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Michael A's avatar

I appreciate the sentiment behind the “something needs to be done” approach, but it feels incomplete without a clear explanation of what exactly will be done. It’s important not to just highlight problems but also propose solutions.

Democrats seem hesitant to take decisive action—whether it’s locking Musk out or even shutting down the government. Musk is an unelected individual, and it wouldn’t be out of line for Federal judges to send Marshals to arrest him if necessary. Yet, Schumer and Jeffries continue to talk about a magical “bipartisan solution” without outlining any real steps forward. And Waleed you have fallen into this trap as well.

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Burke's avatar

Well said Waleed!

The NYT's interview of Yarvin reminds us that a key method of his Butterly Revolution plan is DECEPTION. Yarvin mixes historical facts with self-serving lies. He and Elon and Trump and Vance are skilled and bald Liars. We must parse every word and claim. Watching the tech billionaires speaking about their yearning for political power, they are not skilled Liars. Thiel and Andreesen just tell us straight that they want to make America into a serfdom. The Iron Hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&t=500s

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DC's avatar

I saw this video and have read reporting by Gil Duran and Jim Stewartson on this subject as well. I also saw the video you posted. It’s sounds absurd and conspiratorial, but it’s not and it’s happening right before our eyes. I have no idea why the Legacy Media would ignore this, but it’s exactly what the tech oligarchs want to do and are doing. I have seen considerably more coverage of this on social media and as mentioned above, there have been reporters who’ve been sounding the alarm. However, like all mainstream news surrounding this or any Trump/Musk issues it’s censored to a degree for sure.

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Cindi McCormack's avatar

Yes! Yes! Yes! And yes! Thank you for bringing this out into the light. I feel like I have been yammering about Yarvin for months and getting no traction and blank stairs.

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Cindi McCormack's avatar

*stares

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Birgitte Rasine's avatar

Blank stairs would be good. They're slipperier when you accidentally bump into a dictator climbing them...

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Nona's avatar

Great article. Bringing up Yarvin’s RAGE plan and seeing how it’s currently being implemented would strengthen the argument further!

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Howard W. Gordon's avatar

So far, implementation of the Dark Enlightenment seems to be a failure. Hopefully it will continue to fail and we will fully restore democracy in 2026 and 2028.

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Brian Tanguay's avatar

Yes, bingo. We need more media attention on these people. Shady Vance is only slightly less dangerous than Trump.

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Mary Enright's avatar

Thank you for your clarity.

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Bruce E. Woych's avatar

The scramble for hard power is being orchestrated through corporate financed capital pools of political campaign legitimated capital that now is the primal engine run by wealth interests. Musk is the center of gravity. But while most everything noted in this expose is readily observable (if not undeniable as an ongoing operational organization: corporate style-- none of this could be possible without the legal system and the legal officials standing back and standing by. Where is he counter-strategies of the elites being victimized? Why is there no collective collaboration and single minded opposition? Why is the media echoing talking points instead of asking critical questions and holding lying politicians feet to the fire and officials in power accountable? It is hard to believe they are just in a stunned pause waiting for the tide to turn and others to get things started. The money class wants to be a ruling class and it is not only the right wing extremists that believe they will end up sharing power. The corporate minded power money dies not believe in "externalities" and see only internal success, succession and survival as a process of progressive intensification and expansion of powers (and anything in the way is simply expendable or extinguishable. At this time democracy, and a population that has been colonized to create capital redistribution and growth for that ruling class exemption, is simply under reorganization, downsizing and subject to a manipulative hostile takeover (makeover). It is not a matter that these people are denying democracy or the constitutional constraints that form the republic's social contract. the fact is that they don't even think its real. It is simply in the way and they will keep pushing the course of least resistance persistently and relentlessly until it disappears from being consistently unenforced. The legal system is under a market controlled consensus. The laws have already been market rendered through capture and control fraud. Mobilizing society seems impossible if the process is so set in motion that even educated and honest individuals are so overwhelmed that they self censor. Swarming , flooding the zone, cognitive dissonance, the big lies and emotionally conflicted identity polarization is at a constant daily pace. The internet uses people more than people get to utilize the internet to catch things as they happen. By the time it is discussed the rivalries and talking points are already at a dead heat going nowhere fast as the next assault is made on the structures of democratic boundaries and constraint. Obstruction of justice, so well demonstrated by massive money, high priced colluding legal shills, compromised authorities and now an executive office occupied by a convict and confidence man has become judge, jury and executioner one parcel at a time. Unfortunately, only the people actually being hurt at any given time is actively concerned. And they stand alone. Talk is cheap from media marketing opposition, and some of it is genuine but almost always leading from behind. After all, they are corporate as well and have self preservation under market survival as priorities. So where do we stand? First, let's recognize that the biggest constraints and restraints to resistance are our own peers. Before we might hold levels of power in accountable view, we must empower and educate others to create 'conformity' to a unified understanding. Only then will mobilization of a democratic movement be able to confront the crony anarchists that are using capital to front their power seizing plans, and using class divisions to self defeat any collective will. Stop thinking party and start thinking unity. I had a recent meeting with a very intelligent individual tell me proudly that he was a libertarian (thinking that is a flexible enough adaptation to fit all sizes). I told him I was a New York American; period ! He stared at me for a long pause and said, convincingly: I hate labels! We've all been branded. We need to unite. And then---fight.

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

I’ve read about the guy and he needs to be dealt with. Ridicule him or imprison him or both.

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Ronin über dem Nebelmeer's avatar

If Yarvin disappeared tomorrow, his book recommendations will continue to influence future generations of leaders. Thomas Carlyle, DeMaistre, Sorel, Bertrand Jouvenel, Gaetano Mosca, Vilfredo Pareto, James Burnham. Are you going to burn the books of those long dead writers? Did the attempted assassination of Dugin in any way stop people from reading his works?

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Cindi McCormack's avatar

Never forget that YARvin said many slaves were happier before emancipation and all the women in Jane Austin’s books seemed very happy.

YARvin a provocateur who finds all this amusing just like all of this tech bros who look up to him like he is some kind of edgelord.

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Jason Egenberg's avatar

Trump just declared himself above the law—and he's proving it. From gutting the DOJ to stacking the courts, his power grab is happening in real time. This article breaks down how democracy is unraveling—and what must be done to stop it.

I would love your thoughts on the piece.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/the-rule-of-law-vs-the-rule-of-trump?r=3nm35j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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