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   SocProf (socprof@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 02:24:53 JST SocProf

   He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

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     SocProf (socprof@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 02:24:52 JST SocProf

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     "Yarvin continued: “You’d actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”

     Bill repeated this.
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     "Elsewhere in the podcast with Anton, Yarvin talked of the need to mobilise the base of the party – its ordinary supporters – in the service of the cause. Yarvin postulated this could be done with an app that supporters would download and take instructions from when opponents were identified." That would be X from which Elon can launch the mobs against any target.

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     "Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”

     Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”