Vance is cribbing ideas from tech’s anti-democracy wing.
  • IHeartBadCode
    21•1 hour ago

    calls for a “benevolent dictator” to run the US

    These chucklefucks keep getting this part so wrong. No dictator stays benevolent for long. We’ve got something like 60 centuries of history to back that up. Eventually they demand unwavering fealty to their, and only theirs alone, lineage.

    I feel like sometimes dressing up as Gandalf and smacking these idiots over their head and reminding them “only one who can bend them to his will. And he does not share power!”

    Like for fucks sake this is such an ingrained human trait we’re making fucking fictional stories based off it and needing zero additional information on why anyone would desire such a monopoly on power.

    I swear the lot of these people have their heads firmly planted deep into their lower digestive tract.

    • @[email protected]
      5•59 minutes ago

      These degenerates are also completely incapable of choosing someone who would be benevolent even for a moment. They just want someone who hates the same people they hate to be able to bypass checks and balances to hurt the people they want to hurt. There’s no deeper political philosophy here.

    • @acosmichippoEnglish
      1•21 minutes ago

      These chucklefucks keep getting this part so wrong. No dictator stays benevolent for long.

      Not just that, the implication here is that “benevolence” is objective, which is a fundamentally religious point of view. But in the real world, one man’s benevolent dictator would be another man’s tyrant.

  • @BrokenGlepnir
    9•2 hours ago

    Of course he does. He used to work for known neo feudalist Peter theil

  • @acosmichippoEnglish
    5•1 hour ago

    weird that the article doesn’t clearly link monarchism in general and RAGE specifically to Project 2025.

  • @kat_angstrom
    20•3 hours ago

    The Verge basically just copied the notes from the Behind the Bastards episodes about Curtis Yarvin. A frustrating experience to listen to, and read about as well considering how Yarvin is so very full of bad ideas

  • The Snark UrgeEnglish
    7•3 hours ago

    Pretty sure monarchism consists of one idea

    • MudMan
      3•3 hours ago

      I mean, you’d be surprised.

      For one, without reading the full thing I may agree with the headline. If you’re a Constitutional Monarchist who thinks having the head of state be a symbolic figurehead with no real power or capacity to intervene in politics I may not disagree with you.

      The US could elect Trump as king and let him spend his days waving at crowds and attending weddings, maybe doing the jerk-dance in receptions with other monarchs. A remarkable number of democracies operate this way and do alright. Certainly better than letting him run any country for real.

      • @horse_battery_staple
        10•2 hours ago

        Trump isn’t the problem. His rhetoric is. Giving him a a figurehead position just hands him a megaphone to spout more of it.

        • MudMan
          1•2 hours ago

          You’re taking the joke a bit too seriously. But hey, in any case it doesn’t seem like he’s struggling on that department. I haven’t seen so much media attention devoted to unbearably annoying ramblings applied to a monarch. They mostly just sit in the corner and try to avoid reminding people that ceremonial dynastic positions are an anachronism.

          • @acosmichippoEnglish
            1•1 hour ago

            because he’s a candidate. if he loses a second time that will change.

            • MudMan
              1•1 hour ago

              I mean, talk about an incentive to go vote for Harris if you can.

              • @acosmichippoEnglish
                2•1 hour ago

                yeah, that’s usually how it works.