Thursday, August 01, 2024

J.D. Vance endorsed a book calling for murder of opponents

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them). It was written by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, who are two right-wing extremists who lean very, very hard into what can only be described as fascism and white supremacy. Nathan J. Robinson of Current Affairs read the whole thing and wrote a detailed breakdown of the book yesterday. The broad overview:

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Unhumans is both a manifesto and a guide for action. Its central argument, which I will state as dispassionately as possible, is that leftists are not fellow human beings who should be accepted as part of a pluralistic society, but rather "unhumans" bent on destroying the civilized order. Citing the usual parade of 20th century communist dictators (Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot), Posobiec and Lisec argue that even if it may not look like the contemporary United States is under threat from a communist revolution, we are under threat, besieged by furtive, scheming unhumans who must be rooted out before they can consummate their fiendish plot to commit mass murder. Stopping the unhumans will require shedding commitments to democracy, free speech, reasoned debate, and tolerance of alternate points of view. Instead, they argue, the right should find its role models in Caesar, Joseph McCarthy, and various murderous anti-communist dictators of the 20th century.

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As Robinson notes, the book repeatedly and explicitly praises Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who employed mass killings, torture and the systematic illegal detention of their political opponents in order to maintain power. Pinochet was notorious for throwing people to their deaths from helicopters, which is something the authors of Unhuman specifically praise because, hey, Chile didn't have any communists, right, so whatever Pinochet was doing was fine.

But again: the book is not just looking back at history and saying "good job, fellas." It's a forward-looking manifesto advocating for American leaders to employ similar methods to crush what they view to be rising communist hordes of "unhumans" here, but which are clearly just Democrats, socialists, liberals, and other people who lean left. It's absolutely chilling stuff from two men who are nothing short of psychopathic. For his part, Robinson says, "it is perhaps the most paranoid, hateful, and terrifying book I have ever picked up. (I say this as someone who has read Mein Kampf.)"

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-08-01 11:47 AM

Why am I mentioning all of this? Because J.D. Vance provided an endorsement of the book. Blurbed the damn thing with his name right on the back cover. His exact words:

In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through HR [Human Resources], college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people. In Unhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.

Again, this is not something Vance wrote years ago when he was young, dumb, and naive. The book came out three weeks ago. I've blurbed a lot of books and I know the lead time for that sort of thing, so it's absolutely certain that Vance read and endorsed this book within the last six months or so.

The past week or so of calling J.D. Vance "weird" has been fun, but make no mistake: he's evil. I don't use that word lightly. One cannot write what he wrote about this book " a book advocating for widespread political violence, including murder, which Vance considers good instruction as to how "to fight back" " without being evil.

He should be asked about this constantly. He should answer for this. And he should, under no circumstances, be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-08-01 11:49 AM

And he should, under no circumstances, be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent

The Senate levers of power Peter Thiel paid $15,000,000 for him to occupy.

#3 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-08-01 01:03 PM

As much as it pains jeffyjbell
He is forced to concede jd bocephus is right

But don't get that confused with him agreeing, even though he just agreed

#4 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2024-08-01 11:04 PM

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