he's always been trash. he's always been pro NATO, he actively worked for the privatization of yugoslavia in the 90s. A lot of people just didn't know that because "haha funny sniff man" is all they knew about him.

read this: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/

Indeed, he openly advocated for “planned privatizations” and flatly asserted, like a good capitalist ideologue: “more capitalism in our case would mean more social security.” This was, once again, in perfect line with Reagan’s NSDD 133, which explicitly called for “Yugoslavia’s long-term internal liberalization” and the promotion of a “market-oriented Yugoslav economic structure.”