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IcelandUNL freshman competes for Iceland at FIBA U20 EuroBasketHERAKLION, Greece — Nebraska freshman Leo Curtis is set to showcase his skills on the international stage as… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iceland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IS</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europa</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FIBAU20EuroBasket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FIBAU20EuroBasket</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#france</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/groupD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#groupD</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Heraklion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heraklion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iceland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/island" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#island</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Serbia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slovenia</a> <a href="https://www.europesays.com/2236741/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2236741/</a>

MLB NewsOpposition research: Curtis Mead – The Good Phight <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/6196/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/6196/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Baseball</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curtis</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrontPage</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/good" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#good</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/mead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mead</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/MLB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MLB</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opposition</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/phight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phight</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Rays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rays</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TampaBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TampaBay</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TampaBayRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TampaBayRays</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TampaBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TampaBay</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TampaBayRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TampaBayRays</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/the" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#the</a>

Chuck DarwinIn February, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a> described the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chatham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chatham</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#House</a> group chats to the podcaster <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fridman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fridman</a> as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] <a href="https://c.im/tags/samizdat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#samizdat</a>” “The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.” They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mark</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cuban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cuban</a> and the Republican entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vivek</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>, which started in a chat.But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media. Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taylor</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lorenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lorenz</a>.They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/disappearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disappearing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/message" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#message</a> features, and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it. “People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Torenberg</a>, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt. As <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krishnan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Krishnan</a> was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Torenberg</a> independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast, after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups. “If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.” Their creations took off: “It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,” the Substack author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Noah</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Smith</a> wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday. “Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”<a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 26 March 1925: BURGLAR CAPTURED EXCITING CHRISTCHURCH INCIDENT A BOLD BID FOR LIBERTY … CHRISTCHURCH, 25th March. Masked by a silken scarf Whitefoord Jukes <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a>, aged 17 years, was arrested while crouching behind a counter in the premises of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., at 3.30 a.m. to-day. Curtis, though handcuffed, made a great bid for his liberty, but was recaptured after a splendid break, which traversed several blocks and ended at the back of the municipal chambers. It was found, eventually, that Curtis was arrested on his third job, as the information he gave to the police led to the recovery of a large quantity of stolen property, associating him with the operations at two other business premises. [Details of his capture, escape and recapture are recounted]. … Eventually Curtis was cornered after a long chase, and even then he unsuccessfully endeavoured to break away again. Curtis appeared in the Court this morning charged with theft, and was remanded for a week. The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> said that there were other charges to be preferred against him. <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250326.2.134" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250326.2.134</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crimes</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Christchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Christchurch</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

