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Curtis Yarvin
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Jul 7 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The truth is that the people simply aren’t strong enough to be actually in control of power. So putting them theoretically in control of power is a bad idea.

Like a 7-year-old king. In practice the real king is whichever uncle has him. He is likely to be abused in this scrap The concrete reality of democracy is the hard power of the urban mob, which for centuries held a literal Schmittian exception.

Charles I noted that the mistake behind the Revolution was holding Parliament in London, where the mob could intimidate it

The mob is completely dead
Jul 4 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The US was created by a leftist revolution in the 1770s, then recreated by a rightist counterrevolution in the 1780s.

The new 1790s state was run as a national monarchy by the revolution’s general and his top aide, working as cofounders.

Basically no one knows these basic facts Tell me why you know nothing about the political history of the Articles of Confederation period: America’s first republic.

That’s the republic founded on July 4. Dog: do you even know the names of its political leaders?

Like the first President, John Hanson
Jul 2 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
All around the world, the shitty 20th century regime is held together by shitty 20th-century state media built on shitty 20th-century broadcast technology.

Only one thing is stopping anyone with a few billion dollars from competing with it, and blowing up the world’s politics Libertarianism. The people who would want to do this are all libertarians.

They don’t want power. They don’t believe in power. And they don’t know how to do anything that doesn’t turn a profit.

And this wouldn’t. It’s what USAID would do. But USAID didn’t turn a profit
Apr 17 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
The state adjusts the rules of production so that labor demand fits labor supply in both quantity (number of jobs) and quality (work fits the worker).

Easiest way: restrict industrial production of artisanal needs—clothes, furniture, etc. Lots of people want to be artisans We will not, as recent econ papers have postulated, be giving each other massages and blowjobs all day.

We will be cooking delicious meals, making beautiful clothes, and crafting elegant furniture.

This only works if industrial goyslop in all these domains is punished by DEATH
Jan 16 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Straight-up extortion. Terribly surprised that no one believes in capitalism anymore? Been near a school lately?

For a while there we actually thought companies and rich people had rights. Good run while it lasted In a way, Luigi did this. He let the elite show itself that it had ascended past law and morality for this always-soft target of power, moving into pure friend-enemy mode where no “empathy” exists.

The republic was ready to start eating its own liver
Jan 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Tanner weirdly shifts from an initial social definition of the WASPs, to a racial definition. Everything until #24 or so is correct—then this definition lets him conclude that the Eastern Establishment lost power.

Actually the New Deal was the apotheosis of the Establishment Now it’s true that the ideas of these social networks evolved over time. And some people will always resist “change.”

But there was never a serious challenge to Eastern Establishment institutions in the 20th century. They just got stronger and stronger. And conquered the world
Jan 4 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Turns out imperialism is the new isolationism But I’m serious about this. Not just simping for Trump.

The state is a firm. Foreign policy is a business strategy. The strategic question: is this a profit center, a neutral expense, or a cost center?

These correspond to imperialism, isolationism, and aidocracy or “soft power”
Jan 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
As AJP Taylor said, if Hitler had died in 1939, he would have been remembered as one of Germany’s greatest leaders.

Even at war, there were things H got right that most of his generals got wrong. Also the reverse ofc.

Surprising how many Weimar enjoyers you see in 2025 Most of Hitler’s mistakes, including his anti-Semitism, came from his provincial and poorly educated background. He just did not understand how the world outside Central Europe worked.

Easy to see why a person like this could think the US and UK were run by the Jews
Jan 1 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
It’s neither design nor accident.

Libs do think they’re doing the right thing. They have a variety of ideas, some naive, some Machiavellian or even Nietzschean, that tell them so.

But these ideas evolved not to be reasonable, but just to feel powerful. And often be powerful Libertarian memes cannot find a level playing field in the marketplace of ideas—not when the outcome of the market is in any way connected to power.

Before Wikipedia mattered, it was generally libertarian. Once it mattered, it became hard leftist. This was not a coincidence
Dec 3, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They call the replacement a “conspiracy theory” because in their own narcissistic narrative they are genuinely motivated by helping the migrants.

They can never see that they are only emotionally attracted to causes that make them collectively more powerful This addictive desire is so powerful that it easily overwhelms any instinct for collective self-benefit or even self-preservation.

In the ruling class created by a century of this unbridled libido dominandi, any politics meant to benefit “self” or “us” is a social faux pas
Oct 14, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Not going to be contributing more text to this platform. I’ll use it to post links, promos, etc In almost all situations in which you are offered the choice between money and power, you should choose money.

This is only because in most cases the power is illusory, and in most of the rest it is just plain evil. But—
Sep 28, 2025 • 37 tweets • 7 min read
Using nonlethal munitions to brawl with these people is EXACTLY what they want. It will make their numbers grow week after week. It will make their dicks, for those possessing that organ, hard as tire irons.

