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It was so frustrating at a time when I was trying to argue against Corbyn as someone who leans to the centre. It was hard to get taken seriously, because online people would assume I meant I was like Rubin. If he is going to hold such beliefs fine, but presenting himself as a centrist and a true liberal, when it was clear he wasn’t, and arguing against such would have his fans calling me a ‘regressive leftist’ was dishonest. He has guru tendencies in that his fans treat critique as a personal attack and respond with character judgements.
He was too dumb, boring and uncharismatic to climb to larger fame in the manner of Peterson, Brand or Neil Oliver. I remember him arguing against government intervention on environmental issues because we don’t need that; individuals can shame polluters into good behaviour by posting pictures on snapchat of pollution by big industry.
That’s the infuriating thing. He clearly isn’t an old school centrist, he is a conservative, and such pretending to be otherwise is dishonest and that grates. His opinions are poorly thought; the snapchat solution he presented was mind boggling in its idiocy from failing to understand how pictures cannot get an idea of pollution really (a lot of it is hidden, it says nothing of concentrations) and won’t stop businesses with bad practice. And his fans treated measured criticism of these stupid ideas as angry tantrum throwing of lefties who couldn’t take another opinion. No, I just think is ideas are dumb and harmful, but he’s welcome to his dumb ideas. The ‘very sensible’ people who treated critique of him and claims as him not being a liberal as some hard left smears are silent now he’s openly supporting Trump and DeSantis, making Russian apologism and anti-vaxx woo. On top of this he is so cringeworthy. Check out his stand up routine!