Curtis Yarvin
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He was in the viciously racist apartheid regime. Basically, they had him on the terrorist list. So if you look atβ Let's get to the other two.
He was in the viciously racist apartheid regime. Basically, they had him on the terrorist list. So if you look atβ Let's get to the other two.
Because they're both terrorists and because they basically both violated the rules of war in the same way. And they both basically killed innocent people. We valorize terrorism all the time. This valorization. So Gandhi then is your model.
Because they're both terrorists and because they basically both violated the rules of war in the same way. And they both basically killed innocent people. We valorize terrorism all the time. This valorization. So Gandhi then is your model.
It's more complicated than that, but I could say things about either. But let's move on to one of your other examples. So I think the best way to basically grapple with that period directly. Which period are we talking about now? 1860s. Okay, yeah. Okay, let's talk about African Americans in the 1860s.
It's more complicated than that, but I could say things about either. But let's move on to one of your other examples. So I think the best way to basically grapple with that period directly. Which period are we talking about now? 1860s. Okay, yeah. Okay, let's talk about African Americans in the 1860s.
Okay, the thing that you can do that any Times reader can do, just go to your Google Bar and Google slave narratives. Just go and read random slave narratives and get their experience of the time. And so the thing is that basically the treatment ofβ
Okay, the thing that you can do that any Times reader can do, just go to your Google Bar and Google slave narratives. Just go and read random slave narratives and get their experience of the time. And so the thing is that basically the treatment ofβ
of the freed slaves after the war is like extremely, there was a recent historian who published a thing, and I think this is, I would dispute this, this number is too high, but his estimate was that something like a quarter of all the freedmen basically die in between like 1865 and 1870.
of the freed slaves after the war is like extremely, there was a recent historian who published a thing, and I think this is, I would dispute this, this number is too high, but his estimate was that something like a quarter of all the freedmen basically die in between like 1865 and 1870.
Their children were no longer sold out from under them. When I said anyone, okay, first of all, when I said anyone, I was talking about a population group rather than individuals.
Their children were no longer sold out from under them. When I said anyone, okay, first of all, when I said anyone, I was talking about a population group rather than individuals.
The era of 1865 to 1875 was absolutely, and the war itself wasn't good either. But if you look at the living conditions for an African American in the South, they are absolutely at their nadir between 1865 and 1875. They are very, very bad because basically this economic system has been disrupted.
The era of 1865 to 1875 was absolutely, and the war itself wasn't good either. But if you look at the living conditions for an African American in the South, they are absolutely at their nadir between 1865 and 1875. They are very, very bad because basically this economic system has been disrupted.
Brazil abolished slavery in the 1880s without a civil war. And so the thing is, when you look at basically, you know, the cost of the war or the meaning of the war, you're basically just like, it just visited this huge amount of destruction. On all sorts of people, black and white. I'm just like, all of these evils and all of these goods existed in people at this time.
Brazil abolished slavery in the 1880s without a civil war. And so the thing is, when you look at basically, you know, the cost of the war or the meaning of the war, you're basically just like, it just visited this huge amount of destruction. On all sorts of people, black and white. I'm just like, all of these evils and all of these goods existed in people at this time.
And what I'm fighting against in both of those quotes, also in the way, you know, the people respond, you know, to Breivik. I'm like, basically, you're responding in this kind of cartoonish way. to something that terrorism, which is, you know, what is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? You know, that's a really important question in 20th century history.
And what I'm fighting against in both of those quotes, also in the way, you know, the people respond, you know, to Breivik. I'm like, basically, you're responding in this kind of cartoonish way. to something that terrorism, which is, you know, what is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? You know, that's a really important question in 20th century history.
To say that I'm going to have a strong opinion about this stuff without having an answer to that question, I think is really difficult and wrong.
To say that I'm going to have a strong opinion about this stuff without having an answer to that question, I think is really difficult and wrong.