North Korea is demotic. The US is demotic. North Korea murders large numbers of people. The US does not. Scott Alexander argues, therefore, that the word demotic is not meaningful, in that it lumps unlike things together. The North Korean regime is based on lies, since it claims its right to rule comes from the will of the people. Therefore, the North Korean regime needs an elaborate apparatus of thought …
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Preparing for Civil War Two
Many reactionaries compare today’s America to the latter days of the Roman Republic, reflect on the excellence of the early Roman empire, and hope for a military coup that ends the corrupt and decadent American republic, replacing it with disciplined imperium. The reigns of the five good Roman emperors illustrate that the reign of stationary bandit, an absolute dictator secure in his power, fearing neither votes nor coups nor riot …