ContraPoints / William Nicholas Parrott / Natalie Wynn Parrott / Nykytyne2 - GamerGhazi Cannibalism Victim, Youtube "Intellectual"

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Hitler wasn't autistic, he was just a German.

Wrong. He was Austrian. Read a history book.

 

[Cryin RN]

Is there anything more privileged than thinking spending new Lexus money for surgeries in order to attract more (straight) cocks into your STD hole is "terrifying and difficult"?

He's proud of his ~female viewership ratio~ but doesn't understand how unrelatable bragging about his plastic surgeries is- especially for non-woke viewers who would think trans women would get THE surgery first (lol wrong). Even beautubers don't get away with stunting on their cheek fillers. It gets clicks initially, but people remember.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Wrong. He was Austrian. Read a history book.

He was German, Austria was German, the Grossdeutschland problem wasn't solved until after WW2.

 

[whatintheheck]

HRT pills are just opiates for cowards - Che before blasting a black tranny in the dick with a shotgun.

Nah, opiates are opiates for cowards. Hormones don't have anywhere near the same effects as actual drugs.

Doctors are beginning to modify their approach towards treating transgender patients, and in fact there's a lot of hesitation re: the typical HRT regiment you hear about a lot of internet troons taking via interweb black markets and/or shady "informed consent clinics" -- spironolactone in particular is being reconsidered in its use with HRT. Check out this doctor's lecture if you're interested in a detailed medical presentation about the topic (warning, long and has a bunch of medical jargon -- probably boring for anyone not in the healthcare field): Healthcare of the Transgender Patient

Some of the tl;dr facts mentioned by William J. Powers, D.O.*:
-There is currently no official guideline for Standard of Care, and insurance often doesn't cover gender dysphoria related issues
-41% of transgender patients will attempt suicide by the age of 30 -- his belief is that while there are obviously risks and side effects with treatment, those risks outweigh the potential of patients just offing themselves due to gender dysphoria.
-Besides psychological issues and correlations such as autism spectrum, there are multiple physical reasons that can cause or are linked with gender dysphoria, including certain chemical exposure and various forms of congenital deformities/syndromes, endocrine disorders, hormone receptivity disorders, the mother having previously had multiple miscarriages, etc.
-99% of women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia are lesbians -- of these, about 5% end up eventually identifying as male
-If one twin has gender dysphoria, it's more likely for the other to also have it -- implying that there is indeed a genetic component, at least for certain etiologies of gender dysphoria
-He buys into the concept of there being "gendered brains" based on their observed structure via MRI scans... however there are studies that are in direct opposition to this viewpoint.
-He's also a pioneer in a method for FtM patients where instead of the standard phalloplasty surgery (which has plenty of complications and really is more of a superficial construct), he uses a high dose of topical testosterone applied directly to these patient's clitorises in an effort to have them grow into an actually functional penis
-He will only treat his patients with bio-identical hormones -- this apparently reduces the risk of side effects. If he has a patient come to him on spironolactone, he will take them off of it due to all of the terrible side effects.
-He posits a (currently unproven, but potentially valid) theory regarding a possible origin of MtFs during fetal development, due to a relationship of a mutation that processes estrone exposure during neurological development that lays down mental structures as "female" rather than male -- he also said that this particular mutation is present in approximately 1/3 of his MtF patients
-He mentions that a common co-morbidity of his MtF patients is being HIV+ -- 57% in his black MtF patients, and 12% of his white MtF patients
-He predicts that penis and/or uterus transplants will eventually be done in transgender patients
-Vocal feminization surgery has apparently come a long long way
-He recognizes that gender dysphoria manifests along a spectrum -- some patients will be suicidal without transitioning; other patients only experience mild discomfort and really don't need to seek out HRT or GRS -- he emphasizes that it's always a risk/benefit ration decision

This guy seems earnest in his efforts to help patients that are suffering from legitimate gender dysphoria. In the presentation, he doesn't come across as someone that is motivated by money or practicing hack-job surgeries. In fact he wants this sort of treatment (at least the standard HRT portion of it) to be something that family doctors/general practitioners all over would provide, instead of just niche specialists— he even argues that hormonal therapy for transgender patients is a lot easier and more straightforward than treating diabetic patients — which is something that general practitioner do commonly treat.

