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Nom Nom de Guerre's avatar

YARVIN IS BACK BABY

I started this one thinking he's suffered a loss, he has an awe-inspiring responsibility to his kids, maybe he's a changed man.

Man is he not.

The problem with conservatives is the more you hammer the point home the more they thank you. You're getting hammered. Don't thank your server! That's for paid actresses at the end of certain videos that shouldn't exist because no one would want that for their child.

To the point of the article.

I've taught a lot. College kids, tier 1, hard subjects. In my teaching I learned to repeat myself. No matter how many times I've seen this exercise or experiment, for the student it is the first time. It's pre-first-time.

So I adopted a rule: For me it is always the first time. It worked by all measures.

This is what Yarvin is doing here. He's repeating himself. For you.

If it isn't Nock, "The ideology of the oligarchy is an epiphenomenon of its organic structure." is damn close.

One might ask "is Nock the right thing to repeat?" He puts a lot of other material around it, and that may help some people, and maybe helping those people is a positive.

At the end of the day, Yarvin's and my own repeating serves a filtering function. I was a cog that ensured buildings will stay up and cars won't burst into flames.

Yarvin is a cog that ensures you are ruled properly.

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Ketmando's avatar

Thanks to GM I am more and more thinking of everything only in terms of “power”. Both sides of the radio dial seem even more idiotic.

In groups, and on average this power has to do with coherence of coalitions.

In individuals it has to do with skills.

Our host has mad skillz, and I’m always skywheeling on the high updrafts of his prose, looking to swoop down and peck at the Diamond-perfect fires he’s set for us.

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