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Recently one of you emailed us with this request.
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Hello.
I'm an avid listener and I strongly believe you should cover the story of Curtis Yarvin.
It's important to explore who he is and how he has influenced the MAGA and the Tech Bros movement.
Curtis Yarvin is a very online far-right philosopher whose ideas include the fascinating,
the esoteric, the absurd, the racist, and so on.
Six months into the Trump administration,
there's evidence that he is influencing the MAGA movement and even President Trump.
J.D.
Vance knows him and likes him.
Elon consulted him about this third-party idea.
Yarvin can take some credit for inspiring Doge and, as you'll hear ahead,
one of trump's most controversial doesn't even begin to cover it ideas may have come from yarvin or someone who reads his substack i can almost guarantee you that trump does not everything's computer that's coming up avoiding your unfinished home projects
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