Beardson did have the potential to be a sympathetic guy under circumstances especially some of the family related stuff but in the end he simply chose to be an asshole because he felt he could get away with it while being a facefag. He wanted to be a big name during GamerGate and it never happened, every e-celeb or political figure he tried to link up with didn't pan out until he met Nick who was young and naive enough to let that creep into his life. Not saying Nick wouldn't be gay or egotistical but it was def Beardson's influence that pushed Nick onto the much weirder side of things, because the fat bearded hobbit had a million hang-ups especially when it came to women and others who were successful. I think in the end there's simply an archetype that exists to be this narcissistic lolcow that will always fuck up and carry along for our amusement. Even if they find a modicum of success they will never be able to escape their nature and will fuck it up eventually and cause blowout after blowout for everyone to see.
Thanks Gordon. Is there a primer on the 2017 era of Beardson Meets Fuentes? I know that Beardson was doing The Weekly Sweat with that Sean character (talked about grooming 17 year olds at traditional Catholic chapels, running off with the girls, telling the fathers to get fucked.) IIRC the Sean fellow showed an FBI agent's card on a stream once.
That era is foggy to me. Fuentes was a Cville participant and despite his lying to Louis and Elijah Schaffer, Nipples was neck deep in the whole identitarian/hard Right sort of thing. I think it was early 2018 (maybe late 2017) when Fuentes did IBS and gave his whole plan, which was "Look, I am going to cloak all this stuff in irony and American Flags and I will be the optical leader who doesn't fuck up like Spencer did."
You're adding a new wrinkle to this story in that Beardson was seeking out some other eceleb faggot to attach himself to. For what it's work, PPP half seriously suggested back in Dec 2021 that Beardson had become the puppet master of AF (perhaps using blackmail that is allegedly available.)
Hypothetical question: Why can't Beardson just quietly get a job at a store somewhere, maybe take some ASE classes, and just go dark? Does it really just come down to him being a clout chasing gnome? Or is there some kind of cross blackmail situation? RPG suggested that his wife has a daughter from a previous relationship (something I find a little hard to believe, though I am aware of whole "I took my daughter shooting" clip.)
My favorite thing about these threads is all the people who unironically consume content from the "dissident right" trying really hard to pretend not every single person involved in this sphere on the internet is a fucked up manchild. There is this unspoken fantasy of hundreds of thousands of well read, emotionally healthy, and physically fit people out there paying attention to a sexually repressed catamite and his doughy lieutenants; just waiting for the marching orders to go out at LARP some kind of racial paradigm shift. Every time someone rises to prominence in these circles, it always turns out they deserve a thread here for unmitigated faggotry and we will inevitably read the grand-schizoid-narrative that Zionist Federal agents are carefully manipulating social media to engineer these cyclic rise and falls of edgy spergs who can't keep the spaghetti safely tucked away in their pleated trousers.
Don't forget the hot takes and careful analysis where people start speculating and wargaming out scenarios: "Man, if Beardson had just laughed X off , took a clear stance on the JQ, and consolidated his influence in these key areas, he'd have a clear path to victory" as if anyone whose politics are shaped by imageboard culture isn't already intellectually crippled and developmentally stunted.
It's like a retarded Sisyphus dragging giant black horse dildo up a mountain, then immediately pushing said dildo off a cliff where it tumbles down to the bottom. Before setting off for another trip back down, Sisyphus remarks, "Oy Vey! the JDF is at again lol " and the process repeats.
And yet here you are to lol at us for loling at the cows. With that said, your characterization of people in these threads is incorrect. Yes, some of us suggest he has some kind of handingly, which is provable in terms of Milo. I don't think anyone has suggested that Lil'Nipples is an Israeli asset. Indeed, to collect the real names, real bank account numbers, and real pictures of people at a conference (known to be "White Nationalist/far Right") to see a coked up skeleton scream "Mommy Michelle" and "YOBA" does seem like a cache of data that the FBI would just tap into. So, functionally, I will standby anyone suggesting that Lil'Nipples may well know that he is a honeypot, that the feds will eventually shut it down, and he will have to trade info for a more favorable sentence.
The Peter Thiel connection is more speculative, I will give you that. But to think it is schizo to suggest plutocrats like Thiel source lolcows to keep different factions on the political merry go round, I would have to strongly disagree. Look at how much mileage they have gotten out of Alex Jones.