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From: Sam Roizen <96695530+SamRoizen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:45:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update reference to JD Vance to reflect vice-presidential win

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 [^NRX]: James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, *The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age* (New York: Touchstone, 1999).  Mencius Moldbug, *Unqualified Reservations* https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/. Balaji Srinavasan, *The Network State* (Self-published, 2022) available at https://thenetworkstate.com/.  Bronze Age Pervert, *Bronze Age Mindset* (Self-published, 2018).
 
-Libertarianism has a close, but also somewhat complicated, relationship with the nationalist and far-right in democratic countries.  On the one hand, most participants identify with this group and support it, to the extent they engage with politics, as illustrated by Thiel’s emergence as a primary financial supporter of Donald Trump and his supporters.  In fact, several leading hard right politicians are closely connected to the Libertarian worldview: prominent British Conservative Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is the son of Lord William Rees-Mogg, Thiel employs former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Thiel protégés Blake Masters and J. D. Vance ran for Senate in 2022, with the latter winning a seat.
+Libertarianism has a close, but also somewhat complicated, relationship with the nationalist and far-right in democratic countries.  On the one hand, most participants identify with this group and support it, to the extent they engage with politics, as illustrated by Thiel’s emergence as a primary financial supporter of Donald Trump and his supporters.  In fact, several leading hard right politicians are closely connected to the Libertarian worldview. Indeed, prominent British Conservative Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is the son of Lord William Rees-Mogg. Additionally, Thiel employs former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Thiel protégés Blake Masters, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022. He also protégés Vice President-Elect J.D. Vance, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022, won the seat, and went on to win the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election as President Donald J. Trump's running mate.
 
 On the other hand, Libertarianism is consistently hostile to nationalism (or any other form of collectivism or solidarity) and Libertarian followers routinely mock and dismiss many core religious, national and cultural values associated with the right.   This apparent contradiction may be resolved by a shared antipathy to what they perceive as dominant left-wing cultural values or by an “accelerationist” attitude as advocated by Yarvin, Davidson and Rees-Mogg that views the “nationalist backlash” to the inevitable technological trends as an accelerant and possible ally in the dissolution of the nation-state.