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Interesting about Star Wars. I remember seeing this years ago, and recalled that broadly the global north preferred the Empire. Sure enough:

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/chart-of-the-week/59891/russians-fighting-for-the-empire-according-to-player-choice-in-star-wars-commander/

Russians have a stronger preference for the Empire than Americans, but Americans still prefer the empire on balance. Interestingly, Canadians have a slightly higher preference than Americans. Holdover from United Empire Loyalist origins?

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Apr 11, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

A heaping helping of Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug’s wisdom for expanded context ↓↓

🗨 Aristotle [in his Politics] saw three forms of government: rule of one, rule of the few, rule of the many. He called them monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. Our Reality Department calls them: dictatorship, democracy, and populism.

🗨 one of the worst aspects of democracy is the fact that it rarely exists. Because democracy is the rule of the many, and the rule of the many is inherently unstable, democracies rarely last long.

🗨 Power is like computer code, binary. It is either on or off; final and absolute, or merely a glorified form of servitude.

And the final bespoke byte as if specifically tailored to Rolo’s size ↓↓ 😉

🗨 You really shouldn’t expect the material rewards of success to come along with the spiritual rewards of telling the truth.

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Disagree all you want, but the results speak for themselves. Trump accomplished nothing for the people who voted for him. In fact, he made things substantively worse by galvanizing his voters enemies.

I don't care about Trump's 'virtues'.

I care about results.

And Trump's results were all adverse for his voters.

He's a cult leader now, not a political figure.

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Ever notice that they always show Darth Vader's speeches on TV, but they never tell you what he's saying?

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Rolo expounding upon a topic of his choice in several different layers of complexity: to a child, ... , and finally a fella prophet. Should be a fun project, for both the esteemed author and his grateful audience in equal measure 🙂

(h/t wired.com/video/series/5-levels)

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Have you read "Mussolini - A New Life," by Nicholas Farrell. Worth a look.

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Hard to believe muslims are giving the russkiys trouble... and that the authorities protect those mohammedan rascals. Sounds kind of familiar, who would think that jewish warrior cultists would behave like this?

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Interesting. The OT had professional prophets, some were good at their profession others weren't. Some got mad when their prophecy was circumvented, Jonas, did not expect Ninevah to repent, when it did it damaged his cred. It was left to others to clean that story up.

2023 is tough for prophets, or even the current writers. It's great to be succinct but unique content is still everything. It's not as if without them special classes of human thought would be without expression.

Now, the Holy Fools, they had guts. They were total prophets and saw the entire thing, the entire world, its stupid societies and everybody in them as mockable . The last person they took seriously was themselves. They knew they were part of the joke too.

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"... today’s radicals pave the wave for tomorrow’s populists."

... pave the way ... . I know you know, it's just what I do.

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Rolo, have you read this piece on 'aristocracy' by SouthFront's infamous Eric Zuesse? https://southfront.org/the-aristocracy-how-and-why-it-controls-u-s-and-allied-countries/

Cannot say I disagree with him, although he completely ignores the racial angle. Also, he should take what he admits in the last paragraph about the rich and the Democratic Party to its full logical conclusions, which would mostly invalidate the points he made on the political level. On the sociological level, surprisingly, I think his observations stand.

Given it has been published, this is probably endorsed by SouthFront. As per Wikipedia SouthFront might be a FSB operation ---> this might help explaining why during your misadventure, your FSB interrogator suggested the Democratic Party as a possible friend of Russia in the US...

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The desire to vote trump was not simple peasant stupidity, there were a variety of reasons. They knew the demonrats hate heritage americans and have a satanic agenda... if not him who... the idea of president pudding brain and kalergi haaretz was far from appealing. Jimmy Dore summed it up in a funny way: ''There are still people who voted for Joe Biden who think they are good human beings''. Interesting how lil donnie, Biden and Kamala all have family marriages to the ethnic globalists...

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Every country has "circus barker politicians" who know how to manipulate the crowd. Every election cycle you can hear them screeching:

"step right up and play the game." The current game is the Eurasian alliance versus the West. It's much more Orwellian than Lucas. 😁

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It rarely ends well for prophets...

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Actually, once you realize this article is an exposition from one peasant to his fellows, everything becomes much less clear.

You could define populism as what happens when peasants get radical ideas, in the sense of any position the elites find threatening. For instance, the Stop the Steal Rally was based on the "radical" idea that the election had been stolen, and if you don't think that it's radical, reply MSM interviews of federal prosecutors. More generally, what do you think this "misinformattion" and "disinformation" are that forms the grist for the elite fact-checkers mills.

I don't think this evil schtick is a particularly helpful direction, either. Programs based on evil can be corrupted as easily (perhaps more so) than the rest, and so can be derailed from their intended path just as easily as any other.

In fact, programs based on "force" or any inspirational ideology tend to develop a momentum that can easily be captured and diverted. I believe this was essentially Gaetano Mosca's point, that only people who spend all their time doing politics and engaging in political corruption will be able to hold the reins of power.

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Stupid human tricks

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You are, by the way, wrong about this: "Take Trump, for example. The orange man did literally nothing for his supporters." He would have no supporters were it true.

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