*HOWEVER

minor power level:

I actually was aware of this dude Will Powers when I was an undergraduate at UPitt -- and it's purely coincidental that I happened upon this particular video. Powers was actually a bit of a lolcow back then, running for student government and inserting himself into various campus groups and causes, frequently seen walking around with a pretentious Holga 120 camera, being a pretty typical douche bro at frat parties. He was a few years ahead of me, but I ran into him on occasion since I was also a Neuroscience undergrad and it was a fairly small program (relatively speaking). It's slightly amusing to see him pop up years later as a Family Medicine specialist in "LGBT, HIV, and Transgender Care" -- I guess in retrospect, I'm not entirely surprised with his choice of career — since he seemed like someone who loved drama, which I’m sure he now gets a lot of with this patient population. Good for him though to be contributing to society in a meaningful way.

 

[Erich Raeder]

-99% of women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia are lesbians -- of these, about 5% end up eventually identifying as male

Seems extremely hard for me to believe, is there anything even close to having this predictive value for sexual orientation in men?

-He's also a pioneer in a method for FtM patients where instead of the standard phalloplasty surgery (which has plenty of complications and really is more of a superficial construct), he uses a high dose of topical testosterone applied directly to these patient's clitorises in an effort to have them grow into an actually functional penis

This seems outlandish too and my next question would be if it works on my dick as well

-Vocal feminization surgery has apparently come a long long way

Two years ago I heard a tranny who recently has this surgery done talking in a Teamspeak server and I couldn’t help but laugh at his voice. If I can’t tell anymore it must have really gone a long way.

One thing I really don’t understand is why men who think they’re woman don’t at least get a “trial period” on testosterone to see if all they needed was to feel like a real man for once. I can’t imagine it making too much damage in the body either, at least compared to the other shit these troons are taking. Like, the only real problem I see with this is that they would be absolutely furious at a doctor even suggesting this.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Faye Kane went on such a trial period and it fucked her up even more

 

[Nykysnottrans]

This video got a lot of comments:

I would encourage you guys to read all the comments under this video (from both rightwingers and progressives who can't stand ContraPoints), it is like a soothing balm in the midst of this ContraMania we are seeing in the mainstream media.

A couple of people in the comments remember Nykytyne2:

How many times do I have to point out that thousands of Youtubers knew him as Nykytyne2 and are still on Youtube saying so? Being trans does not give you the right to purge history and demand that people forget. You have no control over other people's memories. Fuck off with this Orwellian fascist censorship.

Nora Ekard & Ronald Raygun, if you guys ever see this: if you watched the Blogtv Livestreams, you know about the trannie porn and Nyk reading lesbo smut. I know everyone but Dick Coughlan is too embarassed to mention what they actually saw Nyk do on those Livestreams but come on you guys, I know a hundred of you fuckers were there every time and and saw that shit. You know what Nyk did, so stop talking about how he used to play such nice jazz piano and talk about the what he actually did on Blogtv. The signs of a serious trannie porn addiction and a fetishistic obsession with lesbians were already there. Nyk is a narcissistic exhibitionist who trooned out so he could be an exhibitionist 24/7.

 

[whatintheheck]

So regardless of how people on this thread feel about transgender issues in general, the relevant question is: is Natalie sincere with her status as a transwoman, or is it instead (as frequently posited here) a case of Nyk just riding the so-called ‘trans-trend’?

There’s no doubt that there’s been an increase in transgender diagnosis and treatment in recent years, but this is probably mostly because of an increase in the general understanding and attention given to the issue. A cynical view is that the medical and pharmaceutical establishments are cashing in, and given the high price of the various surgeries and hormonal treatments for gender dysphoria, perhaps there’s something to this.

But I really don’t think most people who are deliberately seeking out treatment are doing so just for “fun” or following a trend; transitioning is a painful, costly, and often embarrassing process that is still largely stigmatized in our culture. Yes, there are perverts out there, but overt autogynephiliacs aside, why does there seem to be so much doubt about the purity of intention for a lot of transfolk?

As specific examples, there’s a sense that certain troons, e.g. Contrapoints and J. Yaniv, aren’t being completely “sincere” in their motivation to transition. Is it simply due to the perceived element of perversion/paraphilia with these types of people? Isn’t it enough that they’re undergoing treatment to justify their identity as transwomen, regardless of their sexual fixations?

