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  • If Jreg (character) was created from the combined spirits of Kim Il-sung, Ayn Rand, Julius Evola, and Che Guevara possessing a human person, how is he Radical Centrist's brother? Furthermore, in Centricide 6, Jreg (character) says the two were once one entity, eventually splitting up to take the edges and center of the political compass. This means anti-centrism, or whatever to call the mega-spirit possessing Greg, must have existed long before the events of Centricide. However, in the first episode, Radical Centrist explicitly says the spirits combined "recently".

  • In Centricide 1: The League of the Anti-Centrists, Moderate lampshades the inclusion of Che Guevara as the Anarcho-Communist alter ego on the grounds that Che Guevara wasn’t an anarcho-communist just a Communist leading to Radical Centrist attempting an explanation. Quite obviously the reason was for Fun with Acronyms it still raises the question. Why didn’t Moderate ask the same question about Ayn Rand. She supported an unregulated market to be sure but she wasn’t actually an anarcho-capitalist. Indeed, Rand wrote “I disapprove of disagree with and have no connection with the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called "hippies of the right” who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either” and she attacked the libertarians on the grounds that they “subordinate reason to whims and substitute anarchism for capitalism” and that to fuse capitalism and anarchism was “worse than anything the New Left has ever produced” and that “I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding and with a much greater respect.” Rand wasn’t an Anarcho-Capitalist.

And here it isn’t even necessary to have Rand be there for the Fun with Acronyms considering that the founder of Anarcho-Capitalism was Murray Rothbard (and as such it would still spell Jreg. (Sorry for the length.)

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