphosis

[@popejaimie]

But Peter Thiel has Palantir

[@i_i8924]

Looks like Adar corrupted elf father to the orcs from LOTR: Rings of Power 💍😂

[@itscarl0zyall1]

He looks like filthy Wormtoungue

[@lutjemuller9753]

As someone who grew up as a lutherian christian in germany, I never really understood how America is so fond of christianity, as Jesus himself is described by the evangelist Luke as pretty much anti-capitalist, pretty much stating, that its almost impossible for rich people to go to heaven and low key feminist, as he allows Maria to sit with the men and even berates Martha for not doing so, basically equaling out gender roles. Jesus was also obviously a very tolerant man, as when explaining his love thy neighbour policy he pretty much explicitly says that every single person in the world, no matter who they are, where they come from or what they believe in and look like is said neighbour, pretty much a one world one love hippie sentiment. All of this feels really far away from the people who are most interested in christianity these days, especially in the US. Do christians in the US not emphasize the evangelion as much? Do they just look over the Jesus part and stay in the old testament?

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

As someone who was raised Catholic in Hungary, visiting Lutheran church services in Germany somehow felt strange to me, like, you can do that with all this, too? I think it all goes to show that you can build either a very strict and authoritarian or a "lefty" community on the core tenets of Christianity. Examples for the former are medieval Catholicism and the Puritans in early America, while for the latter, are Catholicism nowadays with Pope Francis or Christian churches in Germany.

[@charlesjurgus]

@@lutjemuller9753 just like in the islamic world... theology is the barrier to commiting evil through or against the community... so it is the first regulating administration which must be captured. Just as with its foundation... the protestant reformation was largely facilitated by magnates seeking to suspend and seize for themselves the Catholic Church's local franchise of divine intercession. You know... for beer.

[@quietspark8703]

Honestly from my lived experience(American and Christian(Liberal)) it seems like certain groups focus more on the OT than the NT and that focus tends to turn Jesus into more of a warrior than the socialist he clearly was(objectively not politically, but arguable either way).

[@charlesjurgus]

@quietspark8703 yeah... OT is definately more along the lines of... [ok, this is the crazy s... we get up to when we're on the back foot and the scyth is swinging...] where as the NT is a conscious response to the shannanigans of the OT [ ...forgive us, we should witness our fault and let us NOT get up to it again... let us be guided by compassion, mercy and forgiveness.]

[@ezmackgaming]

So many of the people that emphasize Jesus as a hippy or socialist tend to just gloss over the "Go forth and sin no more" aspects of Jesus. As for your interpretation of his love thy neighbor policy, he most definitely did not accept people no matter what they believe in, as he said that those who deny Me before man he shall deny before the Father. Loving thy neighbor isn't just accepting them as they are, but includes an imperative toward righteousness.

[@vebdaklu]

Soooo, instead of the logical, historical, and straightforward conclusion of "capitalism leads directly to fascism", he says "democracy leads directly to electing Hitler". And even crazeir, his solution to that is "Why not just jump to Hitler right away?", because he also believes "Hitler was a swell guy, actually". The insanity is that this is clearly absurd and contradictory, even on the most basic level, but people will actually swallow it, just because this is the narrative they are most likely to encounter. No mainstream media would dare counter this with even mild sanity, and sadly, the reach the internet is not as wide to be an effective counterbalance. Get ready for WWIII, people. It's coming very soon. Hope we make it.❤

[@MrJpc1234]

In what universe is that claim that claim logical, historical or straightforward.....unless you stretch the defenition of the word "fascism" to the point of meaninglessness

[@edupunknoob]

You know rich people don't read when they just casually recreate published satire

[@G27pat]

The wealthy prove that hoarding is a psychological problem that just happens to hurt everyone but them.

[@pdeezzel]

Reminder more billionaires and wall street types support Harris.

[@connorletkeman5002]

Yarvin's biofuel suggestion is giving "modest proposal"

[@dreyri2736]

@@connorletkeman5002 which was a satire, which Yarvin knows and has read but the progs who read him are too thick-headed to realize. Yarvin's response to that article was hilarious. He just restated his idea that he thought homeless people should be placed in safe spaces where they don't harm themselves or others while, according to him, progressives just want them to rot outside in the streets.

[@felixmortem487]

"We used to own all the money and land, and we still do but it's not as fun now." -Bo Burnam, Straight White Male

[@djangokill65]

The death throws of the white, Christian, patriarchy.

[@anarchistscum6090]

Me a straight white man whose family has been destitute since the 1890s: “…”

[@Eldorado-n9e]

This isn't even true. There is a particular ethnic group wich has always been overrepresented among the rich and they're not white.

[@NE-BO]

Trashworld is a post grung band with their debue album "I have plastic in my balls"

[@WisecrackEDU]

that's one of the best album titles so far.

[@Soilfood365]

Post Grunge was also what I was going to say. With a distinctly white, suburban edge; along the lines of Blink182 - you know, NIMBY punks who want the system torn down, but not so much that they have to go without their favourite Vape flavour or their adults-only gummy bears can't be ordered for next-day delivery.

[@Lance_G]

Trashworld - Life in the Can: A Garbage Experience

[@Bentus0000]

Micro Testicular Plastic

[@JohnMoseley]

I think they're Japanese and very hyperactive and colourful and the music's a mix of EDM and thrash metal. First album: Happy Happy Capitalist Skull Blood Ritual.