One of the most prolific posters on this thread has a handle literally saying “Nyk is not trans”, and frequently there are posts questioning the validity of Nyk’s intentions with transitioning. To be honest, I guess I just don’t completely get it. I agree that there’s a jarring dissonance when one compares the Nyk of 3 years ago with the Natalie of now, but people do change after all. Maybe all of the awkwardness and drag-queen-ness of Nyk’s current videos is largely due to the supposed “second puberty”? I don’t know, it seems like we should at least give Nyk/Natalie the benefit of the doubt on this particular matter.

Regardless, that doesn’t mean that the Contrapoints videos aren’t still a load of meandering navel-gazing tripe and aesthetic garbage that pander to some of the dumbest people on the internet. One can be trans and still be an idiot.

 

[Odoacer]

I just find it funny that they had to get a troon to do political videos as no real women were up to the task

When did they start identifying as female, last i checked in they were being referred to as a he?

 

[whatintheheck]

When did they start identifying as female, last i checked in they were being referred to as a he?

Rated late since Nyk has identified as Natalie for quite awhile now.

Btw I looked up who “Faye Kane” was based on a previous comment on this thread. Wow is all I can say — that’s the sort of lolcow actually worth commenting on.

Nyk just barely meets the criteria for lolcow given that that she’s an eccentric Internet personality who posts content semi-regularly, but in comparison to some of the people documented on the farms, she’s actually quite boring and her content is pedantic and repetitive.

 

[ZulwayGodOfMercy]

So regardless of how people on this thread feel about transgender issues in general, the relevant question is: is Natalie sincere with her status as a transwoman, or is it instead (as frequently posited here) a case of Nyk just riding the so-called ‘trans-trend’?

There’s no doubt that there’s been an increase in transgender diagnosis and treatment in recent years, but this is probably mostly because of an increase in the general understanding and attention given to the issue. A cynical view is that the medical and pharmaceutical establishments are cashing in, and given the high price of the various surgeries and hormonal treatments for gender dysphoria, perhaps there’s something to this.

But I really don’t think most people who are deliberately seeking out treatment are doing so just for “fun” or following a trend; transitioning is a painful, costly, and often embarrassing process that is still largely stigmatized in our culture. Yes, there are perverts out there, but overt autogynephiliacs aside, why does there seem to be so much doubt about the purity of intention for a lot of transfolk?

As specific examples, there’s a sense that certain troons, e.g. Contrapoints and J. Yaniv, aren’t being completely “sincere” in their motivation to transition. Is it simply due to the perceived element of perversion/paraphilia with these types of people? Isn’t it enough that they’re undergoing treatment to justify their identity as transwomen, regardless of their sexual fixations?

One of the most prolific posters on this thread has a handle literally saying “Nyk is not trans”, and frequently there are posts questioning the validity of Nyk’s intentions with transitioning. To be honest, I guess I just don’t completely get it. I agree that there’s a jarring dissonance when one compares the Nyk of 3 years ago with the Natalie of now, but people do change after all. Maybe all of the awkwardness and drag-queen-ness of Nyk’s current videos is largely due to the supposed “second puberty”? I don’t know, it seems like we should at least give Nyk/Natalie the benefit of the doubt on this particular matter.

Regardless, that doesn’t mean that the Contrapoints videos aren’t still a load of meandering navel-gazing tripe and aesthetic garbage that pander to some of the dumbest people on the internet. One can be trans and still be an idiot.

It's painfully apparent that Contrapoints got her notoriety in her stand against the Youtube's Far-Right and her advocacy for trans rights in tandem. All of the journal articles appraise her just for that. The catch is that her popularity seems to be reaching its plateau, so her desire to enter cinematography whilst consolidating a patreon-based fan-base attached to her videos' light pornography aesthetics makes perfect sense. Besides, repeating the same trite over and over and over again exhausts anyone's soul. I don't think her actual self-identification is of any significance; she's a political pundit all too reliant on the para-social nature of celebrities to convey a particular POV. Because she hardly qualifies as a lolcow, it's kinda obvious that her politics are what had driven the thread's original conception; that & the RedLetterMedia-inspired eccentricity of her content. Nykys' is the one who made an elephant out of a fleeting flea: Meritorious in dispelling an image Natalie tried to re-brand herself as by erasing her past, but lacking in providing something that'd make Con a lolcow laughingstock. (Tho Nykysnottrans does a fine job in becoming a lolcow (her?)self.)

