Seems like a weird moment, historically. The media environment is one of near-total hysteria, yet the physical/political environment is one of unrelenting progressive triumph, just victory after victory.
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Replying to @punch_sideiron
It's guilty conscience. They know the only way this stops is if it's stopped entirely and *all* of it reversed. They've come to accept the slippery slope and they're hysterical that their mid-slope preference has been demonstrated impossible.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @punch_sideiron
this presumes a self-awareness and ability to apprehend reality that these people completely lack
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They have the ability. They work really hard to suppress it.
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It makes sense if you buy Yarvin's explanation that they're all deathly afraid of the Cossacks, and even at the height of their power they can hear the hooves of the pogrom. It's delusional, but people believe a lot of delusional things.
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Yarvin is 100% wrong about them in this respect and it's due to his personal issues. Early on in his writings on UR he said that his grandparents were Stalinists and that he wants to believe that they were good people so didn't believe in the stories about the atrocities But...
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The reality is that Stalinists are Stalinists *because* they believe the stories about the atrocities and want to inflict them. This results in a massive blind spot for seeing malice motivated purely by malice on the part of the ruling class - rather than in self defense.
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