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I keep trying to tell people that the US is over when JD Vance becomes POTUS next year because they will attempt to get him behind the desk before the election.


Why would they do that? And why would it be the end of the US?


JD Vance and Peter Thiel are followers of Curtis Yarvin who ultimately wants the end of democracy and freedom of speech to create a "CEO for America" who can make decrees at will. JD Vance is Thiel's protege and the reason JD Vance is VP is because of Thiel's support.


I had never heard of Curtis Yarvin... though his views aren't exactly novel or unique.


Whether they are novel or not isn't important. What is important is that he has the ear of the VPOTUS and the CEO of the largest private surveillance network.


Yeah they are … he’s really cooky in a narrow and specific way.

Frankly tried reading his stuff, and it becomes gibberish. At one point he calls his political philosophy Jacobitism, which was a real ideology at some point, but it bears no connection with anything else bearing the name.

He’s basically just repackaged Thomas Carlyle with some interesting personal anecdotes.




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