Like, was he even known for his politics? I knew him as a weird actor whose primary vehicle for comedy was just being a weird oddball. They really will just defend any sex criminal?
He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.
I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.
Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”
He was an outspoken Leftist campaigner in the early 2010s. Then when more and more stories started getting spread about his rapey antics, nobody on the Left would talk to him any more and he had to go find some new friends.
yea he is, at least the start of covid he pivoted hard, i kept seeing him on my feed unintentionally, and when not logging in youtube during that time. he probably suspected this was going to happen eventually.
The conservative sub was malding over this.
Like, was he even known for his politics? I knew him as a weird actor whose primary vehicle for comedy was just being a weird oddball. They really will just defend any sex criminal?
He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.
I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.
Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”
He was an outspoken Leftist campaigner in the early 2010s. Then when more and more stories started getting spread about his rapey antics, nobody on the Left would talk to him any more and he had to go find some new friends.
A brilliant Aussie comic called Brendan Burns said “he looks like the personification of hepatitis” and I hear that every time I see these headlines
He started being very US politics on his podcast for a bit and then he switched over to Christianity and conservative grift.
am I imagining it or did he do a baptism with jd vance?
I’m fairly sure he was being groomed to be peter thiel’s new pope
I guess I just missed all that. I would see a random clip from him on Fox here and there but didn’t realize he was “known” for politics
yea he is, at least the start of covid he pivoted hard, i kept seeing him on my feed unintentionally, and when not logging in youtube during that time. he probably suspected this was going to happen eventually.
He was a very prominent left-wing figure, and then-Labour leader Ed Milliband visited him at home to ask for his endorsement in the 2015 election.
Since his behaviour became more publicly known, he took a dive to the far right and has appeared in public with the likes of Fucker Carlson.