[@zmo1ndone502]

Ah man.... gotta love the good old days when men were Men, woman were woman and the church taugh against the EVILS OF MERMAIDS....WHICH DEFINITELY EXIST BECAUSE THIS SMART BOOK TELLS ME SO

[@LilyAC-h3z]

"One big depressing exercise in resentment" should be the title of a book about our current affairs.

[@paulmfennelly1047]

Power founded on resentment. They might want to consider that so called "strong" people fight each other like rats in a sack over nothing more than egos (the epitome of weakness) all the time. What's their take on the lives and deaths of historical monarchies? It wasn't all roses and salted beef.

[@nigel-Rollercam-channel]

Trashworld would be a string quartet playing covers of Nine Inch Nails and Tori Amos songs, the first album would be called Get me to the dump on time.

[@WisecrackEDU]

wish I could've booked that band at my wedding.

[@prodigal_southerner]

I'm not proud to admit I would probably buy that album.

[@morgothable]

@@prodigal_southerner I am proud to admit that. It sounds awesome and weird. I really want to hear a string quartet play Closer. That sounds like a horrifying experience.

[@Phennex]

@@morgothable (slower version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIfVZomqhtuoqKs (faster version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3amcoOGaJ57pJY I'm sure there's other versions out there as well to be able to find one to suit your tastes lol Merry Christmas 😁

[@vincentdaniels2596]

So let me get this straight. These guys are persecuted but also can take a WHOLE MONTH and say whatever the fuck they want and face no consequences for it. Did....did the definition of persecution change?

[@Gildedmuse]

I've heard more from the supposedly censored right in the last five years than I think I had in my other 30 years.

[@TylerRein]

It’s always the least persecuted that shout about it the most. They are usually the ones with the microphones so to speak.

[@AussieGriffin]

I'm seriously not kidding when I say I'm thinking of writing a children's book to parody these people and warn kids against becoming like them. I'm thinking of calling it "If the mouse can defend its claim to a cookie without stopping anyone else from having a cookie, then let it have the cookie you anti-rodent bigots!" (It's a work in progress) A.G.

[@Beauweir]

You know religious persecution if you're in a country like Iran. There , Christians have to worship in secret in 'house churches'. If they are found out, they are taken off and never seen again. That is actual Christian persecution. They aren't making God's not dead in Iran!

[@distributistsshrekvideo]

They got their own channels to say those ideas because they were being supressed in the mainstream. Moldbug (Yarvin) got his fame little by little on substack.

[@alwinlowdham2670]

"real enlightenment has never been tried"

[@brendoncrave504]

“Despot? Yes. aka CEO” bro just gave away the WHOLE game

[@Musa-keys]

18:53 “I was promised that with one job I could support my 3 kids have a house and 2 cars. Now I lost all my worker rights. I can only barely rent a house, I am three times more qualified than my dad and work 5 times as hard”. That’s the reason why people vote this insane people. From Chengdu to Cape Town, from La Plata to Edmonton, from Lyon to Chiayi, nobody can do what their parents did. Everyone is angry. Either Blackrock or State Owned enterprises sucked up all the resources and the land and we all feel like serfs. Radicals all over the world are channeling the anger. And the billionaires are funding it. But it will not end well. For nobody.

[@brunojalles7174]

That's the reason why the real left should not compromise and always opt for the lesser evil

[@paulmfennelly1047]

You got it. Case in point is the suicide rate amongst US farmers. One of them had an epiphany with a gun barrel in his mouth. Took it out of his mouth and dutifully started campaigning against his serfdom by taking on the "5 meat packers". There are clips of him testifying in Congress against the agribusiness monopolies. Yeah, that's right, US capitalism is not fair, free or of value. We need something worthwhile!

[@deanaarmstrong3976]

So they vote for the people who will make it 10x as hard to own a car or house? that makes sense.

[@dreyri2736]

Note that you still haven't explained why you should not be a serf.

[@captainroberts6318]

​@@dreyri2736nobody should be a serf, because it's fucked up to do that to people. Please tell me you're trolling

[@9000ck]

Basically it's the Handmaid's Tale. Also; all these people are chronically online connected to their computers and keep talking about 'escaping the matrix.' Does anyone else see the obvious irony here?

[@joshuacr]

As they're building their own matrix, they're claiming they're trying to escape to? Nope, don't see the irony here at all. 🙄

[@MrHodoAstartes]

I mean, they'd still be trash, even if they were on Estrogen.

[@RictusHolloweye]

Is the irony the fact that they have turned the work of transwomen into a central facet of their ideology?

[@aesop1451]

No, you're mixing metaphors. Handmaid's Tale is Jerry Falwell. It's Protestant nationalism, and they don't get along with the Catholic monarchists. The Protestant nationalists have fallen out of favor since 2016 and the major conservative leaders (Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and JD Vance) are Catholic. The Catholic monarchists don't like the secular neoreactionaries. Curtis Yarvin doesn't have a problem with abortion and he probably isn't too different politically from Bill Clinton.

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

@@RictusHolloweye Andrew Tate keeps referring to the matrix, too. Oh the irony.

[@wariodedede]

"we want them running towards the sound of gun fire". Holy fuck. It went from rifle pins to guns in classrooms to making children face down a killer. These people are unhinged.

[@PoopSqueezenuts]

until the cia stops grooming autistic teenagers into mass shooters, we must continue to train our kids to defend themselves burgerpunk 2024

[@dapperbunch5029]

Liberals when they hear of heroes and of bravery: 😳

[@PoopSqueezenuts]

@@dapperbunch5029 children should not be gambled for heroism and bravery, you sick bastard. Get off of our planet, go directly to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200

[@Cyromantik]

@@dapperbunch5029 What is a Liberal?

