very tall and very gold

you know things are going well when someone feels the need to stick to perfectly neutral description instead of an actual opinion.

Using "childish" as an insult. Bruh, have you talked with kids? Literally any kids. Easiest group of people on Earth to radicalize.

as with most denigration that consists of comparison with a lower hierarchical strata, it is not based in truth but in the universality of the discrimination itself. we say that being like a child is insulting largely on the grounds of an adult distaste for the notion of the rights of children. "you don't have the right to protest your conditions: you are dependent on me for any survival at all."

in other words, much like calling police "pigs" is an insult to pigs, calling people childish is most of the time not literally descriptive but first and foremost an insult to children.

there is a spectre haunting jordan b peterson: the spectre of communism

huh, never been jealous of a spider before...

cuba has the opportunity to do the funniest thing... teach this guy to read.

But I think we should remember he does a lot of apolitical content like just gaming streams and stuff. I think a lot of his fans mostly like him for the entertainment value and less cuz they totally agree with all his political takes.

there is truth to the notion that at least some significant proportion of his fans are there more for the bloodsport and general news coverage than are there for his specific political ideology. there is not truth to the notion that he spends much time doing apolitical content, it's significantly less than 1% of his overall output in the last three years. also the concurrent viewership drops by half the second he does something that's not news/politics. it's considered a meme within his community the extent to which he says he'll do apolitical content and then doesn't.

for what it's worth, i have no qualm with your take or feelings, i just think you should have up-to-date anthropological data.

he also tells people to join PSL, i don't think you have a good handle on what his average is. if you're only seeing his most entryist efforts, you're going to get the view being offered to people with little to no political consciousness.

i'm on the opposite end of the consumption spectrum here and you've pretty much got it bang on. i think his "reformist politics" are overstated. his role is raising consciousness and informing, not getting candidates elected. he's supported candidates who are exclusively opposed by and funded against by the democratic party. they're aren't socialist, but in his broader commentary and established political project, the point isn't to try and magically socialize the democratic party: the goal is to try and help elect people that want to end the genocide, and that they tend to be great mouthpieces for the failed neoliberalist democratic party is all the better.

i've watched the majority of his livestreams over the last few years because i wanted to get a sense of if he is a sincere operator and if he is more radical than what one might perceive based on any other form of being informed about his coverage. i would answer in the affirmative to both.

i think it's likely you disagree with the part of his work that is highlighted here, but i think it's fundamentally unserious to conclude he's a liberal from just that. you can disagree with people that are on your side.

right here, man

maybe dont get a nazi tatoo if you dont want to get called nazi?

speaking of which, that's another thing that amerikkkans don't care about. the smears didn't work because maine is an extremely white, extremely rural state. the only nazi symbol the average person can recognize and then bring themselves to feel something about is a swastika. otherwise people would (rightly) be making a much bigger and more constant deal about hegseth's equally fascist crusader tattoos.

i've heard that this "autopsy report" might just be complete garbage in quality, like the dnc guy ken martin just handed it off to a buddy who did a shitty job actually collecting the data and such. since we all have a pretty good idea why she lost, turns out people are disgusted by genocide, i think it will be much more interesting if this report comes out and everyone has to make sense not of its conclusions, since we know those anyway, but if a person with any professional experience whatsoever even made it.