ReturnedHermit
kiwifarms.net
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- Aug 5, 2021
if you're a neoabsolutist I just want to say you guys are probably the smartest part of the right that isn't just straight up manipulating crypto. Seriously, big brains over there. If you're on the more orthodoxy/monarchy/neoreactionary side of the spectrum that's another matter. The problem with everything those people have to say about politics is in how little they have to say about changing the present situation in any way whatsoever. Its like they're trying to seduce a woman through chess skill. Most of them are doing well financially so maybe their distant view is the result of distance between themselves and poverty. Either way if you want to give reading assignments instead of making an argument, I can't imagine you really believe in anything at all. There is nowhere near enough dressing in your post to justify so much salad.Read Joseph De Maistre or alot of the classical "Counter-Enlightenment" if you want a debate regarding "the consent of the governed". I despise Marxist and Wahhabist schools of thought because I believe that religious persecution by the state is quite possibly the most evil thing a government can do (like how the Mormons and Natives were treated by the US government) but I still read Marxist philosophers to get an idea of why they believe what they believe. "first rule of war- know thy enemy". Opinions are like assholes because everybody's got one- but looking at the behavior of the vast majority of Americans (and people in the EU) today makes me believe that universal voting rights is a terrible idea. Even the hyperbole example set by Starship Troopers where only those who had already provided a number of years to the civil service had the right to vote sounds like a better idea than having people like the Qanon shaman have the same amount of political clout as someone like Elon Musk.