(April 17, 2021 at 3:59 pm)Sal Wrote: I did a dip into the political right-of-center pipeline, and drank the Kool-Aid, it wasn't until I watched Vaush, PhilosophyTube & Natalie Wynn
(Contrapoint) pick apart Sargon of Akkad, Tim Pool, Jordan Peterson, etc. little band of politically right bullshit. I especially remember Vaush probing through the Count-"It's just a joke"-Dankula, who hides his hate for immigrants and right-leaning idiocy behind a veneer & fall-back to "It's just a joke" bs.
I remember buying and reading Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" and thinking that it was a good self-help book, with his view of meta-narratives; I had a blind-spot for all the religious language and style he employs.
I have mainly Vaush to thank for, for making me realize what kind of, almost mentally ill, emotionally appeals they make. I was atheist well before that, but I had lukewarm feelings for all things religious - I've now gone further left than even before my dip into the right-political pipeline, to the point of reading stuff by Marx & Engels Selected Works. I would consider myself even anti-Capitalist at this point, where capitalism is an evil we have to combat, from within and outside looking in, if you understand me.
Jimmy Snow was my key to everything. Not to get too much into my deconversion story, but I was happy to be inactive from church but still a deep believer at heart. Then I watched one of Mr. Atheist's videos like, 10 things Mormons don't want you to know, or something like that. I was confident in my testimony, arrogantly snorting over what his bad faith interpretation might be. So, I watched it, to boost my ego and how much truth I knew and how stupid and lost he was. I didn't get far into the video before the hinges began to squeak. It sent me down the rabbit hole for leaving Mormnism. Then, as I started leaving all religion behind, I started watching more of Jimmy Snow's videos. He's a big LGBT advocate. Once or twice I saw Genetically Modified Skeptic and Matt Dillahunty on his channel and I started watching their content too. I also like a few analyses of conservative content creators that I have seen Big Joel do.
This was a great analysis that started me thinking about this shift I've gone through and trying to figure out the exact nature of how I've changed.
