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naraburns  nihil supernum  17d ago (text post)   26884 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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A reminder that Thiel and Yarvin (Moldbug) got shitfaced in 2016 during the election night. I dunno what both are doing tonight but this election seems ore emotionally charged than 2020.

I still find this anecdote funny as both Thiel and Moldbug have gone on record to say that they do not believe in this process and explicitly not endorse Trump at times. Still, somehow many important figures today have long ties to both, Elon via paypal, Vance via vc stuff, Anton via his middle school apparently and Moldbug being someone who quite a few within his staff were aware of. Thiel was the first prominent guy to endorse trump, 8 years later, the guys who worked with him are the most important people in the campaign. He makes good bets.

This is not analysis, just found it funny.

2017 will go down as one of the most interesting years in recent US politics. So many names and ideologies competing for attention and relevance to fill the void from the end of bush/cinton/obama-era politics. Neoreaction was fringe, but almost everyone who was in a position of power knew about it, that's how deep its influence was.

NRX became a thing in the 2010s, PUA, hbd and transhumanism are ideas from the 2000s that were important. I learnt about them in that order with PUA being the very last. Moldbugs older work, xenosystems by land, spandrells essays etc are fairly decent.

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