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Utterly irrelevant. Your point was that Ukraine's economic problems are due to the Russian invasion, which is false. Losing the Donbas may have made things a bit worse, but Ukraine…

Spoiled brat living under Uncle Sam's protection feels entitled to give advice to non-effete countries whose armies have actually seen combat since the 1940s.

English, please.

Pogromming does not require "great men", only envy and resentment.

I blame Oedipus.

Moldbug allegedly acquired enough loot during the dot-com bubble to afford spending 7 years at home reading something like 1 book per day. That could be 2500 books in total. Histor…

> How would you know if that's a dollar better-spent? You bet and you learn which bets pay off. If some bets never pay off, perhaps it's time to cut losses. > WWI was also very muc…

Yet, it was the horrible, horrible Europe that Moldbug mythologizes and romanticizes that made virtually all advances in science and technology until a few decades ago. Ancient Gre…

Harmful to whom?

> I don't think intelligent people are better at predicting things I never claimed such a thing. I meant predictive power when it comes to allocating resources, especially from the…

Nixon also made Vietnamization a high level goal of his presidency. How did that work out? Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing fr…

You don't need to understand intelligence that well to change the world. A little predictive power can go very far. In the end, it's a bit like playing roulette. A small edge and m…

Ignorant? He probably read more old books than you -- which does not mean he understood much. He spent 7 years of early retirement burning his dot-com loot on Amazon.

You give the CIA too much credit. Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. Pinochet was an opportunist who jumped on the bandwagon when it…

Once the full implications of evolutionary biology are grasped, eugenics will inevitably become part of the religion of the future, or of whatever complex of sentiments may in the …

It's well-known that the Nazis imported eugenics from Yale and Oxbridge. And eugenics was publicly defended by people all over the political spectrum until 1939. After 1945, it wen…

Mythmaking and mythbusting do not have to be mutually exclusive. If one can recognize the former, the whole can be edifying.

> his understanding of the material is well below that of a first-year history student Met plenty of history grad students in grad school. Well-read but intellectually very limited…

The cold leftovers can still be highly nutritious to those raised on processed, mythologized, state-endorsed pseudo-history.

Patrilineally, Yarvin is Jewish.