Lol about Trans-doubt. This site's community's majority is emphatically anti-trans and any other form of the human conditioning deviating from the blank slate, & not even that is safe from their derision! Sort of useful for catching potential rapists/pedophiles/criminals, genuinely fun in contemplating the misery of others and all too useless for engaging in critical thought (most of the time.) I would guess that ya landed on here because you wanted a forum verily lenient on differing social opinions. Sorry friend, no such place exists.

 

[Freya]

Rated late since Nyk has identified as Natalie for quite awhile now.

Btw I looked up who “Faye Kane” was based on a previous comment on this thread. Wow is all I can say — that’s the sort of lolcow actually worth commenting on.

Nyk just barely meets the criteria for lolcow given that that she’s an eccentric Internet personality who posts content semi-regularly, but in comparison to some of the people documented on the farms, she’s actually quite boring and her content is pedantic and repetitive.

maybe we're getting too serious here, but I think it's a very good thing this thread exists lolcow or not.
Nyk is a fraud and should be exposed, along with his cult.

Lol about Trans-doubt. This site's community's majority is emphatically anti-trans and any other form of the human conditioning deviating from the blank slate, & not even that is safe from their derision! Sort of useful for catching potential rapists/pedophiles/criminals, genuinely fun in contemplating the misery of others and all too useless for engaging in critical thought (most of the time.) I would guess that ya landed on here because you wanted a forum verily lenient on differing social opinions. Sorry friend, no such a place exists.

KF can be considered a counter-culture in a way. We're the new free speech radicals.

When the most powerful govt in human history is pushing tranny shit across the world and the powers that be are banning and in some cases, ARRESTING people for questioning the narrative, of course you will see opposition to that on here.

 

[Nykytyne3]

there’s a sense that certain troons, e.g. Contrapoints and J. Yaniv, aren’t being completely “sincere” in their motivation to transition.

Those who think Nick and these other autogynephilic types are insincere/faking it for attention and/or money are just plain wrong. They're just wrong. As a reformed troon with a similar educational background and personality type as Nick, I can confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nick and these other autistic troons are sincere in their delusions. It is likely that Nick is having a crisis now, starting to realize the horror of what he's done to himself and others, and is just really really afraid and confused about what to do next.

Also, see pic for evidence of the true horror of what's going on.View attachment ea36a60.jpg

 

[whatintheheck]

Those who think Nick and these other autogynephilic types are insincere/faking it for attention and/or money are just plain wrong. They're just wrong. As a reformed troon with a similar educational background and personality type as Nick, I can confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nick and these other autistic troons are sincere in their delusions. It is likely that Nick is having a crisis now, starting to realize the horror of what he's done to himself and others, and is just really really afraid and confused about what to do next.

Also, see pic for evidence of the true horror of what's going on.View attachment 912692

So would you agree there’s a relevant difference between the HSTS types and the autogynephiles (or at least that’s what it looks like they are) on 4chan? Both groups may be ultimately sincere in their desire to transition, but how much of it is driven out of legit medical dysphoria and how much of it is driven from a just straight up paraphilic sexual fixation/“perversion”? (although everyone may have their kinks and it’s all relative to some extent, I think most normies would agree that the sort of behavior depicted by troons and pre-troons on the chan boards qualifies as perverted — even without necessarily considering the transgender aspect of it all).

Also, a hearty lol at the robots who think being a girl somehow makes life easy mode. Especially if they think becoming a misshapen uncanny-valley transgirl would grant them an easier life because of their mistaken beliefs about sex and gender and female existence. It’s just pure delusion, and demonstrates that these people lack an empathetic understanding of other people’s lives — and are also clearly young and ignorant.

It actually kind of reminds me of a different form of the online extremism present in the alt-right /pol/ types, where instead of raging against immigrants or minorities or the jews, the robots are blaming their incel status on not being a ‘cute smol grill’ — and it’s the *truly* delusional who go overboard with their delusions, whether it be via a supreme gentleman Elliott Roger-esque violent sperg-outs, or /lgbt/ troon full-blown self-mutilation.

I mean to some extent, who’s to say what people feel on the inside and whether or not they’re legitimately “sincere” with their supposed dysphoria — but those who pursue transitioning because of an addiction to twisted pornography or a mistaken belief that it’s just their gender identity that’s making them incelibate, lonely and/or miserable — they strike me as being hugely mistaken, and likely haven’t yet exhausted more reasonable approaches and options towards fixing their particular dilemmas.

