I like the hard-veer away from reality he takes even when saying what would, ostensibly, be the closest thing to reality he's said in years - the damage that devoting your life to attacking people you regard as sub-human causes. He claims all of this fucked up his life, and it definitely did whatever pathetic living he was doing beforehand no favours.
But he just can't see beyond his black and white thinking. To him, the TERFs are attacking innocent, blameless trans people, while he was studying mass-murderers who killed numerous times during GamerGate, two complete lies. He thinks the only difference between him and these women (and Glinner, and Singal) is that they are wrong for regarding their enemy as sub-human, while he was entirely right to do so.
The vast, vast majority of people who have a problem with troons don't regard them as sub-human monsters; they think of them as damaged and mentally ill, some as victims, most as incredibly solipsistic and deluded but few as completely lacking in humanity. They're shit people, but they're still people. Jake, however, still thinks he was 'studying' monsters in human form, people who deserve to be murdered in the street, he hates them that much.
It's like the slightest glimmer of self-awareness is immediately drowned in Jake's self-importance, pomposity, and unwavering conviction that he is always right about all things. It's fascinating how he can see the similarities, and yet still draw the entirely wrong conclusions. His projection is insane, because he is exactly the men that he hates so much, and yet seems to think that his LARPing as a beautiful lady instead makes him the exact opposite.
It's just ... you couldn't write someone so lacking in self-awareness, you'd get told the character was too unrealistic.