[@dapperbunch5029]

@@Cyromantik Do you want the actual definition or the way I am using the word?

[@TheWordsmythe]

"Rent a cabin and read Hegel" sounds like the Wisecrack version of the Theology Beer Camp. I'm probably down for either, honestly.

[@ezmackgaming]

Yarvin has criticized capital saying that "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" and that this mechanism may be one of the drivers of the "inevitable collapse" he refers to in this video. I don't follow Yarvin extensively, but an element that is rather central is to pierce the veil of the American system hence the red pill/ the matrix aphorism. People are brought up to believe things about the way American government works only to become distraught over it not functioning the way they think it does. When thinking of America as a monarchy he often cites FDR as an example of American monarch. A good portion of Yarvin's world view seems to stem from looking at the world as it is rather than as we're told it is or how it should be. It's not necessarily that Yarvin prefers monarchy, although he does proclaim himself a monarchist, but through examining how American government actually operates contrary to it's founding document and principles that it effectively already operates as a monarchy with many lords(ceos) but no one king to unite the realm to whom those lesser lords are beholden. CEOs/corporations can just ride out a presidency and use money and influence to install a more favorable president(monarch) when their term is over leading to a cucked executive branch to go along with a feckless legislative branch. The ship of state at present is not just rudderless, it's without drive adrift upon the open sea. People often think of the American government and constitution as this blueprint for a machine that's supposed to produce diamonds, but instead yields turds. You can either come to the conclusion that it is a diamond machine and has been adulterated over time to produce turds or that it was never a diamond machine and instead was a turd factory from the outset. The one thing you can't do is gaze upon the turds and call them diamonds, or rather you can, but no one else is obligated to believe you. There is the belief that monarchy is bad because you might get a bad king, which is a valid concern. However, democracy has the same flaw, but rather than a bad king you run the risk of a lousy citizenry which was a concern expressed by the founders from the outset. A bad king can be deposed and replaced, but what of a lousy citizenry? The Democrats seem intent upon replacing the citizenry, but not due to lousiness, but as a means to cover up the shoddiness of the Democrats. There's a quote I've seen from people Yarvin adjacent which is, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." You can complain about how terrible the government is until the cows come home, but at the end of the day you have to remember that you voted for it.

[@DamienAlexander-Ducroix]

If corporations have so much power as you say, why allow Elon Musk to basically be President-Unelect?

[@DamienAlexander-Ducroix]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I fail to see how implementing a dictatorship, backed by mobs and state repression apparatuses, will improve things.....except by giving them a common enemy.

[@deadhead4077]

ooooooooo Wisecrack should go through a dark intellectual period for Spooky season

[@ClarkEli-l8v]

Yeah definitely more that needs covered

[@NicolasJimenezBarea]

Dark enlightment

[@theargawalathing]

​@@NicolasJimenezBareaTime to build my magic deck out of the youtube comments

[@tahahammadia9380]

​@@NicolasJimenezBarea it's anti-enlightenment philosophy

[@NickRedstar]

The nerds in high school are now living out their revenge fantasies.

[@cockatooinsunglasses7492]

These were the nerds that wished they were the jocks in high school.

[@enricobonomi9471]

The hateful nerds

[@arnold-ho8kh]

And now that trumps won we're coming for you

[@dreyri2736]

It's funny, because Yarvin has used that exact same analogy on progressive politicians and the motivations behind many of their grievance politics.

[@MrSggurcs]

That was you 2020, shitheads

[@P1ranh4]

Questioning Capitalism is really not that easy for people coming out from the end of the cold war and neoliberal philosophy. It's often sold as human nature, a parallel of nature's survival of the fittest in economic form. That's also why free markets are an ideological ideal: It's just natural. Now they are not neoliberals and steering the market isn't a tabu anymore, but to question our capitalistic system is akin to questioning natural laws for them. So of course they need to look for other explanations elsewhere. Scary and frustrating that tech bros who have a lot of fans and support (and if they don't have it, they buy it) are going down this rotten path and drag US politics with them.

[@prodigal_southerner]

That's due to their ignorant assumption that selfishness is a better survival strategy than selflessness.

[@shivandragon1651]

We've moved away from capitalism though, I'd argue we are not a capitalist structure, but we are a capitalist society. I think the thing that gets people the most imo is that people think it's inherently going to produce big corporations. But that's only unregulated capitalism if you look at the Nordic countries and most of Europe they are in no way shape or form a socialist society but much closer to the idea of capitalism they have smaller businesses that make them a lot more resilient and form more of a competitive environment which is good for the consumer bc it's driving the prices down while in most socialist society it's one of more usually an oligopoly which drives prices up due to no competition in the market. Plus if you are allowed to own your own business aren't you technically owning the means of production straight up like think ab it the issue is no one has a steak in anything anymore so allow people to start their own business and make profit and I bet you the city's will get better not worse, it's not for selfish greed until it's corporate.

[@TheRealE.B.]

I love it when my Catholic family members say they're being "persecuted" at a time when the sitting President is a Catholic and Catholics are disproportionately represented both in Congress and the Supreme Court.

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

I guess what they're saying is that the soft power of Western pop culture doesn't take too kindly to traditional Catholicism, which is true. Just one facet of this to mention is that ever since the sexual revolution, not only does traditional Christian chastity and expecting Catholic priests to remain celibate not make sense, but the latter are somehow regarded as perverts for denying a basic human need (remember, sex is classed along with food and shelter on the Maslow pyramid of needs).

