The "Grey Tribe" techbros and techbro stans of the "LessWrong" cult insisted they weren't political while announcing over and over again that the robot god requires billionaires to get richer and faster. yud-rational

my-hero used to have such an unassailable PR fortress going that even some leftist communities had struggle sessions about him. One of the most naive ones ever even said that he might bring "reason" to the then-upcoming Trump regime. lenin-dont-laugh

I remember up-yours-woke-moralists being declared "nonpolitical" by his cultists.

Joe Rogan of course had the "he sometimes has a lib on his show so he's strictly nonpolitical even while mostly signal boosting fascists" thing going for a while but I think no one really believes it anymore, not even his devotees.

Most recently, "MrBeast" started to visibly ride the chud slide, even if he was more incognito for a while because of the garish facade of le epic charity grifting.

Anyone actually remain in the plausible pretenses of nonpoliticalness that you know of?

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]M
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      27 days ago

      I haven't watched the AVGN in years, but I do know he's friends with Mike Matei (who did the intro drawings for his show and has made various appearances) who is a racist shithead. People found old cartoons drawn by him (that are horribly mask off racist), and he's never apologized for them. Apparently James is perfectly fine hanging out with a guy like that.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        27 days ago

        If someone sits down with 4 chuds, there are now 5 chuds at that table. hitler-detector

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        27 days ago

        I think there are some valid criticisms of Rolfe even beyond how he hung out with Matei for literal decades (he drew those edgelord comics when he was about 25, btw). Apparently, he stiffed many of his friends, like the guy who came up with the AVGN theme song, on pay.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      27 days ago

      Some of his fandom are screaming pieces of chud shit, but maybe he comes close.

      One of the most graphically violent haters I ever got on this site (all in defense of abusing workers to the point of them needing therapy while making "realistic" modern Mortal Kombat treats), one that wished me a particularly violent self-inflicted death, had AVGN as an avatar.