So much for "something that actually works"
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Well, he can’t say that outright or he’d be deemed dangerous. Peace is cover and saying that your enemies would be spared after you establish your rule is a good move to pacify some of them regardless of your actual actions after seizing the rule.
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Exactly, much harder to pull off Caesar move if the oligarchs think you are Augustus
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Well he's a member of a special group that any Caeser would recognize as an enemy. Consciously or unconsciously he's protecting himself preemptively.
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Only half I thought
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Indeed. People who hate you are unlikely to stop hating you and, in politics, will work to destroy you. So obvious that Hollywood repeatedly uses the device of your one surviving enemy or his son always coming back and ruining your plans. Conan, Godfather II, Star Wars...
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The most charitable interpretation is that hes trying not to say things that will get him detained by the FBI. If he says "proscriptions work, heres my book Gray Mirror about how we should do proscriptions on the Libs" hes going to get some knocks on the door
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Of course this functionally means that because he has an public identity he is basically precluded from ever saying anything of substance, thus he strings people along via grift. You still get useful insight out of the man but he cant say too much of consequence.
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I think there's a bit of a wrong focus here. Burning the letters is an act of blanket amnesty. None of the writers were tested as to their current dispositions. Mercy is the province of the victor, but is only properly served to those willing to unburden prior animosities.
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Yarvin doesn’t say proscription is bad because he’s morally opposed to executing political enemies in any historical circumstance. It fits in with his theory that modern people and their political systems are low-energy and thus mass executions are not necessary.
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The point he’s making in this interview is that the “chest of letters” was a symbol of the old vicious cycle of optimates against populares with their respective enemy lists. Caesar’s burning of the letters is him casting aside the old partisan distinction to forge a new order.
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