I’m trying to pinpoint this phenomenon where incompetent radicals end up resembling each other despite carrying diametrically opposing banners — socialists & anarchists, for example
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Highly competent radicals end up not looking like radicals at all. “He’s a good kid, but he has some very funny ideas.” Too often people who make bets on a radical worldview & win big end up getting reduced to “smart, eccentric” while “savvy” gets pinned on smooth talkers
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Sometimes I imagine the thinkers I follow as cult leaders, flowy garb & all. I think about the tenets of my cults, the extant priesthood & the heathens, why people join, what they want & whether they tend to get it. This is a surprisingly useful exercise for noticing bullshit
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Have you tried applying that thinking to Elon Musk? It's a central point in the thesis of Tesla short sellers. Musk has acquired a unique cult following on the right because he is an Ayn Rand character and on the left because he's "saving the planet". He uses his status to...
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Get subsidies, defraud local governments and investors, sell subpar goods to cult followers, bully suppliers and whistleblowers etc.
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When's that article of yours coming out?
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Cough mike cernovich cough.
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Some of us need thought leaders to provide flashy slam-dunks for our undercooked party intellectualism. I would have no friends if I didn’t constantly regurgitate what the pros say. I even try to work it into conversations about sportsball.
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