Isn't Scott Aaronson supposed to be smart? How could be possibly sincerely believe Moldbug's worldview put Trump into office?
to be fair, the intellectual currents are related. Moldbug and Trump both reject some of the same core tenets of progressivism
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They're not completely unrelated, so from a distance the sophistry works. That's why he used it.
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Moldbug annihilates exactly this sophistry downthread. "Only bad communism murders, but anything vaguely right-wing is Nazi."
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That and the ideal of having a CEO lead government.
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In reality Trump is painfully demotist. He's patriotic to mythological America.
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Of course. But a leftist who barely knows this stuff doesn't see that distinction.
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Their thinking: "This Yarvin guy thinks we should have a national CEO/dictator. Trump is an actual CEO turned President".
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Fair enough.
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