• Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        i won't divine the guy's manners or anything it's just that's where the money will be :shrug-outta-hecks: and he's already talked to so many right wingers in the 'biz'

      • Bay_of_Piggies [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I don't see it. Virgil seemed like a deeply anxious person. I don't really get that vibe from Andrew. I think a rightwing grift trajectory makes a lot more sense. It's not like he's some principled leftist.

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          AFAIK the allegations against Virgil never went anywhere and nobody was actually able to confirm them or follow up with the accuser and I think he was just sick of being in the public eye

          Could be wrong on the allegations but I certainly never came across an update

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        business relationship with right wingers and sv allegations, hostility to corporate liberal media

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        idk his own subreddit looks like its taken it seriously, doesn't look like he has much of a cult of parasocial weirdos to spend hours defending & sanitizing him

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        his movie was just baby-brain unprincipled populism & he even interviewed brace in it. who is a weirdo anyway not someone who makes you leftist by association

        • RonJeremyCorbyn [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          i'm not asserting that the dude is a leftist, i just an skeptical that brace would hang with a far right grifter (though that may be giving brace too much credit).

          i've only seen an interview with chet hanks, and an interview of key west papas (ft. brace). it seems to me andrew's brand is just interviewing goofs and letting them be goofy. but, by all means, if you're the NPR woman and think that interviewing one of the most independently popular right wing dipshits is "platforming" him, you do you.

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            callaghan just had a bunch of sv allegations come out. i think its likely after his business gets hit he'll pivot, because the right wing loves 'cancelled' and vile people & will throw money at him