Chuck DarwinOver recent decades, a computer programmer and prolific internet commenter has risen from the obscurity of forums and pseudonymous blogs to the pages of this newspaper, as a friend to Vice President JD Vance and as a person who influences many of the people who influence President Trump.Posting as Mencius Moldbug, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> built a small but influential following among the more reactionary segments of the tech elite, providing them with an elaborate and conspiratorial vision of a nation under the heel of a tyrannical and suffocating liberalism, a broad group of individuals and institutions he calls “the Cathedral.” The path to national renewal, Yarvin argues, is to unravel American democracy in favor of rule by a benevolent C.E.O.-monarch drawn from a cadre of venture capitalists and corporate oligarchs.With views like these, it is not difficult to understand how Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons. He does little more than tell them what they want to hear. If he had been born a minor noble scrounging for influence in the court of Louis XIV, he would have been among the first to exclaim the absolute authority of the king, to tell anyone who would listen that yes, the state, it’s him.We do not have kings in the American Republic, but we do have capitalists. And in particular, we have a set of capitalists who appear to be as skeptical of liberal democracy as any monarch. They want to hear that they are the indispensable men. They want to hear that their parochial business concerns are as vital and important as the national interest. Aggrieved by the give-and-take of democratic life, they want to hear that they are under siege by the nefarious and illegitimate forces of a vast conspiracy. And hungry for the kind of status that money can’t buy, they want to hear that they deserve to rule. Yarvin affirms their fears, flatters their fantasies and gives them a language with which to express their great ambitions.Never mind that the actual substance of his ideas leaves much to be desired. Take his illuminating interview with The Times, in which he gives readers a crash course in his overall political vision. He makes a studied effort to appear as learned and erudite as possible. But linger just a little on his answers and you’ll see the extent to which they’re underproofed and overbaked.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/trump-vance-yarvin-monarchy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/trump-vance-yarvin-monarchy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Chuck DarwinHe’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump -- The obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration -- <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> is hardly a household name in US politics. But the “neoreactionary” thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration -- in particular over potential threats to US democracy.Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect JD Vance and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trump’s election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvin’s public proposals for taking autocratic power in America.Trump’s legal moves against critics in the media, Elon Musk’s promises to pare government spending to the bone, and the deployment of the Maga base against Republican lawmakers who have criticized controversial nominees like Pete Hegseth are among the measures that resemble elements of Yarvin’s strategy for displacing liberal democracy in the US.One of the venues in which Yarvin has articulated the strategy include a podcast hosted by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a>, a writer and academic whom Trump last week appointed to work in a senior role under secretary of state nominee Marco Rubio.Although Yarvin once described Vance as a “random normie politician I’ve barely even met” in a July Substack post, in October the Verge reported that “no one online has shaped Vance’s thinking more”. The growing parallels between the incoming administration’s actions – especially Vance’s views – and Yarvin’s suggestions raise questions about his influence.Robert Evans, an extremism researcher and the host of the podcast "Behind the Bastards", recorded a two-part series on Yarvin.“He didn’t fall out of a coconut tree. He emerged into a rightwing media space where they had been talking about the evils of liberal media and corrupt academic institutions for decades,” he said.“He has influenced a lot of people in the incoming administration and a lot of other influential people on the right. But a lot of the stuff he advocates is the same windmills Republicans have been tilting at for a while,” Evans continued.“What’s unique is his way of rebranding or repackaging old reactionary ideas in a way that appealed to libertarian-minded kids in the tech industry, and in eventually getting some of them to embrace a lot of far-right ideas,” he said.“That’s the novelty of Yarvin and that’s his real accomplishment.” -- Jason Wilson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Eureka! FaktenTony <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> verstand Deutsch. Er ließ sich einige Folgen der dt. Fassung von “Die 2” schicken und war angeblich begeistert. Er schlug vor, das dt. Synchronstudio solle die Drehbücher der weiteren Folgen schreiben.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Movie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Moore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Moore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TV</a><a href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_2_(Krimiserie)" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_2_(Krimiserie)</a>

Chuck DarwinIn addition to relationships with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> is also in close contact with the 💥bottom feeders on the far right. 💥For nearly two years, according to The Washington Post, Vance was in regular conversation by text message with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chuck</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Johnson</a>, a notorious Holocaust denier who has spent the better part of a decade promoting right-wing conspiracy theories.And as my Michelle Goldberg wrote this week, Vance is close enough to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jack</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Posobiec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Posobiec</a> — an alt-right lunatic who pushed the vile and absurd Pizzagate conspiracy theory and collaborated with online neo-Nazis to spread antisemitic hate — to blurb his latest book, a polemic devoted to the idea that liberals and leftists are <a href="https://c.im/tags/Untermenschen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Untermenschen</a> who must be stopped lest they destroy civilization. “As they are opposed to humanity itself,” Posobiec and his co-author, Joshua <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lisec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisec</a>, write, “they place themselves outside of the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman.”♦️These are the friends and influences that JD Vance brought with him to the United States Senate, ♦️and these will almost certainly be the same friends and influences he’ll bring to the White House if he is elected vice president. <a href="https://c.im/tags/most" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#most</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extreme</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/elements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elements</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/postliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postliberal</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/reactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reactionary</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/exhausted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exhausted</a>