[@conchettalaporchetta]

@@erzsebetkovacs2527somehow?

[@msdanny182]

I laugh at loud when everything about this video is that "i want to have sex with the cool people but they think im weird so I will wait until everyone is as weird as me so Im not longer weird". I love it haha.

[@Avery_Beausoleil]

Curtis Yarvin/Mencius Moldbug really chose the Harry Potter Deatheater position politically, philosophically and aesthetically.

[@joshuacr]

And seriously!

[@brassen]

To my defense, English isn't my first language, but I was sort of ashamed that HP was the first reference I went to after hearing that name. "WTF! Some sort of Potter universe Name Generator?"

[@Cyromantik]

@@brassenYou're definitely not the only one, nothing to be ashamed of!

[@LonkinPork]

It's simple, really: just don't take anything seriously from someone that thinks "Mencius Moldbug" is a cool fake name

[@AllofJudea]

I guarantee you own the entire Harry Potter set though

[@LonkinPork]

I do not. They're mid at best, even by the standards of children's literature. Now what, shipdit?

[@oftenspanx]

I'm getting a little sick of feeling legitimate anxieties over these backwards ass would-be fallout factions.

[@AnimatedTerror]

They make the vault-tec look subtle.

[@Casshio]

Lmao, best description I've read in a while.

[@scotchrobbins]

Now would be a really good time to develop practical skills for yourself and organizational skills for your community. Just saying.

[@BreadthStick]

Then stop watching fear-mongering youtube videos

[@amacot656]

Same here, it's scary to see that something like that is happening and gaining momentum... it's like they are actevily working to destroy the systeme that made them powerful and rich so they can become dictator themself, wait, that actually what they are doing... and now i need some blanket and hot cocoa to relax my nerves

[@christopherboehme7804]

I'm 72, and studied philosophy at Wisconsin in the early 70s; read the philosophers that Michael alludes to and more; still read it. That was back in the day when stating your assumptions and providing evidence for them, and adhering to the principle of noncontradiction were a thing.

[@caseybroadway3088]

I am a Christian, conservative, 40 something, white, male, veteran police officer and this is probably one of the scariest and most depressing things I've heard in a long time.

[@robertlindey2538]

Are you going to vote for Trump/Vance anyway? Would it be worth paying two dollars less for a dozen eggs?

[@caseybroadway3088]

​@@robertlindey2538not at all. I was in that space for so many years pre Trump and MAGA. I know how manipulative that space is and I hope to help others to find their way out of it before it's too late. But the little influence I have pales in comparison. I think this video hit the nail on the head and I hope it breaks through.

[@Bricicles]

@@caseybroadway3088keep up the good fight brother. Survival of the enlightenment will not come from passivity.

[@WiggaMachiavelli]

Yeah I'm not surprised that someone who worked in the police force has below average intelligence. What else?

[@benjaminrudy9942]

My band Trash World would play Dream Metal with our first album called Recycled Thoughts

[@WisecrackEDU]

great album title.

[@jasonlazar6402]

That is a great title for an album. Do you mind if I use it.?

[@jasonlazar6402]

I’m sorry. I don’t want to plagiarize. I thought that was a joke.

[@JaimeNyx15]

However you feel about capitalism or religion in the modern world, people like JD Vance and Curtis Yarvin shouldn't be allowed anywhere near power.

[@SageWon-1aussie]

Can I get an "Amen".

[@druemancospr]

That's not very democratic of you

[@stormburn1]

@@druemancosprTrue, stopping fascism would be fascism, after all.

[@SageWon-1aussie]

@@druemancospr I thought being able to express your views is democratic?

[@JefferyTheriault]

​@@SageWon-1aussieJust understand that some people's views support you becoming a serf on their estate.

[@trey1531]

As a white Catholic male, I have never heard of either of these world views.

[@WisecrackEDU]

yes same they are definitely on the fringes.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

Conservatives would call you "not christain enough."

[@petehjr1]

"Not a REAL Christian"

[@OrdinaryCatholic1]

As a Catholic myself, I noticed how the far right has co-opted Catholicism specifically the Traditional Latin Mass. Pope Francis is restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (pre-Vatican II form) , because bad actors on the Far Right are using it to go "back to tradition" which in includes a Monarchy and lost of voting rights not just women, but also working class men and non-land owners. They want feudalism.

[@gaywizard2000]

​@@WisecrackEDUexcept people like JD Vance and the Trump appointed Supreme Court are into this stuff!

[@runeskyttsing9089]

We are living in dangerous times.

[@bennyhauk]

No connection provided to Vance here in this entire piece, despite the author claiming a connection exists, other than finding a Vance quote where he admits to reading Yarvin (not “affirming Yarvin” as the author claims). In fact, if anything, the author affirms (agrees with) very clearly the quote from Vance, starting at 26:50. The author agrees that “much of what Vance says is true” and then goes on to agree 100% with the Vance quote he referenced. I have no idea who all these people are, how fringe or not they are, but the author hasn’t provided anything that would indicate that these guys’ philosophies align directly with how Vance sees the world or would govern. The story is projecting things that just aren’t there.

[@LB-io4tn]

No connection, because there is none. This is propaganda BS masquerading as philosophy. It’s shallow and daft, sadly

[@afreaknamedallie1707]

I just cannot fathom being a whole and complete person with cognitive abilities above median and wanting to have a monarchy. My brain just refuses to accept this belief system.

