the Maggots’ somersaults over Covid-19

US market-libertarians throw a critical light on what MAGA and sundry alt.right now say about anti-Covid measures, compared to what they said back at the time:

https://reason.com/2025/09/05/the-anti-lockdown-imposters-of-the-new-right/

That Yarvin is really something. The full quote from him about ‘the state capitalism of the Soviet Union’ is this:

‘This state of affairs — literally the state capitalism of the Soviet Union — will, like the Soviet Union, slowly decay. But the epidemic is measured in months; the command-economy rot, in decades.’

(Here — https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/plan-a-for-the-coronavirus-7db3997490c1 — it can be seen in the full context of what he wrote at the time.)