I guess what I’m ultimately getting at is that while on some level I know that there are legit transsexuals out there who deserve respect and understanding, the culture of kiwi farms seems to be correct in pointing out that there’s also some number of ‘troons’ and ‘transtrenders’ — people who are likely doing it for all the wrong reasons, and many who may come to regret it down the line once they’ve come to a more sober and realistic expectation of their lives and understanding of themselves.

Western liberal democracies are all about personal freedom, and rightly or wrongly, people are able to do to their bodies what they want within reason. But maybe they should also reasonably expect some push back when it involves ignoring existing societal divisions based on gender and invading female spaces. Maybe our entire standards of education don’t need to be overhauled for the less than 1% of 1% of society who feel gender dysphoria. Maybe it’s the exception that proves the rule of binary gender division.

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[Freya]

Those who think Nick and these other autogynephilic types are insincere/faking it for attention and/or money are just plain wrong. They're just wrong. As a reformed troon with a similar educational background and personality type as Nick, I can confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nick and these other autistic troons are sincere in their delusions. It is likely that Nick is having a crisis now, starting to realize the horror of what he's done to himself and others, and is just really really afraid and confused about what to do next.

Also, see pic for evidence of the true horror of what's going on.View attachment 912692

Nick isn't autistic. He never had trouble getting girlfriends and as was seen in videos from his atheism days, he was quite comfortable around them, including prancing around in a dress and demanding they wait on him.

Somebody who has spent a year doing nothing but making videos about themselves doesn't strike me as somebody having an "inner crisis" or whatever.

He's just a homosexual narcissist.

The people in your screenshot are on another level of sick fuck than Nick.

 

[docuseal]

He "keeps it light" because he's a wahmen now, silly. Women can't be expected to read heavy philosophical tomes.
They can't even open a beer can without male help!

A cult-member is slowly beginning to see right through the bullshit:

He's not dumbing himself down, he is a bimbo. Trooning out is just an excuse to act stupid in the name of "being a woman".

And here comes the evitable denial: "Oh no, she couldn't possibly be actually really stupid. No, it has to be an ironic pose."

bimbofication fetish is near universal among AGPs but mostly unknown to non trans people (except those of us into internet disaster tourism). he's getting bolder and bolder because he gets off on making the audience watch his "transformation". no doubt he gets special pleasure knowing how many liberal, feminist women are forcing themselves to laugh along, or reassuring themselves its ironic and they don't get the joke.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

no doubt he gets special pleasure knowing how many liberal, feminist women are forcing themselves to laugh along

Since you brought it up, let me give you an example of such a woman:

This stupid podcast host Iona Italia did a recent interview with Claire Graham, an intersex woman fighting the SJW troon cult in the UK. When Claire Graham brings up the sheer absurdity of the concept of "a woman who produices sperm", Iona Italia doesn't understand that Claire brought this up as an example of absurdity and proceeds to answer Claire in earnest, bringing Nyk up as an example of such a "woman" while claiming that Nyk still produces semen because he's still pre-op (can't post the link itself because the forum does not accept Soundcloud deeplinks for some reason, you can listen to that specific part of the podcast on Soundcloud itself.) I would assume Claire starting to get sick and tired of Nyk being brought up in every fucking interview she does. The fact is that Nyk has been on HRT for almost 2 years now so it's unlikely he still produces semen and if he does it's not viable. Not that this matters because a castrated man is still a man.

Iona Italia also refers to Nyk's FFS as "a miracle", and refers to Nyk's nerve-damaged emotionless face as "an absolutely classically gorgeous woman's face" . Iona Italia clearly doesn't have a clue what she's on about. I guess she's never seen any other trannie FFS videos on Youtube because there are trannies with far more impressive facejobs than Nyk. I can tell from this podcast segment alone that Iona's just a ContraPoints fangirl who did absolutely no prior research at all before interviewing Claire, only watched a couple of ContraPoints videos and now assumes she knows anything at all. Iona Italia is the perfect example of how Nyk is misinforming the gullible and the perfect example of the kind of woman you were referring to there.

 

[OttoWest]

There’s no doubt that there’s been an increase in transgender diagnosis and treatment in recent years, but this is probably mostly because of an increase in the general understanding and attention given to the issue.

What changed was the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria, and the declassification of the latter as a mental illness. Such a fundamental reconfiguration is going to drastically change the number of people affected as well as the medical and psychiatric communities response to these changes. This took a somewhat rare disorder out of the kiddie pool and into an Olympic swimming venue.

