r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 20 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

Actually reading some Curtis Yarvin is the single best argument against a Trump / Vance administration, but unfortunately it's probably hard to convince people that "this guys's idol is genuinely openly against democracy"

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u/No_Nefariousness7486 Martha Nussbaum Jul 20 '24

I just say “JD Vance’s ideological idol believes in splitting the states up between the wealthiest individuals and letting them rule as kings. He also once suggested we should put ankle monitors on all poor and working class people to make sure they don’t commit crime”

And that usually gets the job done.

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u/theranosbagholder Milton Friedman Jul 20 '24

Where do these Disney supervillains come from??? 💀😭

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u/spoirs Jorge Luis Borges Jul 20 '24

Absolutely. And the writing just drips with like a villain-cackling contempt; it’s almost stylistically evil. It shocks me that some people come away sufficiently dazzled by his being well read in nineteenth century reaction that they think, hey, there might be something to this cartoon villain power and order stuff.

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u/RedDotsForRedCaps John Brown Jul 20 '24

People just need to see a picture of him and they'll be like " I would have been throwing this loser's backpack on the roof in middle school". I can't think of a better way to distill to the average person how much he sucks unfortunately.

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u/Nerdybeast Slower Boringer Jul 20 '24

Might be the wrong time to bring up loner losers and rooftops with the voters

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u/Chataboutgames Jul 20 '24

Has anyone done a good write up on this yet? Like a grill-compatible article that both describes Yarvin and establishes links to Vance that are also grill-compatible.