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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
i recently stumbled upon his “tetragrammaton” podcast on youtube, listening to the episode with soad’s daron malakian, which was actually very interesting.
then i had a look at what other interviews were on offer. among popular actors and musicians there are such luminaries as: palmer luckey, peter thiel, mark mcafee (apparrently some raw milk tycoon), jay bhattacharya (covid-19 hoaxer type guy i guess), mr eggman himself, etc etc
on the podcast rubin comes off as this cool, open-minded hippie person, “just asking questions” and “having a conversation” with interesting people. so i guess he’s just sort of following the rogan formula. except i think rubin has a bit more brain matter left than the mma/dmt guy. so i can’t help but wonder if this podcast is a bit more of a targeted effort at influencing new age people just coming across it like i did.
i was actually quite surprised at this, so i also did a bit of searching, and apart from the post you linked i also came across nothing else. but his work speaks for itself i guess.
That’s a crazy lineup. I love how you can just say eggman/egghead on awful systems and I think everyone will know the person in question.
i’m gonna need a hint here, boss. Here’s my guesses:
my guesses
any of these except the last one wouldn’t be an implausible guest of this podcast, honestly. (i was talking about andreessen)
Another big oof. Hippie ass white guy saying that we should just JAQ off and give other problematic white guys a chance. Sounds about white!
Also his book is co/ghost written by Neil Strauss, the game/PUA manual guy.