On capital, ok, no problem. I have written against both freedom and the pursuit of happiness in the past, as well. At this point I can’t really tell what you mean by leftism. It feels to me that you call yourself a leftist while your actual ideas have totally diverged from it
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @schakalsynthetc
i think he assumes you're a libertarian
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @schakalsynthetc
I think he thinks nrx is just rebranded libertarianism... and a lot of nrx is former libertarian so I can see why one would make that mistake
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @schakalsynthetc
NRx is libertarianism that bites the bullet and recognizes that all of their arguments aren't essentially about liberty at all, they're about security - so in a sense it's a very, very pure libertarianism, but that is what allows it to stop being libertarianism
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that's why we don't care very much about free markets or free labor flows or weed
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I think I make a point of saying "classical liberal" instead of "libertarian" in recognition of that. if anything NRx is more like classical liberalism for people who *have* noticed libertarianism is kind of dumb.
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and yeah a lot of arguments aren't about monomaniacal commitment to some abstract "liberty" at all but about securing the political conditions in which some cultural element valuable in itself can exist. obviously "meritocracy" is about *merit*
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NRx absolutely rejects "meritocracy" - which was a lie to begin with If you're looking for merit it's vitally important to look at a man's ancestors in combination with his "merit" because ancestry is predictive
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but "ancestry is predictive" is still a long way from "ancestry *intrinsically* matters". you're *not* saying the legitimate heir to the throne is the legitimate heir and if he happens to be a complete incompetent and all-around-embarrassment, well, tough shit, he's the king.
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Ancestry matters because it's predictive Ancestry matters because people instinctively believe and understand that it matters Ancestry matters because a single bad king is harmless compared to the unbounded power struggle that is a government without heredity
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I have no idea why it matters if ancestry is intrinsically meaningful or if it's practically meaningful - those are just coordination points for men who will defend the practice Men who live under a system where ancestry matters will have a belief that it matters intrinsically
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