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"[T]axation is not theft. Taxation is rent."
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Curtis YarvinA common error […] is to identify tyranny and monarchy, which in fact — Curtis Yarvin
"A common error […] is to identify tyranny and monarchy, which in fact are quite unrelated political forms—all they share is the coincidence of personal rule. We may not all know it, but wed almost all rather live under the "autocratic" and "absolutist" tsars than under Stalin."
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Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin
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Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), which originated in the late 2000s.
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"[T]he state is simply a real-estate business on a very large scale."
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"In the twenty-first century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why."
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"The problem today is that the people who think they are the most daring are in fact the most obsequious."
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"For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists […] are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful."
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"Limited government is a recipe for corrupting the judiciary."
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