 

[Jeremiad]

So regardless of how people on this thread feel about transgender issues in general, the relevant question is: is Natalie sincere with her status as a transwoman, or is it instead (as frequently posited here) a case of Nyk just riding the so-called ‘trans-trend’?

There’s no doubt that there’s been an increase in transgender diagnosis and treatment in recent years, but this is probably mostly because of an increase in the general understanding and attention given to the issue. A cynical view is that the medical and pharmaceutical establishments are cashing in, and given the high price of the various surgeries and hormonal treatments for gender dysphoria, perhaps there’s something to this.

But I really don’t think most people who are deliberately seeking out treatment are doing so just for “fun” or following a trend; transitioning is a painful, costly, and often embarrassing process that is still largely stigmatized in our culture. Yes, there are perverts out there, but overt autogynephiliacs aside, why does there seem to be so much doubt about the purity of intention for a lot of transfolk?

I think you are starting from the wrong premise. All of this is just inane because the fact is that the only thing authentic for Nick is his hedonistic and nihilistic narcissism. His "politics" are paper thin and the vast majority of his videos very transparently relate some way to his own identity and sense of self-importance. His "identity" consists of no more than this: he wants to be young, beautiful, and desirable forever. Since this is a paradox in a universe where one of the only constants is entropy, his urge reflects itself in a drive towards his own annihilation. His trooning out is just an aspect of this.

Nothing for Nick has any meaning as a thing in itself. A given thing only has meaning to him in so far as it serves as a prop for his own self-absorption.

You can see this in his "politics" as well, and it's not incidentally something reflected in a fairly substantial portion of the left today. He doesn't propose any kind of vision or program for a new or different society. He just rails against things as being inadequate, or needing to be destroyed. Unlike other leftists as, say, Vladimir Lenin for whom the main question was, "What is to be done", which he wrote dozens of volumes on; neither Nick nor any of the breadtubers have anything concrete to offer(irrespective of whether it is horrific or good). Partially this is because they are partnered with big social media corporations whose money and support they need to stay afloat: if they proposed any kind of politics publically that was acceptable to big corporations, then they'd be revealing themselves as frauds to their followers; but as I said, it's also reflective of a deeper psychological reality that these people are vapid and nihilistic airheads.

Freud mostly talked about a lot of psuedo-scientific bunk, but you have to wonder if he was on to something at times. Nick's nature brings to mind his theory of "death drive". This was later expanded by Jacques Lacan and he considered it to be at the core of narcissism and suicidal tendencies. Seeing someone like Nick, it's not hard to see why.

 

[whatintheheck]

I think you are starting from the wrong premise. All of this is just inane because the fact is that the only thing authentic for Nick is his hedonistic and nihilistic narcissism. His "politics" are paper thin and the vast majority of his videos very transparently relate some way to his own identity and sense of self-importance. His "identity" consists of no more than this: he wants to be young, beautiful, and desirable forever. Since this is a paradox in a universe where one of the only constants is entropy, his urge reflects itself in a drive towards his own annihilation. His trooning out is just an aspect of this.

That all seems plausible. By the way, in regards to hedonistic nihilism, there's often been frequent reference to Nyk's drug use in this thread, but is this just assumed or is there any actual evidence that she's actual using hard drugs? (I don't really consider occasional alcohol or cannabis use that big of a deal). I know from a gay friend that the gay scene on Grindr (which was prominently featured in the latest Contrapoints video) in most major US cities is full of guys trying to set up meetups where they do methamphetamine and fuck each other all night (hence the 57% rate of HIV in certain tranny populations), but that'd just be an assumption for Natalie to be partaking in this. Is there actually some video of Nyk rolling on ecstasy or snorting coke? Certainly an addiction to harder drugs would fit the expected narrative of narcissistic self-destruction.

Nothing for Nick has any meaning as a thing in itself. A given thing only has meaning to him in so far as it serves as a prop for his own self-absorption.

You can see this in his "politics" as well, and it's not incidentally something reflected in a fairly substantial portion of the left today. He doesn't propose any kind of vision or program for a new or different society. He just rails against things as being inadequate, or needing to be destroyed. Unlike other leftists as, say, Vladimir Lenin for whom the main question was, "What is to be done", which he wrote dozens of volumes on; neither Nick nor any of the breadtubers have anything concrete to offer(irrespective of whether it is horrific or good). Partially this is because they are partnered with big social media corporations whose money and support they need to stay afloat: if they proposed any kind of politics publically that was acceptable to big corporations, then they'd be revealing themselves as frauds to their followers; but as I said, it's also reflective of a deeper psychological reality that these people are vapid and nihilistic airheads.

