I don’t know much anything about him but he had a segment in his old show from the early 2000s about how Tibet was a feudal theocracy before the PRC came in, the Dali lama was used as a tool by the CIA, and interviewed Michael Parenti
I like how the video is still meh quality. I hope there is no high quality Parenti video
I hope there is no high quality Parenti video
there is. and it's really sad. It's when the genzedong redditors visited him after he went senile
Oh god, I remember that. Those kids should have left him alone. Also one of those people wound up being one of those patsoc guys
Extremely. Of media libertarians he's probably in the top ten to blame for random poor Americans thinking that lolbertarianism is a serious political philosophy.
He's probably the kinda guy where if he was born in greece or spain or some other country with some actual libertarians/anarchists he'd be a lefty. just an unfortunate case of the burger brains
So he likes Parenti cuz… he’s an anti-imperialist?
Plenty of Ron Paul style atheists pick up on the anti-imperialist line and pivot it into "And that's why we need to abolish Social Security and Medicare". Case in point The old "All your pension money is gone because the government spent it" line that ignores where US Currency comes from and how it circulates.
That would make him the rare Unicorn of “libertarian who actually follows the tenants of the ideology and isn’t just some crypto fash who likes pot”.
No. It would make him a cynic who is rich enough to eat from the imperialist trough while denouncing how the sausage gets made. He's not fascist. More a Champagne Anarchist. Sort of a parallel to the Jon Stewart / Steven Colbert liberal pundit class, shooting spitballs from the back of the classroom without ever seriously threatening the establishment.
Yeah Penn and Teller's Bullshit had as many cringe takes as good ones. I think the primary motivation behind the topics that show covered was contrarianism.
I remember thinking to myself that Bullshit was a great show except like 1/4 of the episodes P&T just couldn't smell their own. But that was a while ago, so it might be a much bigger fraction if I watched now.
Pretty sure it was more to do with being an atheist and therefore opposed to a theocratic Tibet.
But he has reliably ripped apart religious belief his entire career so it's not all bad.
i watched P&T BS with my grandma as a kid and somehow never saw this segment :party-parenti:
It's funny because at the end of that segment, he said "And this is why just because one thing is bad, you can't assume that everything is bad", and then still has to sneak in a last closing complaint about China being authoritarian and still a big human rights abuser
he has a patent on a bathtub purpose-built for sexual pleasure
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/celebrity-invention-penn-jillettes-bathtub-for-the-ladies/65007/
I already canceled him based on the title and my cancel guy says it's already in motion and can't be stopped now.
Better hope Penn doesn't have an Uno reverse card up his sleeve. But no, you're probably safe. What kind of magician keeps cards up his sleeves?
Before clicking, I was 50/50 on whether this was going to be a prank by him, or a prank by someone who had trained an AI speech model.
pretty sure he's a stupid asshole but i love him anyway
God entered my body, as a body. My same size. World's only Holy Ghost filled men
It just seems like a logical next-move when you've built a career on John Stossel Libertarianism, New Atheism, and a Vegas magic act. Dude's a smooth operator and of course he's looking for the next grift.
Turns out, in this particular case, the grift wasn't Jesus. It was dieting tips. This is a promo for his new weight-loss book.
:data-laughing: I thought it was deepfake initially to be honest :data-laughing: . The video quality was just low quality enough to activate my techno-spider-sense. Something about an all-white background and unfamiliar logo in the top-right had me going.
Well done, I will admit i was owned, fooled, and perhaps even possibly bamboozled