[@JH-lo9ut]

The best argument for a constitutional monarchy is that it seems to have a stabilizing effect on a country's politics. Can't explain the mechanisms, but if you look up a list of constitutional monrchies, you will find many of the world's most stable and prosperous democracies. This may be a chicken-or-egg situation but it is an interesting observation. Maybe this is not what you meant by "monarchy" but there you go.

[@afreaknamedallie1707]

@@JH-lo9ut several issues: are literally ANY of those states a monarchy now AFTER having been a democracy for any amount of time? Next, how many of those monarchies are anything other than vestigial? Like a constitutional monarchy where the rulers are that in name only is hardly the same thing as the kind of tech-monarchy being described here.

[@joshuacr]

It's almost like repression stops any type of political difficulty. Isn't it weird ​@@JH-lo9ut

[@solepsis]

@@JH-lo9ut constitutional monarchies are not what they are talking about… constitutional monarchy always separate the head of state, the figurehead, from the head of government, the actual administrator. In a constitutional monarchy, there’s usually a Prime Minister or some other person who is the head of government. They want the monarch to be head of state and head of government, like the president, but with unlimited imperial power. It’s already bad enough that our president in our republic has more power than King George III could’ve ever imagined… But as constitutional monarchy have limited the power of their kings, we have given more power to our president.

[@AussieGriffin]

​@@solepsisTo be fair less than seven people gave criminal immunity to a position that is looked up to by most of the planet. A.G.

[@coryascott]

We do live in a society where slavery is grey area Millions of people have performed slave labor in American prisons

[@itsROMPERS...]

Are performing it as we speak.

[@G27pat]

The messiah of the ruling class is just the 7 deadly sins incarnate. Greed, Lust, Wrath, Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth. Capitalists are the antithesis of Christ's teachings because it places the wealthy above all others, the love and pursuit of power at the expense of all others. These ARE the false prophets, false teachers that lead the flocks to slaughter, all to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

[@RetsaGames]

Ins insane the huge disconnect between jesus teaching and today's christianity.

[@AzyrealLal]

Well said

[@joshuacr]

​@@RetsaGamesI believe you mean false prophets instead of Christianity, but yes.

[@jamesclark1001]

Having been in a mass shooting, many people ignore one critical factor. Deconfliction. How will each good guy with a gun know who is the bad guy if a dozen good guys show up without a unified plan or uniform to identify each other. It will look like that Spider-Man meme, but with guns.

[@Paradoxarn.]

This video: "Real enlightenment politics has never been tried!"

[@subjectively_objective]

Thank you Wisecrack for what you've done and continue to do in making this kind of knowledge accessible. I started watching Thug Notes after reading Animal Farm when I was 15 or so 10 years ago. It is videos like this that remind me the only way I will ever be happy is if I dedicate my life to helping society forward from a lens of equity, in whatever way I can. You are doing a great job on your end. When I struggled with mental health, purposelessness, powerlessness, I came to understand, through the indigenous philosophies of Turtle Island, that there is always a way to build community and spread compassion, no matter where you are. Don't let the vices of the world draw you into selfishness. "When one sits in the Hoop Of The People, one must be responsible because All of Creation is related. And the Hurt of one is the hurt of all. And the honor of one is the honor of all. And whatever we do affects everything in the universe." - Lakota Instructions for Living passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman

[@njay4361]

Omg!!! Thug Notes was my favorite!!! And ending it with a Lakota quote?? You are a rare breed of awesome 🫶

[@AllofJudea]

You won't get far in reality if you think "equity" among people is possible. Here's a fact for you : people are not in fact born equal. Some are smarter than others and always will be. Also, IQ is genetic, but no one is allowed to address that.

[@edenisburning]

Not even being hyperbolic here.. there is a LOT of new age fascism going around right now. I'd even venture to call it a straight-up, new age, global fascist movement. Scary stuff, eh?

[@druemancospr]

Yes, by the left

[@edenisburning]

@@druemancospr Left wing fascism?!? That makes no sense at all. Fascism is a far right ideology. Far left is communism.

[@stormburn1]

⁠@@druemancosprSo true, bestie. Get those woke moralists!

[@fionafiona1146]

I'd appreciate if they'd actually understand intersectionality like the original ones did. Look up red-pink triangles on camp victims

[@zarbins]

@@fionafiona1146 It was the left that originally mis-and-reinterpreted intersectionalism for their own gain. Their reaction to it is based on that.

[@Trizmonsta_of_Philly]

Their faces when they find out their not going to heaven

[@huricanethreeonesix]

And you are? 😂

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

​@@huricanethreeonesixThese people think people like Musilini are in heaven, because they said they were christian. If that's the type of clientel you cater to, I don't wanna be a part.

[@huricanethreeonesix]

I was just poking fun at OP. Wasn't a statement on the topic

[@SpoopySquid]

"None of you are seeing heaven." - Seto Kaiba

[@solepsis]

@@huricanethreeonesix Jesus straight up said that rich people don’t go to heaven. That might mean bad news for a lot of people in the developed world…

[@Camoback.Ape7]

It’s so good to see someone with intelligence combating this stupidity going on in these people’s heads! Thank you!

[@Paraselene_Tao]

12:30 This idea of filling the bureaucracy with religious folks lines up well with Schedule F of P2025. 👀

[@DustinLaGriza]

9:10 "Full Hindu garb" and doesn't know how to explain what a Sari is to his daughter--like, it's a dress, that's it. Imagine him taking his family to Scottish Highland Games, how would he ever explain a kilt to his daughter?

[@joshuacr]

" Man, dress"

[@madisonashton1750]

Right like gosh these people. Hey daughter people have different cultures and that’s okay. All you have to say.