Yep, I definitely noticed that there's pretty much nothing but an airing of grievances being expressed by most Left-leaning youtubers. There's no actual proposal ever being suggested to remedy the various complaints they're ranting about. In the "Men" video, Nyk waxes poetic about the issues men as a social class face, but ultimately offers no possible solutions or alternative suggestions in the videos entire nearly 30 minute run time -- although she does make a joke towards the end about "giving up as a man and transitioning into a woman". You'd think someone who spent extended time in a graduate philosophy program could at least come up with some sort of original ideas? Instead, the video is pretty much just a vanity project for Nyk to strut around in lingerie and negligees to look "sexy" () and get asspats from his delusional sycophantic followers.

Freud mostly talked about a lot of psuedo-scientific bunk, but you have to wonder if he was on to something at times. Nick's nature brings to mind his theory of "death drive". This was later expanded by Jacques Lacan and he considered it to be at the core of narcissism and suicidal tendencies. Seeing someone like Nick, it's not hard to see why.

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Now this is something interesting to ponder. While I also agree with the generally accepted current sentiment that a lot of Freud's ideas were largely disproven, this provides an interesting way of framing the recurrent thoughts of patients with PTSD and those suffering from various self-destructive disorders. I found some more statements from Lacan re: the death drive:

In Lacan's first remarks on the death drive, in 1938, he describes it as a nostalgia for a lost harmony, a desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast, the loss of which is marked on the psyche in the weaning complex.
In 1946 he links the death drive to the suicidal tendency of narcissism.[3].

By linking the death drive with the preoedipal phase and with narcissism, these early remarks would place the death drive in what Lacan later comes to call the imaginary order.

However, when Lacan begins to develop his concept of the three orders of imaginary, symbolic and real, in the 1950s, he does not situate the death drive in the imaginary but in the symbolic.

This shift also marks a difference with Freud, for whom the death drive was closely bound up with biology, representing the fundamental tendency of every living thing to return to an inorganic state.

By situating the death drive firmly in the symbolic, Lacan articulates it with culture rather than nature; he states that the death drive"is not a question of biology,"[5], and must be distinguished from the biological instinct to return to the inanimate.[6]

Another difference between Lacan's concept of the death drive and Freud's emerges in 1964.

Freud opposed the death drive to the sexual drives, but now Lacan argues that the death drive is not a separate drive, but is in fact an aspect of every drive.

"The distinction between the life drive and the death drive is - true in as much as it manifests two aspects of the drive."[7]
Hence Lacan writes that "every drive is virtually a death drive" because:

1. every drive pursues its own extinction,
2. every drive involves the subject in repetition, and
3. every drive is an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of excess jouissance where enjoyment is experienced as suffering.

Lacan makes an important distinction between jouissance and plaisir (pleasure). Pleasure obeys the law of homeostasis that Freudevokes in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, whereby, through discharge, the psyche seeks the lowest possible level of tension. The pleasure principle thus functions as a limit imposed on enjoyment; it commands the subject to "enjoy as little as possible." Jouissance transgresses this law and, in that respect, it is beyond the pleasure principle.

The symbolic prohibition of enjoyment in the Oedipus complex (the incest taboo) is thus, paradoxically, the prohibition of something which is already impossible; its function is therefore to sustain the neurotic illusion that enjoyment would be attainable if it were not forbidden. The very prohibition creates the desire to transgress it, and jouissance is therefore fundamentally transgressive.[1]

Now I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but I do have a layman's interest in philosophy and psychology and in particular have followed fairly closely the work of the contemporary philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who is a close adherent to Lacan's theories and has made numerous statements re: the idea of "excess jouissance". (mostly though I like Zizek's hot takes on politics and culture, as well as his frequent commentary where he uses Hollywood films to demonstrate various psychological concepts). A lot of it is kinda heady philosophy/psychology jargon, but here's an interesting link to more discussion on the matter: Jouissance

If I were to make a feeble attempt to connect these ideas to the subject of Nyk, I'd say that there's some sort of link between his suicidal narcissism and the desire for excess jouissance through transgression as achieved via publicly trooning out.