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Knowing these guys a bit, I’ll slightly disagree. They were always regressive, and don’t actually have enough fluency to have a genuine political POV. This is why bullshit narratives that flatter them, like Yarvin-style neoreaction, could easily sway them. Then, rising worker power radicalized them.

In the last year, I heard from their political advisors they were never concerned about democracy, just the instability that Trump would bring to markets. But they realize they make money in China. In the 90s we thought capitalism and democracy went hand in hand, now we know they don’t have to.

I’m aware! In the 90s it was a common way that free trade was sold to Americans, if we sell hamburgers in China, they’ll become a democracy