[@chriswarder6016]

My reaction was, "We're mad at Hindus now? Is this about the cows?"

[@Uruz2012]

Probably the exact same way... "Scottish garb" just means "clothes like they wear/wore in Scotland" just like Hindu garb means clothes that Hindu people wear.

[@itsROMPERS...]

You hear the same crap from clowns like Ben Shapiro, "Two men kissed, how do I explain that to my son?" They present it as being some sort of justification for discrimination.

[@kirkspaziani]

Yarvin’s “cathedral” was lifted from Eric S Raymond’s essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which discusses the ability of those outside the power structure to work together to create superior works. Yarvin however just invents a new Cathedral. Very strange and dumb. Raymond has his own set of problems, just pointing out the whole thing is weird and dumb.

[@Papawcanner]

Yarvin and Theil look physically ill as well as mentally sick .We are witnessing the rise of the fourth Reich .

[@TheStoicPragmatist99]

I love this youtube channel, because even if I largely disagree with you on many topics. You do successfully get me to really really think about my ideas and how I view them.

[@WisecrackEDU]

Thanks a lot, that's very cool of you to say and makes us happy to hear.

[@Btn1136]

Don’t rest until there are tanks in Harvard Yard, frens.

[@JefferyTheriault]

The worst part of this is that these kinds of people all imagine that if they manage to get their revolution started, that they or their idols will manage to be, or remain in charge of it. That once the goal is achieved, they will be able to stop the violence.

[@NotSeregnar]

I'm glad more people are shining a light on the Moldbug. Like you said, the Behind The Bastards episode was great. I remember reading about some sort of "Dark Enlightenment" and something about the Cathedral back on Reddit in the early 2010s. I thought it was just a bunch of edgelords, but even at the time I could remember noticing how the rhetoric was spreading like wildfire on 4chan and some subreddits. I've hated seeing this movement go mainstream in the GOP. These freaks seems like the type of people who would want a human as a pet.

[@JefferyTheriault]

A disposable pet.

[@backyardretards5684]

Oh god, is cybersmith a dark enlightenment guy?

[@isaac1670]

One of the things that makes Yarvin and people like him so dangerous is the fact that they are never satisfied. To start, these guys are already coming from a position of power. Yarvin and his followers come from a heavily financed, and connected position. They also have influence on systems that control more and more of everyday life and yet they're still persecuted in their minds. They have all the means to be happy yet they are so miserable.

[@JefferyTheriault]

Insatiable greed for POWER over the rest of us.

[@Eldorado-n9e]

This is the polar opposite of the truth

[@themsuicjunkies]

​@@Eldorado-n9e are an Elon burner account? Where is the Roadster man?

[@davidoffice9922]

What's up with all of the nerds going over to the sith. Yarvin looks like that wormtounge dude from lord of the rings..

[@JaceFalcon]

He was slighted by healthy people

[@billmozart7288]

I uh... I understand what you're trying to say but this is too many mixed up universes.

[@ianm2757]

Too many people told nerds theyd be in charge when they grow up

[@beck2752]

One too many rejections. Instead of looking inward, they look outward.

[@w00tyd00d]

Moldbug played Outer Worlds and went "You know what? This could work."

[@majinvegeta6364]

Trash World is the name of my emo-punk band, and our last album was titled Collection Day

[@churchofmarcus]

I hope my daughter asks me about strange cultural clothing we see out in public so we can look it up together.

[@00RoxPink]

Right lol? If this happened to me I wouldn't be upset at all. Those poor kids are asking an innocent question and their parents are filled with hate.

[@LaurentIpsum]

Trash World would be a grindcore band that did a single song about Danny DeVito and his wrestling persona as the trash man in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. One song, the song would go viral, the band would break up, people would stop talking about it after about 3 months.

[@geo-fry6372]

Perfect answer

[@AnimatedTerror]

Then it would blow back up every 10 years for three months.

[@slothachunk]

It's amazing that the same people who espouse a governance that would give more rights to one person over another can never see themselves as the one who wouldn't benefit from that model. They truly have no concept of empathy.

[@Pepesmall]

I mean we literally have tons of those already in real life. Countries with dictators, countries run like corporations with a dictator CEO (socialism,) corporations run like countries as a dictator ship (Disney lol, oil companies, Trump)

[@Eldorado-n9e]

Why should a master identify with a slave? I'm not someone else. I am me.

[@slothachunk]

@Eldorado-n9e Yes, you are you, and what you are is a horrible person.

[@slothachunk]

@Eldorado-n9e With that sentiment, anyone could justify just about anything no matter how heinous. It's also narcissistic, and on par with saying: "Why should I care if I eat babies alive? I'm not them."

[@Eldorado-n9e]

@@slothachunk Not really since morality is not based around empathy, at least in any mainstream moral system. Morality can be an useful tool for acting morally but it's not where ethics are born out of. Also you fail to consider how empathy might be useless since I could not be anyone other than me. There is no Indian or Nigerian me, there is no female me, the body is not an accident.

[@offensivearch]

23:15 That's because when Curtis talks about academia he isn't talking about philosophy and other impotent areas of study, let alone whatever community college philosophy classes you were teaching. Curtis Yarvin was talking about that portion of academia that actually wields influence and is the incubator for the managerial class.

[@malcolmhatfield1330]

Finally, someone in this comment section who has read him.

[@00PlPu00]

I cannot imagine having the patience needed to sit and read Yarvin... Thank you for your hard work. And I am sorry you had to go through this.