Chuck DarwinThe single most troubling thing about Senator JD Vance — his bizarre understanding of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien notwithstanding — is his close relationship with some of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/most" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#most</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extreme</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/elements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elements</a> of the American right.When asked to explain his worldview, Vance has cited his former boss, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, the billionaire venture capitalist who has written passionately against democracy (“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”), and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a>, a software developer turned blogger and provocateur who believes the United States should transition to monarchy (“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia”). Yarvin has also written favorably of human bondage (slavery, he once wrote, “is a natural human relationship”) and wondered aloud if apartheid wasn’t better for Black South Africans.While Vance’s admirers see him as a uniquely intellectual presence in American politics — a thinker as much as a politician — his right-wing, <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> views are largely derivative of the views and preoccupations of Thiel, Yarvin and their community of “<a href="https://c.im/tags/postliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postliberal</a>” ideologues and <a href="https://c.im/tags/reactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reactionary</a> venture capitalists. Take Vance’s view that the United States is in a period of Romanesque decline. “We are in a late republican period,” Vance said on a podcast in 2021. ⚠️“If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”Compare this to 👉Thiel’s view that “liberalism” and “democracy” are “<a href="https://c.im/tags/exhausted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exhausted</a>,” and that to restore the nation “we have to ask some questions very far outside the Overton window.” ❓Is this a call for new tax cuts, or does it represent a fundamental hostility toward popular constitutional government in the United States?❓<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/opinion/jd-vance-right-wing-intellectual.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/opinion/jd-vance-right-wing-intellectual.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Chuck DarwinWhere J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas:In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a>, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.”Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to <a href="https://c.im/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genocide</a>.”He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, whom the Republican Party just nominated to be Donald <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s vice president. 🔥If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted <a href="https://c.im/tags/techno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techno</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> to the White House, and one can imagine—with horror —what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas.Trump’s first campaign was undoubtedly a watershed moment for authoritarianism in American politics, but some thinkers on the right had been laying the groundwork for years, hoping for someone to mainstream their ideas. Yarvin was one of them. Way back in 2012, in a speech on “How to Reboot the US Government,” he said, 💥“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their <a href="https://c.im/tags/dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictator</a> phobia.” He had also written favorably of <a href="https://c.im/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slavery</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#white</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nationalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalists</a> in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself).Both Thiel and Vance are friends of Yarvin. In "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power", reporter Max Chafkin describes Yarvin as the “house political philosopher” of the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a>,” a term for the people in Thiel’s orbit. In 2013, Thiel invested in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tl%C3%B6n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tlön</a>, a software startup co-founded by Yarvin. In 2016, Yarvin attended Thiel’s election night party in San Francisco where, according to Chafkin, champagne flowed once it became clear that Thiel’s investment in Donald Trump would pay off. Since entering politics, Vance has publicly praised —and parroted —Yarvin’s ideas. That was worrying enough when Vance was only a senator. Now that he could soon be a heartbeat away from the presidency, his close ties to Yarvin are more alarming than ever. Superficial analyses of why certain tech billionaires are aligning with Trump tend to fixate on issues like taxes and regulations, but that’s only part of the story. Tech plutocrats like Thiel and Elon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> already have money. Now they want power—as much as money can buy.

Chuck DarwinPart of why people have trouble describing this "New Right" is because it’s a bunch of people who believe that the system that organizes our society and government, which most of us think of as normal, is actually bizarre and insane. Which naturally makes them look bizarre and insane to people who think this system is normal. You’ll hear these people talk about our globalized consumerist society as “clown world.” You’ll often hear the worldview expressed by our media and intellectual class described as “the matrix” or the “Ministry of Truth,” as Thiel described it in his opening keynote speech to NatCon. It can be confusing to turn on something like the influential underground podcast "Good Ol Boyz" and hear a figure like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> talk to two autodidact Southern gamers about the makeup of the regime, if only because most people reading this probably don’t think of America as the kind of place that has a regime at all. But that’s because, as many people in this world would argue, we’ve been so effectively propagandized that we can’t see how the system of power around us really works.This is not a conspiracy theory like QAnon, which presupposes that there are systems of power at work that normal people don’t see. This is an idea that the people who work in our systems of power are so obtuse that they can’t even see that they’re part of a conspiracy.“The fundamental premise of liberalism,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> told me, “is that there is this inexorable march toward progress. I disagree with that premise.” He believes that this premise underpins a massive framework of power. “My job,” as he puts it, “is to wake people up from the Truman Show.” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cruz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rod</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kirn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldview</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hell</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatCon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielbucks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foundation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a>

