Could you expand on this? How does one let oneself be associated with a douchey youtube shouty guy who sometimes says the right things, much less often than he says the wrong things?

If I start telling someone about my position on Ukraine, I'm not going to bring him up, and if someone else brings him up, I'll tell them that I'm only vaguely familiar and make it clear that my views aren't influenced by his. I'm also gonna dunk on people who hand-wring that "the left" (i.e. some tweets I saw) not liking him is a major problem somehow or an indication of hypocrisy or bad priorities.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but that seems to be the same position I have, and shipwreck has, about this. If you’ll notice their opening sentence

shipwreck isn't who I responded to?

And yeah the person I responded to admits he has bad positions but also goes on to make all these sweeping criticisms of "the left" for not wanting to be associated with him, which is what I disagree with.