- Joined
- Jan 8, 2020
Yes, this happens every time a thread gets featured. Here's a quick rundown.
Tim Pool is a NEET who happens to also be a workaholic. He went to Occupy Wall Street when he was working at Fusion and recorded footage of the protest using a drone, which was considered an innovation in journalism that drew attention to him. Then he went to Vice and started Vice News, before abandoning them when they lost their edge. He started recording himself reading the news and uploaded it to YouTube. He makes no effort in editing his videos, it is literally just him talking to a camera and until very recently he absolutely refused to play any clips so even if there was important context that could have been useful to the audience he only read reports of it rather than showing any footage. Despite this he somehow has gained a massive following and all his videos get between 100-200k views (he uploads 3 videos a day at least, Monday-Friday, and has a subscriber count of 1.18 million at this point).
What makes him entertaining is that he's a total narcissist, basically hapas Ethan Ralph at this point, and he likes to criticize ordinary people for not being willing to up-end their lives and move or quit jobs that are unethical or against their politics while he also has not left YouTube and self-censors on YouTube to avoid demonetization. Literally, he called the police "cowards" and "oathbreakers" during the pandemic because the police didn't resign in protest when they were asked to shutter businesses for failing to follow executive orders by state governors regarding social distancing and etc.
He also repeatedly calls himself a centrist despite having some ridiculously left and right positions.
His radical leftist positions:
Tim thinks of taxation as an "equalizer" and believes that the rich should be taxed not to try and fund any social programs but to simply reduce their wealth so there is less inequality between them and their workers.
Tim believes in systemic racism and uses redlining, which is a practice that no longer exists, as an example of that.
His radical right wing positions:
Tim thinks of Korea as a single nation, and not in the "akshually" kind of way. We know how Tim acts when he's getting you on a technicality, but when he stated South and North Korea were one nation it was like he was saying what day of the week it was. (Tim is half-Korean, never mentions his white father in any way, and was raised by a Korean grandmother that he has stated was racist. He grew up in Chicago so one can safely assume that his Korean grandmother is anti-black, not anti-white).
Tim stated in the same video "life begins at conception, there is no other way to define it" and also that he does not want women to be restricted from abortions during the first trimester because the government should not be involved in stopping medical procedures. Meanwhile, he thinks the government should be involved in stopping surgeries on trans youth. So he wants the government to stop kids from cutting their dicks off, but he doesn't want the government to stop their parents from murdering them. He acknowledges it's murder, he said that he believes life begins at conception. This is, literally, not an exaggeration the single most radical right-wing position I have ever heard and I have heard people say that we should voluntarily segregate blacks and whites. And he calls himself a centrist, saying that allowing abortion during the first trimester and then stopping after that is "what every reasonable Democrat was saying back in the 90s". Yes, but Democrats have never thought that the baby was alive then. That's their whole justification for abortion, they do not accept the fetus is a living being.
