It's been difficult since ~2020 to truly read pieces that are heterodox. Everyone who was painting outside the lines was effectively erased from the polite society of the online squares.
Yarvis doesn't even touch many of the existing third rails today.
And Trump managed to create an entire replacement Twitter for him to run.
Moderation from various platforms is not the same as silencing people. It is vastly easier for fascists to share their evil today than ever before in history.
.. which are actions by private institutions, not affronts to free speech. And, might I remind everyone, where because of legitimate calls to violence which did actually result in a real insurrection, for real.
I mean, it's not like these were just empty words. People did actually die. Donald Trump did, and still does, repeat a lot of lies with the intention of sowing chaos and violence.
... what is your point with these anecdotes? Neither of those things made it less possible to find out what Donald Trump or a bunch of groypers think about anything.
Yes. It's quite bad, but even if you're a die-hard left liberal, or libertarian or whatever, Yarvin's ideas are a great exercise. He points out all sorts of failure modes in Democratic society that don't seem to get talked about by other political theorists. For example, the way in which power is so widely distributed means that anyone who manages to come to a powerful position is strongly incentivized to spend all their efforts simply maintaining their power lest they quickly get removed and replaced by someone more power hungry. This just seems like a feature of a representative democracy and one, that in order avoid, we would need to think very hard about.
>For example, the way in which power is so widely distributed means that anyone who manages to come to a powerful position is strongly incentivized to spend all their efforts simply maintaining their power lest they quickly get removed and replaced by someone more power hungry.
I don't see what's wrong with that in a democracy. "Maintaining their power" means passing bills for their constituents and campaigning for the next election. If they keep getting elected, the people clearly want it
Yarvis doesn't even touch many of the existing third rails today.