Chuck DarwinI wrote a piece that came across as critical of him. It expressed my deep hopelessness about the future of America. I figured he’d want nothing more to do with me. But the morning it was published he sent me a short, heartfelt email. He said that he’d been a bit “pained” to read in the piece that my parents disliked him but said he’d like to talk more. “I don’t see you as a member of the elite because I see you as independent of their ideological strictures and incentives,” he wrote. “But maybe I’m just saying that because I like you.”“Despair,” he signed off, “serves the regime.” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cruz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rod</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kirn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldview</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hell</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatCon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielbucks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foundation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> sits somewhere in between these two tendencies —at 37, he’s a 🔸venture capitalist who is young enough to be exposed to the dissident online currents. But he’s also 🔸shaped by the most deeply traditionalist thinking of the American right. He is friends with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a>, whom he openly cites as a political influence, and with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a>, who was there when Vance was baptized into the Catholic Church in 2019. I’d been writing about <a href="https://c.im/tags/militias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#militias</a> and right-wing stirrings in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/rural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rural</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#West</a> for years, but I didn’t really understand how this alchemy worked until I first met him last July. I’d gone back to Ohio to see my uncle, who was dying of cancer. Vance and I both grew up around Cincinnati, immersed in a culture of white rural migrants who had come from coalfields and farm towns to look for work in the cities of the Midwest. We had met as a kind of experiment —I was going to be in town anyway, and because my uncle was sick, I was thinking a lot about the place and what it meant to me. On a whim, I asked an editor at a conservative magazine if I could write something from the perspective of a skeptical leftist. Vance suggested that we meet at a diner where my dad had often taken me as a kid. He was barely registering in the polls at the time.Vance believes that a 🔹well-educated and culturally liberal American elite has greatly benefited from globalization, the financialization of our economy, and the growing power of big tech. This has led an 🔹Ivy League intellectual and management class —a quasi-aristocracy he calls “the regime” —to adopt a set of economic and cultural interests that directly oppose those of people in places like Middletown, Ohio, where he grew up. In the Vancian view, this class has no stake in what people on the New Right often call the “real economy” —the farm and factory jobs that once sustained middle-class life in Middle America. This is a fundamental difference between New Right figures like Vance and the Reaganite right-wingers of their parents’ generation. To Vance—and he’s said this—culture war is class warfare.Vance recently told an interviewer, “I gotta be honest with you, 🔸I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine,” 🔸 a flick at the fact that he thinks the American-led global order is as much about enriching defense contractors and think-tank types as it is about defending America’s interests. “I do care about the fact that in my community right now the leading cause of death among 18- to 45-year-olds is Mexican fentanyl.” His criticisms of big tech as “enemies of Western civilization” often get lost in the run of Republican outrage over Trump being kicked off Twitter and Facebook, though they go much deeper than this. Vance believes that the regime has sold an illusive story that consumer gadgets and social media are constantly making our lives better, even as wages stagnate and technology feeds an epidemic of depression. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cruz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rod</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kirn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldview</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hell</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatCon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielbucks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foundation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a>

Chuck DarwinKirn didn’t want to put a label on this movement, describing it as a “fractious family of dissenters” when I called him at his home in Montana—“a somewhat new, loose coalition of people whose major concern is that we not end up in a top-down controlled state.” He told me he didn’t consider himself right wing and found some of the antidemocratic ideas he heard expressed in this sphere to be “personally chilling.” But he described it as a zone of experimentation and free expression of a kind that was now closed off in America’s liberal mainstream. “They seem to want a war,” he said. “The last thing I want is some kind of definitive ideological war which leaves out the heterodox, complicated, and almost naively open spirit of American politics.”And the ferment is starting to get noticed. “I think that’s a really good sign,” one of the hosts of the dissident-right podcast "The Fed-post" said recently, discussing how Tucker Carlson had just quoted a tweet from one of their guests. “This is a kind of burgeoning sect of thought,” he went on, “and it’s causing people who are in positions of larger influence and relative power to actually have to start looking into it.” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cruz</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rod</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kirn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldview</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hell</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a 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<a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a>

