Who on Earth Is Curtis Yarvin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0vb92zoVyI

 

Extremist blogger to debate Harvard professor at unsanctioned campus event

Yarvin is beginning to represent, along with his allies in the rightwing corners of the "Silicon Reich", the growing calls to destroy American democracy and replace it with a new feudalism; something Vance, the second most powerful person in the US government, seems at the very least to be fascinated with...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/curtis-yarvin-harvard

 

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration

 As JD Vance put it in a 2021 podcast interview with far-right influencer Jack Murphy: "There's this guy Curtis Yarvin who's written about some of these things. One has to basically accept that the whole thing is going to fall in on itself." 

Vance added: "The task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved and then when the inevitable collapse comes you build back the country in a way that's actually better."… 

"no one online has shaped Vance's thinking more". The growing parallels between the incoming administration's actions – especially Vance's views – and Yarvin's suggestions raise questions about his influence… 

In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the "person who's spent the most time gaming out how, exactly, the US government could be toppled and replaced"… 

"He didn't fall out of a coconut tree. He emerged into a rightwing media space where they had been talking about the evils of liberal media and corrupt academic institutions for decades," he said. 

"He has influenced a lot of people in the incoming administration and a lot of other influential people on the right. But a lot of the stuff he advocates is the same windmills Republicans have been tilting at for a while," Evans continued. 

"What's unique is his way of rebranding or repackaging old reactionary ideas in a way that appealed to libertarian-minded kids in the tech industry, and in eventually getting some of them to embrace a lot of far-right ideas," he said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

Who is Curtis Yarvin, the monarchist, anti-democracy blogger? - Vox

…Yarvin argues that a creative and visionary leader — a "startup guy," like, he says, Napoleon or Lenin was — should seize absolute power, dismantle the old regime, and build something new in its place…

 ... Besides Vance and Masters (whose campaigns declined to comment for this story), Yarvin has had a decade-long association with billionaire Peter Thiel, who is similarly disillusioned with democracy and American government. 

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible," Thiel wrote in 2009, and earlier this year, he declared that Republican members of Congress who voted for Trump's impeachment after the January 6 attacks were "traitorous." 

Fox host Tucker Carlson is another fan, interviewing Yarvin with some fascination for his streaming program last year. He's even influenced online discourse — Yarvin was the first to popularize the analogy from The Matrix of being "redpilled" or "-pilled," suddenly losing your illusions and seeing the supposed reality of the world more clearly, as applied to politics…

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug

The right-wing's favorite Internet personality was just outed as a Russian troll -- Raw Story

Jenna Abrams' tweets were beloved, at times, by both the alt-right and the celebrity blogosphere. Now, Congressional investigators have confirmed that her Twitter account was actually run out of St. Petersburg, Russia's infamous troll farm. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/the-right-wings-favorite-internet-personality-was-just-outed-as-a-russian-troll/

White House-credentialed media outlet falsely accuses 'far left loon' of Las Vegas shooting -- ThinkProgress.org

The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump blog that has been credentialed by the White House, ran a story Monday morning touting a conspiracy theory and misidentifying the shooter that killed more than 50 people and injured more than 100 in Las Vegas early Monday. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/gateway-pundit-geary-danley-5280ad08276f/

GOP Senate candidate embraces men’s rights blogger who said ‘misogyny gets you laid’ -- ThinkProgress.org

Mike Cernovich is the sort of person that makes you question whether the internet is a good idea. An outspoken promoter of the false claim that a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. was a front for a pedophile ring involving Hillary Clinton, Cernovich offers men advice like "misogyny gets you laid" and "the hotter the sex, the more closely it resembles rape." ...
https://thinkprogress.org/josh-mandel-cernovich-adl-2d2cc228677c

Senate set to confirm unhinged right-wing blogger to powerful court -- ThinkProgress.org

The Donald Trump of judges....
https://thinkprogress.org/senate-set-to-confirm-unhinged-right-wing-blogger-to-powerful-court-fbcf89511efd

Trump Appeals Court Nominee Draws Fire For Blog Posts -- WFPL News

Louisville attorney John Bush made more than 400 posts to his blog, discussing subjects like his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage....
http://wfpl.org/trump-appeals-court-nominee-draws-fire-for-blog-posts/

Blogger falsely ties death of U.N. official to Clintons | PolitiFact

A self-described conservative blog revived a rumor from the Clinton body count archives. The blog Conservative Politicus had the stirring headline "U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident after all," on June 17. This has the essential ingredients to meet the appetite of any conspiracy fan: Clintons, a legal case and a dead man. That doesn’t mean those elements are on the money....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/30/blog-posting/blogger-falsely-ties-death-un-official-clintons/

Ten years in jail and 1,000 lashes: why we must defend Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

The theocratic and repressive regime in Riyadh has no regard for the western values and human rights we hold dear...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/raif-badawi-saudi-arabia-blogger