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Hanson isn't a neoreactionary. He's an elderly economist who loves freedom of speech and likes to be a bit trolly at times.
He never wrote a single important nrx post, didn't comment in nrx spaces, is not known for long edgy political posts either. His twitter interactions with Nick Land run to a grand total of cca 20 replies over 9 years.
Roko, no idea what he was up to but if he was nrx then, he was,at best, a lurker. You're free to find counterexamples to this, the entire xenosystems blog is archived. and practically everyone involved in nrx commented there while it was running.
Breitbart simply was never really good, and the article was co-written by Milo, who is an untrustworthy charlatan and that article of their is just plain bad. NRx wasn't really influence on the alt-right, contrary to what lazy journalists thought..
There was little overlap between the two. You can check out how a typical Xenosystems comment section looked like here. Then compare it to lesswrong.
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Compare the tone, informational content and themes and make your own judgement.
This is important. The alt-right is populist - it takes for granted that its core agenda is supported by the silent majority of "real Americans" and that its enemies hold power by some combination of mass media enabled deceit and the votes of imported "fake Americans". (Allegations of actual electoral fraud aren't part of the traditional alt-right playbook - they started with Trump - but are now routine as the difference between the alt-right and the MAGA right collapses).
NRx is unashamedly elitist - its foundational texts explicitly reject "ideal democracy" (rule by the masses) as impossible and real democracy (disputes within the elite settled by elections) and even "demotism" (elites legitimising themselves by claiming mass support whether or not this is actually tested at the ballot box) as undesirable. The rest of the Thielosphere is similarly elitist, but quieter about it.
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