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Best summary of the anti-democratic position on be seen. Well done!

Also goes to show the farce that the “marketplace of ideas” is. This is the definition of a kill shot and yet millions of “people” would cope and seethe and write walls of text trying to disprove it. It’s all so tiresome…

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thanks man. and I agree, you have to wade through so much tedium when listening to staunch democracy advocates; it mostly amounts to pleasant-sounding platitudes and denial of game theory/incentives.

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Amazing work, thank you for this. I felt like this was an incredible synthesis of many complex ideas, some of which I’ve been diving into lately:

- Ray Dalio’s Changing World Order

- Nietzsche’s philosophy of strong and weak men

- Haidt’s moral foundations

- iterated game theory

Curious to hear if you know of any good counter-arguments or pieces of this theory where it gets flimsy.

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thank you very much. I'm a big fan of Haidt; in fact his moral foundations work is instrumental to an upcoming series I'll be releasing on here soon (already on twitter). I've never read any of the others you cited.

if you come across any good refutations of this essay, or any work I put out, I'm always keen to take a look at it. whether it agrees with me or disagrees. I'm not aware of anything that does.

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once you start to distill democracies to what they actually are — machines to service the lowest common denominator, you realize a high agency (libertarian) society is a false hope. this is why monarchies are cool, to some extent. you only need 1 dude to understand what “works,” and not in the sense of expanding your constituency (there is none!)

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precisely

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Oct 25Liked by dmitry

This is more or less what I’d never vote for Democrats ever again, even though muh voooote is a meme. This country has never had a long term rightward shift. Today’s Democrats are tomorrow’s Republicans. So I might as well go the speed limit for as long as I can.

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yeah agree. the most pragmatic choice is to go the speed limit, and just don't be deluded about where you're heading.

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Argentina shows how bad it has to get before 'cutting all this government bloat will get you more' finally becomes the 'gimme' solution.

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Oct 23Liked by dmitry

Good read my fellow democracy disrespectoooorrrrrr

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thanks king

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One of your best! The founders of America understood the problem well, too.

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thank you kindly my good man

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Great essay. Rarely see a crucial idea so clearly put and so persuasive. Painful to contemplate though.

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I really appreciate that. And I agree, these realizations were no fun to come to terms with.

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Libertarians are a fringe movement in the United States. The Libertarian Party garners less than 1% of the vote. Most Libertarians are ‘productive’ anything. Most are elderly, retired, or college students.

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Yes, as a party they are irrelevant. My reference to libertarians are regarding morality and policy stances that fundamentally orient around the liberty/oppression plane, which many conservatives do emphasize.

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