[@vilmariehernandez1189]

My friends and I were just talking about the philosophy of the right and I was expressing how I'm genuinely considering trying to get citizenship elsewhere. As a latina, the finger is being pointed at us for a lot of the problems that have really nothing to do with us but instead with late stage capitalism. I can't imagine staying here and raising a child here when I can't hide my heritage, and just by being myself, I am at risk.

[@etaylor8028]

Where you considering to move to?

[@joshuacr]

I heard Canada is nice this time of year before the extremism migrates North

[@LastnameFirstname-j7p]

Why didn't you stay and change the government in your base country ? What made you move to USA and complain here and not there ?

[@canopusstar5157]

I’ve been working since 1967 to change things. How well has that gone? Any woman who wants to leave this country should be able to do so. It’s hard.

[@captainroberts6318]

​​​@@LastnameFirstname-j7pdude what makes you think she's even from another country? Do you really think there aren't Americans with Latino heritage? What made you move to America instead staying in your 'base country'

[@sdeepj]

On the Behind the Bastards podcast, they were talking about Yarvin with Ed Helms. Helms said Yarvin sounded like Dwight Schrute. Honestly, if given the choice, I think we would be better with the Assistant to the Regional Manager than a tech CEO

[@raydunn8262]

Thank you. I wish they would tell what drugs they partake in so the rest of us can avoid them.

[@joshuacr]

All former addicts who think they're seeing the light.

[@alexbarriga983]

they're white and rich, sooo wild guess here, but my money's on cocaine

[@tonywords6713]

The operating principle is that it's ALWAYS projection, so following from that it is logically safe to assume they are literally eating babies for their adrenochrome lol

[@TheLukeStein]

@17:34 All the kings and emperors and warlords and aristocrats (who got to have an opinion at the time) were not a fan of popular democracy. Interesting.

[@coonhound_pharoah]

You summed it up when you said, "it's just a sign that you're stupid." Democratic processes may or may not lead to the will of the People being implemented. There is are strong reasons to believe the results of Democratic processes only approximate rather than reflect the will of the People, especially in the Winner Takes All system of voting. Decision Theory rightfully points out a ranked order system would be superior. At its core, the reason Democracy is better than non-democratic processes is because peaceful transfer of power is possible under the system of law. In other systems the law does not provide a means for the People to replace an oppressive ruler. It requires violent insurrection. Long term peace is the most important factor of all for economic growth, prosperity, and human flourishing. It is not accidental that the most powerful and rich nations are those where it has been the longest since bombs and artillery destroyed the infrastructure. Even if all of the criticisms of Democracy are true, this simple fact that no other system can provide the means of a peaceful transfer of power under conditions of changing opinions makes Democracy/Republicanism (not Republican like American Republicans, republican like the Roman Republic) the best political system available. Ironically, Moldbug is not a very good philosopher, even for people pushing these kinds of ideas. Indeed, these are the people that pushed me away from libertarian ideology with their authoritarianism and incredibly lazy thinking. Hans Hoppe, who shares similar ideas to these, is at least kind of a "real" philosopher in the sense he actually makes philosophical arguments. Moldbug isn't a philosopher: he's a guru.

[@SvenTheBadass]

Trash World sounds like a Muppet/Sesame Street metal band where the gimmick is they’re all characters that were thrown away. First album is “Wearing Trash Face” and the central theme is calling out Oscar the Grouch as a phony

[@connorletkeman5002]

Your mind is beautiful

[@izzle_exe37]

These people are the same kids you'd meet at the playground and would boss everyone around, tattle tell, be class pets, or just being an overall nuisance bc they have a superiority complex..

[@adrianaslund8605]

The thing Carvin said about Breivik and comparing him to Nelson Mandela makes me want to have him extradited.

[@manfredbobski8114]

Finger to nose. Excellent, approachable explanation to why the rights message has such traction. I hope our time is not an turning point in history. So many disparate issues seems to be culminating against Democracy. I always wondered what it was like to live in Rome at the end of the empire. I hope it remains an idea.

[@danielsanchez9891]

What's interesting to me is that the Christian traditions that seem to be the most Christian-nationalist are baptists or non-denominationals (which are just baptists). Historically, baptists tended to be the victims of established churches and were often persecuted and censored by the government. Because of this, baptists have tended to be wary of established churches and hierarchical authority structures, which is why in baptist denominations, churches have very little power over one another. Historically and theologically, baptists being Christian nationalists is strange. If they looked at their own history they would see that blending church and state only works well for the flavor of Christianity in power... until that flavor falls out of power. They forget that what led the baptist tradition to flourish and have the political power it does was the separation of church and state.

[@dreyri2736]

You already have a connection between a church and a state. You have always had a connection between a church and the state and you will continue to always not live in the fantasy land contrived by a handful of unaware enlightenment-era thinkers like John Locke, Voltaire, and Jefferson. You just believe that there is a very special difference between your ideological edifice and that of some other religion, because yours is "politics" while the other is "religion". Politics inherently involves decisions about ethical matters which often derive from religious belief or cannot be empirically verified in some idealized neutral "objective" point of view.

[@purplezart]

i can't believe that michael wouldn't tell us who the gayest roman emperor was 😔

[@WisecrackEDU]

the results weren't conclusive. but let me know if you figure it out.

[@joshuacr]

I'm stunned if it's not Caligula but prove me wrong everyone.

[@solepsis]

@@joshuacr Elagabalus was almost certainly trans. “call me not Lord, for I am a Lady"

[@joshuacr]

@@solepsis snickering for justice!

