Opinion of Del Tachi?

[Alcibiades]

His comments in the capitol siege thread were reprehensible.

What’d he say?

Basically that Democrats are to blame for Republicans wanting to do this and that if the mob no longer trusts American democracy, our country deserves to be torn down and rebuilt from the ashes. Basically the worst possible fusion of resentment politics and social contract theory.

This was the most egregious part of what he said:

Plus no building is no important than the Capitol. That's just sacred. You don't touch that.

It's great when the neolibs' masks slip just enough that you can plainly see that their true fidelity is to mere physical presentations of state power (i.e., literal buildings) and other objects, lol.  Power resides in people, not buildings.  If the U.S. Capitol ever becomes a symbol of a system of civil government that does not serve the best interests of the people, then it will deserve to be burned to the ground.

Like I said, if Joe Biden had any balls (like I wish he did), he would be declaring provisional government and martial law tonight.  Would he, if successful, destory the system of government that keeps Republicans artifically in power?  Probably yes, but that's the price that has to be paid to reconstitute our belief in a government that works for "the majority" (defined however the mob wishes.)  This isn't a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a matter of renewing our right to self-determination and refreshing the civil state (which really hasn't been seriously updated since the New Deal/WWII.)     

Scott, once again, captures my thoughts on today's happenings almost perfectly:

The system is broken and it needs to be rebuilt from the ground-up. I don't care who sparks it, but this is actually a moment for the disenfranchised and the cynics on both the left and right to retake the country for ourselves.

That the mob, as some sort of reward for their actions, should be allowed to dictate exactly how a new American system of government will work. Saying that a few thousand violent extremists should be allowed to impose their agenda unilaterally on the rest of the country? That’s not clever, sophisticated or intellectual. It’s just straight up moronic.

[Alcibiades]

That the mob, as some sort of reward for their actions, should be allowed to dictate exactly how a new American system of government will work. Saying that a few thousand violent extremists should be able to impose their agenda unilaterally on the rest of the country? That’s not clever, sophisticated or intellectual. It’s just straight up moronic.

Oclocracy is definitely moronic, but I don't see why it can't be sophisticated and intellectual as well.

This particular example comes across as someone so desperately trying to be contrarian and defend the indefensible that they end up with an argument that is completely intellectually incoherent. More broadly, Del Tachi frequently engages in sophistry, which while it can be appear to be clever and sophisticated, is ultimately totally intellectually vacuous.

[Alcibiades]

The reaction against him is a striking illustration of how much the Overton window has narrowed on this forum compared to where it used to be.

I dissent!

DC, TJ, RI, John Dule, RINO Tom, Deadman, and a number of serious rightists on this forum are just as prominent as ever. To pretend that there’s been some drastic shift there is nonsense.

Speaking as one of those serious rightists, I agree with Shua. The forum has become significantly less hospitable to rightists over the past few years. Based on my conversations with other forum rightists, I suspect most of the other serious rightists you cited agree with me.

It goes both ways though. Saruku was relentlessly attacked and driven off the forum.

Genocide denial usually leads to that, yes.

He never did that, unless you want to accuse the numerous people who said they would swear in on a copy of the US Constitution of the same thing, because apparently defending or supporting a country is also justifying/denying every crime they may or may not have committed.

Also, we just had a poster call the Confederate surrender the darkest moment in American history. Come to think of it, Del Taco might agree with that one. It certainly seems on brand.

Saruku was not merely an apologist for the PRC, he explicitly stated that he thought there was nothing wrong with the treatment of the Uighurs.