Chuck DarwinPeople often struggle with what to make of Thiel’s involvement in this ecosystem. Last year the journalist Max Chafkin published a biography of Thiel, titled "The Contrarian" in which he described <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> as the “house political philosopher” for a network often called the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielverse</a>. The book focuses heavily on Thiel’s political maneuverings, describing how he evolved from being a hyper-libertarian to someone who now makes common cause with nationalists and populists. And it explains how Thiel helped both <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cruz</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawley</a> on their paths to the Senate. The Contrarian ends with a dark picture of the billionaire trying to extend his political reach ever more overtly by funding and shepherding the campaigns of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a>. “Masters and Vance are different from Hawley and Cruz,” Chafkin writes; the former two are “extensions” of Thiel.This is only partly true. It would be just as accurate to say that Thiel has been influenced by the intellectual currents and political critiques of the "New Right" that he’s now helping to support. Many of these people are friendly with Thiel, or admire him, but are by no means beholden to him. And many of them hold views that would seem to make Thiel, a tech oligarch currently worth around $8 billion who recently resigned from the Meta—née Facebook—board of directors, their natural enemy.This New Right is heavily populated by people with graduate degrees, so there’s a lot of debate about who is in it and whether or not it even exists. 🔹At one end are the NatCons, post-liberals, and traditionalist figures like "Benedict Option" author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rod</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dreher</a>, who envision a 🔸conservatism reinvigorated 🔸 by an embrace of localist values, religious identity, and an active role for the state in promoting everything from marriage to environmental conservation. 🔹But there’s also a highly online set of Substack writers, podcasters, and anonymous Twitter posters —“our true intellectual elite,” as one podcaster describes them. This group encompasses everyone from rich crypto bros and tech executives to back-to-the-landers to disaffected members of the American intellectual class, like "Up in the Air" author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kirn</a>, whose fulminations against groupthink and techno-authoritarianism have made him an unlikely champion to the dissident right and heterodox fringe. 🔹But they share a the basic <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldview</a>: 🔸that individualist liberal ideology, increasingly bureaucratic governments, and big tech 🔸are all combining into a world that is at once tyrannical, chaotic, and devoid of the systems of value and morality that give human life richness and meaning —as Blake Masters recently put it, a “<a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hell</a>-world.” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatCon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielbucks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foundation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, the billionaire who helped fund <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatCon</a> and who had just given the conference’s opening address, has also funded things like the edgelordy and post-left–inflected "New People’s Cinema film festival", which ended its weeklong run of parties and screenings in Manhattan just a few days before NatCon began. He’s long been a big donor to Republican political candidates, but in recent years Thiel has grown increasingly involved in the politics of this younger and weirder world —becoming something like a nefarious godfather or a genial rich uncle, depending on your perspective. Podcasters and art-world figures now joke about their hope to get so-called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thielbucks</a>. His most significant recent outlays have been to two young Senate candidates who are deeply enmeshed in this scene and influenced by its intellectual currents: 🔹"Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, running for the Republican nomination in Ohio, 🔹and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Masters</a> in Arizona. Thiel has given more than $10 million to super PACs supporting the men’s candidacies, and both are personally close to him. Vance is a former employee of Thiel’s Mithril Capital, and Masters, until recently the COO of Thiel’s so-called “family office,” also ran the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foundation</a>, which has become increasingly intertwined with this <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Right</a> ecosystem. These three —Thiel, Vance, Masters —are all friends with 🔸<a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a>, a 48-year-old ex-programmer and blogger who has done more than anyone to articulate the world historical critique and popularize the key terms of the New Right. You’ll often hear people in this world —again under many layers of irony —call him things like "Lord Yarvin" or "Our Prophet."I was looking around the party for Vance, who hadn’t arrived yet, when Milius nudged me and pointed to a table off to our left. “Why is it that whenever I see Curtis, he’s surrounded by a big table of <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#incels</a>?” she asked with apparent fondness. I spotted Yarvin, a slight, bespectacled man with long dark hair, drinking a glass of wine with a crowd that included <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Josh</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hammer</a>, the national conservatism–minded young opinion editor of Newsweek, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michael</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a>, a Machiavelli scholar and former spokesman for Trump’s National Security Council —and a prominent public intellectualizer of the Trump movement. Other luminaries afoot for the conference included Dignity author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arnade</a>, who seemed slightly unsure about the whole NatCon thing, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sohrab</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ahmari</a>, the former opinion editor of the New York Post, now a cofounder and editor at the new magazine <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compact</a>, whose vision is, according to its mission statement, “shaped by our desire for a strong social-democratic state that defends community—local and national, familial and religious—against a <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#left</a> and a <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#right</a>.” It is a very of-the-moment project. Political reporters, at least the ones who have bothered to write about Yarvin, have often dismissed him as a <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kook</a> with a readership made up mostly of lonely internet weirdos, fascists, or both. But to ignore him is to underestimate how Yarvin’s ideas, or at least ideas in conversation with his, have become foundational to a whole political and cultural scene that goes much deeper than anything you’d learn from the panels and speeches at an event like NatCon. Or 🔸how those ideas are going to shape the future of the American right, 🔸 whether or not Vance and Masters win their Senate primaries. I introduced myself, and soon Milius and I were outside smoking as Yarvin and I chatted about whether he’d be willing to talk to me on the record.<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets</a>

Michael MecklerWhile I enjoy the occasional cross-reference/cross-appearance in the daily comics, it does seem to be turning into a regular occurrence, as witnessed by Thursday's 'Blondie' and Friday's 'Curtis'.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ComicStrips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComicStrips</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Blondie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blondie</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BeetleBailey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeetleBailey</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Garfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Garfield</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/JumpStart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JumpStart</a>

John AutryThe eponymously titled "Curtis" released in September 1970. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CurtisMayfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CurtisMayfield</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a>

Universal HubHalf of Boston's cattle herd in a single photo <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JamaicaPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamaicaPlain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cattle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AllandaleFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllandaleFarm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Willis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Willis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Moo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Moo</a> <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2023/half-bostons-cattle-herd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2023/half-bostons-cattle-herd</a>

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