Here’s why they’re not being rounded up & processed: cowardice. Thread If you arrest and don’t prosecute, that’s another lose.

They emerge grinning. They’re martyrs, like Jesus, but if Pilate had handed down a really stiff sentence like 30 days of probation and a 1000 shekel fine (instantly paid by some rich disciple)
Sep 25, 2025 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
It is so difficult to process the difference in orders of magnitude between the power of the left and the “power” of the right, even in office, that the pinpricks of the right are easy to paint as gigantic and unprecedented.

That’s why big things are easier than small things You simply can’t compare “Trump made a comment about a comedian who put a straight-faced lie about murder on the air” to “the Biden administration ordered the systemic censorship of social media.”

If we ramped our power up 100x, anyone could see that theirs was still 10x greater
Sep 14, 2025 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Hey man I love Dilbert and hate cancer.

But nothing is as nauseating as the bloviating impotence of the normiecon.

Grok should have a “translate to English” button on this post. It would read:

“Surely someone is going to do something” Oh, we’re doing something. We’re getting a bunch of dickwads fired.

That’s great, especially when it lets us point out “cancel culture” was treating any evidence of dissent as if it was a sociopathic celebration of murder.

But it’s still a fundamentally rhetorical act
Sep 11, 2025 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Everyone should read Bryan Burroughs’ Days of Rage and remind themselves that 50 years ago, in America, hippies were setting off like a bomb a day.

This didn’t end because the hippies lost. It didn’t end because they mellowed out. It ended because they won Image Our universities became hippie universities. Our kindergartens became hippie kindergartens. Our government became a hippie government and even learned to wage hippie war. Which involves a lot of JAG hippie commissars and doesn’t work very well.

Woke is just John Lennon hippieism
Sep 11, 2025 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
The Institute for Effective Democracy (IED) is a new nonprofit which builds open-source software that helps voters take back control of their governments.

This app, “Ulysses,” (after President Grant) could in theory be used anywhere in the world. Its first use case is the US How can we make democracy more effective?

Democracy meqns the voters control the government. The more power the voters have, the more democratic the country.

But the voters don’t have infinite energy. The more efficiently we use their energy, the more effective our democracy
Sep 10, 2025 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Chris, the anon right isn’t patrolled. It’s curated.

A curated space is based on reputation, formal or informal. Noise in the space is just annoying. Bad ideas only matter if they infect good people.

A patrolled space is—what you’re used to. You can nutpick all day long and idc What you are really asking the anon right to do is “read the room,” certainly always a professional necessity in any patrolled space. The admin is a patrolled space, and it has to be.

But as they say: you can read the room, or you can lead the room
Sep 7, 2025 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Notice the “othering” of “Democrat Party”—an exonym. Democrats say “Democratic.” Always.

Anthropologically, exonyms are a normal aspect of martial hostility. What puzzled me when I started noticing this 20 years ago was an anomalous absence of hostility—given these circumstances Carlyle called it the “Universal Sluggard-and-Scoundrel Protection Association.”

This was in 1850. Odds are, if you’ve had a disease for 175 years, it’s a pretty serious freaking disease.

I used to be firmly against using martial rhetoric and it’s not really to my taste. But
Sep 6, 2025 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
All the pathologies of hardcore normie conservatism shine in this exchange.

One: delusional optimism. This chart shows the AfD *losing* in Saxony-Anhalt, a province of East Germany, 61 to 39.

The whole point of the AfD is that all the other parties are one party! Even in their stronghold, for Americans idk Georgia, these Neanderthal Ossies cannot get it up to crack 40%.

Even with what is being done to them. The “rape of Europe.” A *statutory* rape, I’d say

But still: incomplete combustion. Near total failure to activate the population
Sep 3, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Indeed the paper shows “how easily transmissible hepatitis B can be”: not easily at all!

That you’re defending this, as though any reasonable person would expect your link to refute, not support, your argument, is depressing. I actually expected you to correct and apologize Image And it really shows the shitty, shitty state of ethical praxis in science today, because you’re obviously on the right side of the bell curve when it comes to genuine scholarship.

I dropped out of my PhD program 30 years ago when I realized people thought stuff like this was ok
Aug 9, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Progressivism is a decentralized religion.

Our definition of “religion” points toward centralized/Catholic forms, away from decentralized/Protestant forms. And toward the supernatural.

Remove both magic and authority, and you’ve dodged the immune system. Unitarianism = cancer Neutralizing the political immune system, by eliminating both magical entities/rituals and religious authorities/doctrines, lets the cell line flourish on a third energy source: secular power

Harvard has been Unitarian for 200 years Image