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by bigyabai 300 days ago
He's like a neoconservative Žižek. His party uses him to confuse and anger opponents, as a method to deflect criticism away from matters concerning policy or influence.

His original bibliography is largely ignored in polsci circles, found most often next to a print copy of Protocols of the Elders or somesuch conspiracy.

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Perhaps, but Zizek is at least funny and so on and so on.
There's nothing neoconservative about his ideology. He's some sort of monarchist paleoconservative.
There's nothing liberal about Slavoj, for most eastern Europeans. Nevertheless, European conservatives treat him like some sort of intelligentsia final boss when in reality he's just a kinda pissed-off dad with a Marxism fetish. I think Yarvin has become a similarly pointless flashpoint discussion topic, a sort of liberal boogeyman to wheel out when people demand more democracy or social benefits.

I don't really take issue with people who write this sort of literature, but I also don't take it very seriously myself.