Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by graemep 19 days ago
> Also this person apparently went from being part of Occupy Wall Street to being "inspired by the political views of Curtis Yarvin"

A lot of the far right are anti-globalisation as Occupy Wall Street was, both are a rejection of consensus politics, and people who tend to go to extremes are more likely to go to a different extreme than become moderate.

There is also a type of brilliant person (and Justine is brilliant) who tends to go off the rails in some way. Look at the number of weird or nasty creative artists and authors.

> "travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation."

I did not read that far and thought the post arrogant and entitled! That is a Musk like level of being out of touch with reality. Again, something people who indulge a sense of their own brilliance are prone to.

1 comments

I suspect that on some level, many of the people slating Justine feel threatened by his genius, and that is part of the reason why they keep bringing up the same tired old laundry list of perceived sins in an attempt to do so.
Did you make this account just to misgender her a couple times? You haven't posted before or since but are very careful to use the masculine pronoun to describe someone that uses the feminine pronoun in the only posts you've made.