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Cake day: September 4th, 2023

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  • It’s called “Buy, Borrow, Die”, and that’s exactly what they do. They buy or inherit assets, hold them indefinitely, because they have no monetary value until sold, and take out loans using those assets as collateral. Then they just pay the interest on the loans, and then play with the money. Southern slave owners were doing a similar thing before Emancipation. The lax rules of Southern banking even allowed them to take out multiple loans on a single slave.



  • So, Behind the Bastards did a special on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) and his “Butterfly Revolution” that’s really good. One of my favorite takeaways was that this guy definitely got the everloving shit bullied out of him as a kid. However, like most incels he refused to believe that he was the problem. Coming from a background of privilege and wealth, he believed it made him naturally superior to everyone else. It certainly didn’t help that his IQ got him recognized by John Hopkins University, and he was selected for a study on “mathematically precocious children”. He was an early adopter of the Internet when he went to college, back when it was Web 1.0. He would post and congregate with other individuals like him on Usenet, before the Eternal September happened.


  • Google the following:

    “Mencius Moldbug” and “Butterfly Revolution”.

    But to summarize it all: Gothic MAGA is basically about destroying America as we know it, government and all. Dissolve the borders and reform the nation as thousands of small countries called “network states”. These “network states” would be owned and controlled entirely by oligarchs, and would compete for citizens the way corporations compete for customers. By necessity, the oligarchs will have total control within their borders. Massive, omnipresent surveillance apparatus to watch and control their citizen customer/workers, but if you don’t like how one network state is oppressing you, you’re free to leave.(Provided of course, the brutal tyrant doesn’t have a rule saying you can’t leave unless it’s in a body bag.) At least, that’s how Curtis Yarvin(aka Mencius Moldbug) puts it. And because he’s also a racist far-right POS, he’s also a eugenicist and thinks because he’s got such a high IQ that naturally he and other high IQ individuals should be in charge. The POTUS would be more like a CEO who works on behalf of the oligarchy, who would be the country’s Board of Directors.

    It’s a lot like the early “seasteading” movement, but repackaged because not everyone wants to live at sea.