A good article that weirdly goes into full on unicorns-and-lollipop-trees fantasyland in the final sentence:
By finding ways to convince Trump that his actions will make him and the country weaker, he can be constrained and ultimately driven out of office.
Trump isn’t going to be convinced of anything. Admitting fault or even taking time to genuinely listen to what anyone else has to say are weakness in his eyes. He backpedals and changes his mind out of fear, not reasoned argument, then denies anything happened. He also absolutely does not care one iota if the country is weak or not, only whether he, personally, feels strong at any given moment. He’s a deluded, demented, narcissistic moron, yet even articles like this criticizing him can’t help sane-washing him to some degree, just to pull him into some distantly relatable frame of reference.
My brain is broken. If you know you know for rest of you, you don’t want to know.
Pass, thanks. My brain cannot handle more trauma just now.
I feel like that’s kind of an insult to dorks? He’s just another mediocre white dude with fascist leanings…
The article illustrates, among other things, an important truth: that an over-investment in the idea of intelligence per se, and in particular the obsession with IQ as a measure of personal worth, is almost always a symptom of a stunted intellect.
Yeah… spot on!
She suggests that his embrace of a provocative ideology might be a “repetition compulsion”, a psychic defence allowing him to reframe the ostracisation he felt as an unpopular, nerdy kid.
Much like Musk, though, one wonders if the “unpopular, nerdy” thing is a persona that dipshits like this cultivate to justify being assholes? I’m guessing in reality, he was actually a bully at some point?
Dork usually means someone with poor social skills. I think there are three general paths for that:
- I guess I need to practice my social skills more.
- Eh, I’m happy enough with what I have now.
- Why don’t these losers appreciate my obvious excellence?
Yarvin is plainly the third, as are a lot of the self-proclaimed “geniuses” of the right. I’ll agree it would be nice to have a more specific name for it, since the first two don’t really deserve to be associated with that toxicity. 
True!
Yeah, I was wondering about something like “malignant dork”. But that still sounds like the “dork” part is the shameful bit to my ears. And it really shouldn’t be; whatever your opinion of dorks (I embrace my dorkiness and that of others), it’s not the important bit here.
ETA
Just to mention that this story, important as it is, has graphic descriptions of animal cruelty and probably more human cruelty.
(I noped right out of the article when I got to the sixth paragraph, which was describing the actions of a 14-year-old girl. I had to protect my mental health, which has been taking a beating lately.)