https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1o4utqa/new_reason_why_china_is_about_to_collapse_just/

Insane levels of cope and chauvinism fusing together in the biggest brains online right now. Why do people find guys like this insightful? I feel like it’s always heterodox reactionary types and tech-adjacent rationalist types who talk and think like this and find such ideas resonant and important.

This online sphere seems more and more important to the ideological reproduction and political direction of the modern American conservative movement. And it feels so deeply stupid and rooted in some new form of mysticism dressed up as intellectual and philosophical, presenting itself as grounded in time-tested wisdom, realpolitik, and common sense, though its anything but.