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> neo-reactionaryism is growing especially in tech circles This will be great news to the neoreactionaries. How do you figure? > because it communicates a lack of concern with the …

No, the school of social philosophy associated with Carl Grünberg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse. Check out Eclipse of Reason, Escape from Freedom, The Str…

Doesn't change the fact that you inserted your radical politics into a technical event that you were not planning to attend. You are the fascist here, Steve.

Moldbug explicitly disavows fascism, yet here we are. If we're going to split hairs we need to be consistent.

Most neoreactionaries I know don't care much for the Enlightenment at all. Some pine for monarchy, others for Skynet, still more for the farm. A difficult bunch to generalize, unit…

De gustibus non est disputandum :) Life is too short to do a lot of silly things like veg on junk TV or fart around on Twitter or read the entire Harry Potter and the Methods of Ra…

> Anti-racist and anti-fascist organizing happens under the mantle of a thousand different groups all over the world. And yet we are asked to believe that an obscure blogger flirti…

A lot of people who blog on these ideas maintain pseudonyms to prevent Strangeloop-like witch hunts ruining their professional lives. Neoreactionary ideas have been picked up and d…

>Do you notice the contradiction? No. Distributivism comes to mind.

Some important context to recognize in this incident is that it was a handful of explicitly (leftist) political personalities that rose any stink to begin with. Clark more or less …

Looks like this person edited their comment. Anyway, you're right, Noah Smith is one of the less objective filters you could seek to fairly summarize a right-of-left-of-center view…

And I'll tack on a mention of an explanation of Moldbug and his movement from the perspective of an economish blogger Andrea Castillo. AKA me. https://theumlaut.com/2014/07/29/a-ge…

The manner that SK evoked CY's politics has not only been rude but literally dismissive - resulting in the cancellation of an interesting technical talk. This boils down to persona…

If CY's writing on Carlyle is relevant, why is noting that SK lobbies for more programmers to integrate Marx and other left-radical writers beyond reproach? http://blog.steveklabni…