[@fionafiona1146]

​@@joshuacrcalligula was closer to his horse then little boys At least it's easy to identify the most trans fem Roman emperor

[@Hstevenson69]

My genre for the band named Trashworld would be Soviet post punk rock(but actually good). The first album would be named "Grouch's revenge" with a post-apocalyptic sesame street as the album cover.

[@natitachulita]

Well, you read my mind Mr. Burns. Curtis Yarvin, is an protagonist and Christian Nationalism is a made to justify the cynicism, a obsessive sense of entitlement that "controllers" will defend to death. As Dr. David Viscott perfectly describes in all his work, specially in his book "Language of Feelings" he mentions the three basic human characteristics: the "Competitive", the "Dependent" and the "Controllers". Most wealthy people are clueless and very hypocritical, due to their sheltered upbringing, they want to be loved but, couldn't recognize real love that abounds naturally in all living beings. This child -daddy /surf-king is a response to their own perpetual denial, rejecting reality, worse of all is the proof of our fragile existence. It is not a joke or a stage, (typical euphemisms) the complexity blinds them. They will intentionally lie and build a whole pseudo-civilization around that given lie. To me it is just a story they made up, but because they also have the means to promote the lie (story) to push their narrative (on all the dependent folks) despite obvious flaws. While in the background you'll find the hoax's masters (Competitive minded) crafting the latest show, gala, lawmakers, starlit paraphernalia, weapons aimed at the dissenters...

[@afriendyouhadonce]

Band "Trashworld" Album "Planetary Clusterfuck"

[@WisecrackEDU]

you're signed to our record label.

[@warpdrivefueledbyinsomnia8165]

Aw, man. I wanted to do a Primus cover band with that name. That's a dope album name, though.

[@cmata2]

Isn't the Vatican basically a corporate monarchy?

[@justanotherbluebelt2691]

Just wanna play devils advocate here and share that I am a moderate liberal that goes to a heavily liberal college. And in my experience the “white man” is most definitely being discriminated against. Examples I’ve heard are, “if a white guy says he’s 100% straight then I can’t trust him” or “if I show up to a class and the teacher ends up being an old white guy then I’m dropping the class immediately”. I’m Hispanic so these statements don’t directly attack me but I can’t help but see the troubling bias.

[@deanaarmstrong3976]

Really? That's just one person or maybe a few people. Personal examples do not make a reality. If you are actually going to university, you should know that there are several fallacies in your thinking when you write this, and you post it on a philosophy vlog. Cite an actual peer reviewed study showing that white men are being discriminated against. You can't. They aren't.

[@justunderreality]

I'm going to make an attempt to get something more out of this than "these people are insane": I think if we look at these "new philosophies" we can see to the core of what has driven some of these cultural drivers that still dictate much of the hardest systems to change. They are striving to justify the remnant of the monarchy that has a last foothold in capitalism and tech authoritarianism and revive the divine right/natural order of old. If they succeed, they will reinforce the myth by creating a new "truth" via a (for lack of a better term) technological religion. The hope is that they fail and then the humanity can take another small step forward before the climate crisis makes us all desperate.

[@ferra51]

My only critique of this video is that you continue to perpetuate the notion that rich white guys who got into Ivy League schools because of who their parents were have ever been “well educated.” They’ve been well pedigreed, but they’ve never been educated, not in the way you use “educated” here.

[@Pepesmall]

Being educated doesn't mean you are intelligent, or smart, or learned, it just means you were educated. Can't force someone to listen

[@ferra51]

@@Pepesmall I mean, you could call it education when someone gets a degree via the “gentleman’s C,” but I wouldn’t call it that.

[@alancampbell8008]

As one comedian once put it, no professor in a state school is in front of their class going, “Yeah, I was going to teach a different lesson today, but that would cost you $40k a semester and none of you look like you have that in your pocket today.”

[@dabluflcn]

This is just feudalism with extra steps. We like, fought a war over this I’m pretty sure.

[@pierregibson6699]

A lot of wars

[@dabluflcn]

@@pierregibson6699 repeated cycles of wars

[@fionafiona1146]

The 1848 spring of nations had gorgeous art, I love their music

[@Xokzu]

Hear those rhymes? That's history, and we're fucked.

[@Devon686]

If I had a band named Trash world, it would be a metal band that sounded aggressive and angry but every song actually promoted finding positive meaning in a world filled with negativity.

[@thefrank446]

Yarvin is the greatest political philosopher of our time.

[@WilliamCarterII]

MLK in hell while Stonewall Jackson in heaven is nasty work

[@MrTooEarnestOnline]

That line out my in a sour mood. Im angry now

[@Atlas3060]

Band: Trashworld (think Dethklok from Metalocalypse) Genre: Metal First Album: Plastic chokes the turtles Description of songs: Singing about how the Earth is basically a death world filled with pollution and trash. How we're not only the survivors, but also the reason why the world is a death world. Make it sound metal as hell.

[@solepsis]

Jesus actually says “But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly.” But we can’t expect the Theo Bros to have actually read the gospel…

[@SpoopySquid]

He also had strong opinions on rich people

[@ultraparadoxical7610]

This is a solid take on this. Good historical context.

[@amys0482]

This deserves millions of views. I had Jordan Peterson deja vu reading Curtis Yarvin.

[@sormiliha]

Not really a believer, but a lot of these conservative christian guys seem to be in a dire need of exorcism.

[@quietspark8703]

Christian here, kind of agree at this point. It's unsettling for sure.

[@dakinayantv3245]

I've heard somewhere that integralism was an early form of fascism.

[@redroverredrover679]

Yes. From Brazil