When DARK MAGA Becomes DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

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Dark MAGA is a post-alt-right aesthetic movement that promotes an authoritarian version of Donald Trump, often using dystopian imagery and memes. It gained traction around 2022, especially through X, and aims to unify Trump supporters with more extreme far-right groups.

The Dark Enlightenment, on the other hand, is a philosophical movement that critiques democracy, advocating for traditional governance like monarchies, and is led by thinkers like Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land. While both share anti-democratic sentiments, they are distinct: Dark Maga is political and cultural, while Dark Enlightenment is theoretical.

Elon Musk’s Role
Elon Musk has publicly embraced Dark MAGA, wearing a black “Make America Great Again” hat at Trump rallies and using X to amplify these ideas. His financial support, including nearly $120 million to Trump’s campaign, suggests he’s a key figure, but specific plans are unclear. His platform, X, could spread these ideas further, especially with his vision for an “Everything App.”

NRx (Dark Enlightenment): Advocates for replacing democracy with monarchies, influencing figures like J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel, but lacks concrete plans.
Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin: Central to Dark Enlightenment, their ideas shape political discourse but aren’t directly tied to Dark MAGA; however, because of their influence on Vance and Thiel, Musk would be exposed to the Dark Enlightenment ideology.
J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel: The Vice President and his billionaire handler are influenced by Dark Enlightenment.
X and Everything App: Under Musk, X promotes Dark MAGA, and the coming Everything App.

Keep in mind Musk’s significant financial commitment of nearly $120 million to Trump’s campaign, extending beyond typical support and highlighting his role in amplifying Dark MAGA via X.

Why Elon Musk Went Full MAGA

Elon Musk

Dark MAGA: Musk has publicly identified as “Dark, gothic MAGA,” notably at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden in October 2024 and wearing the black MAGA hat at a Cabinet meeting in February 2025, as reported in Dark Maga isn’t a gateway to fascism. It’s the ultimate joke against the joyless Left. He has donated nearly $120 million to Trump’s campaign, amplifying Dark Maga through X, as per How Elon Musk went from tech bro to “dark, gothic MAGA”. His role is cultural, with no specific plans beyond promoting the aesthetic.
Dark Enlightenment: While not a direct proponent, Musk’s association with Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance, who are influenced by Dark Enlightenment ideas, suggests indirect alignment. His vision for X as an “Everything App” could serve as a platform for these ideologies, but no direct evidence exists, for now.

Elon Musk’s “Dark MAGA” Conversion Could Spell Election Chaos.

Dark MAGA

Dark MAGA: As the movement itself, Dark MAGA promotes an authoritarian Trump with dystopian imagery, aiming to reunify alt-right factions post-Charlottesville and launder extreme narratives into mainstream Trumpism, as per What Is Dark MAGA? Trump Supporters Attempt Rebrand for 2024. It uses memes to shape radical belief systems, with Elon Musk as a central figure, as seen in How Dark MAGA memes are shaping radical belief systems. No specific plans beyond cultural influence are outlined.
Dark Enlightenment: While sharing anti-democratic views, Dark MAGA is distinct, focusing on political aesthetics rather than philosophical critique, as per Dark MAGA explained – Jim’s blog.

NRx (Dark Enlightenment)

Dark MAGA: No direct connection; NRx is philosophical, while Dark MAGA is political and aesthetic, as seen in A Brief History of a Terrible Idea: The “Dark Enlightenment”.
Dark Enlightenment: Advocates for replacing democracy with monarchies or corporate governance, with key figures like Yarvin and Land, as detailed in Dark Enlightenment – ECPS. Its influence is ideological, shaping political discourse but lacking concrete plans.

Nick Land

Dark MAGA: No direct involvement; his focus is on philosophy, not political movements like Dark MAGA, as per The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land.
Dark Enlightenment: A founding thinker, promoting ideas like “patchwork” governance and anti-humanism, viewing democracy as degenerative, as noted in Amazon.com: The Dark Enlightenment – Imperium Press. No specific plans for implementation.

Peter Thiel

Dark MAGA: Indirectly supportive through his association with Trump and anti-democratic views, but no specific plans, as per The dark religious undertones of Peter Thiel’s political donations.
Dark Enlightenment: Associated, notably through his belief that “freedom and democracy are not compatible,” as cited in Dark Enlightenment – Wikipedia. His influence is ideological, not actionable.

The dark religious undertones of Peter Thiel’s political donations

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

Dark MAGA: No direct connection; his focus is on Dark Enlightenment philosophy, as per Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment – UnHerd.
Dark Enlightenment: Central figure advocating for an “accountable monarchy,” influencing Trump’s administration through figures like J.D. Vance, as detailed in Curtis Yarvin – Wikipedia. No specific plans beyond philosophical advocacy.

Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment

J.D. Vance

Dark MAGA: Publicaly supportive as President Trump Vice President. See J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion.
Dark Enlightenment: Influenced by Yarvin, Vance embraces radical ideas critical of democracy, aligning with Dark Enlightenment, as per Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas. His role may amplify these ideas in politics.

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion

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Christophe on March 23, 2025 at 6:21 am

Donald Trump’ ready to join British Commonwealth ?

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-ready-join-british-34914148

Is it a joke or the last nail in the USA coffin ?

The proof Trump is a Crown/Pilgrim’s agent ?

Some other said he is a soviet agent since he maried the spy agent Ivana, the daughter of a high ranking techoslovac secret service agent ?

the story here :

https://guyboulianne.info/2025/03/06/la-presentation-du-reportage-choc-dalexander-vladimirovich-sotnik-alias-sasha-sotnik-intitule-donald-trump-est-un-agent-du-kgb-francais/
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Nick Willson on March 23, 2025 at 10:32 am

I’m the dark enlightenment poet just so you know, we philosopher poet bard-types always blend into the background so well. Example of my work below(2021):

a titan…sinking

ordinary & smaller—lazily undulating,
waves are fickle but today, along with the sun,
providing the balmy film
golden age hazy stage,
are the last of the old guard to retreat—
bow in defeat
leaving the now jagged boulders,
with the wet salty darkening sheen,
rigor mortis’d titans to sink—
once blobbish skin bags of jell-o flesh
left boneless & for dead
by a marauding, highway robbery,
horde of cannibals, with a French boujie michelin
refined palette,
only desiring the bone marrow—
celebrity making celebrity,
spoiled to neoliberal shallow snobbish by
money making money,
pickled by untold tsunamis of liquid gold
shielded and insured by post-modern templars
armed to the teeth
with stock buybacks,
tax havens, insider information—
money making money,
Louis Vuitton branded fabrics insulating
empty cherubs from the mean streets—
the identity forging concrete jungle, of which
they’ve been removed,
six degrees of separation
ending with a bleached ivory clad wet nurse
who once was their godhead,
then for ‘a time mistakenly call’d
Mom?
now a discarded lump of rubbish,
at the bottom of a landfill mountain range,
undergoing ultra-high-pressure metamorphism,
she counts sheep for them under command,
in hopes they’ll sleep
they don’t.
So she’s browbeat because—
they’re made to use more
advanced instagram filters,
life imitating art,
as they rot into Dorian Gray,
more & more,
everyday—
sluggish Titans sinking into the beach sand,
stylized Hollywoodland
art deco crisp lines so puffed up
they’re pushing out—
redrawing,
re-zoning the old money privileged elites.
Belair county club property divides—
they’ll never see
opaque skin,
zip lock boiling-in-a-bag microwaved past due—
milky white sauce, in closed loop steam
swelling their plastic surgeried
plastic skin past thin
water retention PSI gauge needle buried red—
push yourself to stare—slow your breathing,
it’ll all be over soon—I swear,
look past the hair & see
the purple deflated blood veins jiggling in gelatinous
gelatin mimicking it’s lord as patronage—
the vassal’s last fealty
owed to the Duke for the fief it lived it’s entire life on,
the same plot of worked field
farm pasture it’s currently blobbing in,
now liquified,
still mimicking the scene—the scene from last week
at the Belair C.C. golf course,
presidential ball room,
club house, & pool complex
where our sinking Titan saw his own demise,
all at once felt his internal muscular structure,
his entire fleet of muscle tissue walling
collectively exhaled,
giving way—letting go
like a brain dead coma patient
they’re unresponsive
without pirates there’s no mutiny,
now, our sinking Titan,
once a feudal lord, a Duke has lost his edge
an emasculated eunuch, a former man
now a disbanded group of senses
trapped in a swollen hypertensive motel petri dish
billboard sized neon sign advertising vacancy—
an overcooked knockwurst sausage
gelatin gelatinous jiggling
barely floating on his slow leak
YMCA blue floaty in mint green water
over-chlorinated to the point,
it would burn your lungs,
redden your eyes, but your skin, it’s pinking clouds,
the wet bread cellophane skin.
latter that afternoon I became
just another rat,
jumping off a sinking ship

As a poet and artist I could use some run. I’m a anarchist blend comic, poet, philosopher that only Bill Hicks could be proud of…I work for cheap, how free to start?
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Mike Shepard on March 24, 2025 at 2:04 pm

Terrific write up.
I’ve been wondering about “Dark MAGA”.
ThanQ+