• Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    The only stuff of his that has any validity is the most rote self-help stuff you could find anywhere else when you get to the substance of it. He's just good at framing it in a way that scratches the chud itch for their actions to be noble and heroic.

    All his other rhetoric of course is batshit protect western culture stuff, and that blend made him nice and popular among right wing failkids.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, his self help stuff is what the faculty at any university hands our during orientation. Saying it was valuable was always a justification for liking him when the reality is his popularity is solely due to his transphobic stances.

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        He's also a rabid anti communist and spreader of settler colonialist apologia, in addition to denying global warming and lying all of the god damn time

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, he's generally very reactionary. I'm sure his right wing views more broadly are the reason for his popularity with a certain subset of people, personally the only IRL JP fan I know is a preppy rich kid. I more meant that I think his transphobic views were his initial launch into "stardom".

          • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I mean that's literally true, he got famous for being extremely mad about laws that punish you for harassing trans people with the wrong pronouns