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This is going to be painful to read not because I disagree with his basic message but because he's taking the position of a normie conservative in criticizing leftoids for being anti-free speech, mapping morality onto the world, being vigilant, having in-group preferences, suppressing opposition, and every other strong and based tactic.
Maybe he's further right than this but I can only judge what's on the page.
— Jul 29, 2022 09:29AM
Maybe he's further right than this but I can only judge what's on the page.
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Jul 30, 2022 09:18AM
These types of conservatives fail to grasp that the current state of the world is in large part due to the thought of Voltaire, Locke and Rousseau, not in spite of it. They want to return to a fixed point in the degradation of society where it suits their current state of mind or political tastes, as if such a historical moment did not give way to the succeeding one. It's the same with conservatives who see Karl Marx as a harbinger of the eschaton, and not the heir of a tradition they otherwise praise.
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Precisely. Vox Day is not one such conservative though, read his book Cuckservative. I don't know why he's talking like a normie retard in this book, maybe to appeal to normies as well.
I'm a Friend of J. Phillip Johnson. I read this book five years ago. I actually have a review on Goodreads for it..., which I just reread and is definitely something I would have written 5 years ago and not necessarily now...Anyways, two things, (1) I actually would say Vox Day is the type of conservative who abandons more obvious classical liberal views in favor of more "based" tactics. The positions he takes in this book mirror that reality. (2) Based on my memory and my review, the book is basically Vox Day writing war stories from various battles against SJWs from GamerGate to the Hugo Awards to specific attacks against individuals like Brendan Eich and Timothy Hunt. He also spends some time giving practical advice if you find yourself the victim of SJWs. If that is the type of stuff you like, then you will like this book. If not, welp... I guess have fun.
