Tim Pool is a known quality and a known quantity. He has always been center-to-left, and has never abandoned that position. He's never really pretended to be anything other than what he is. He has never "betrayed" anyone.
I still listen to him on occasion as a touchstone of how the normies feel, since his positions seem fairly close to that. I'll avoid the click-bait stuff which he puts out once in awhile, but generally he makes for a good summary, and acts as a check against the cultish bubble-bullshit that infects the left so hard.
exactly. Last thing I ever want is to become a cultist... a healthy ideology, like a healthy religion, requires that you constantly question it, to avoid the blind obedience to a person or idea that afflicts all too many in this world.
Tim Pool belongs to a rare endangered species, old-school Liberals. They should not be confused with todays Left-Wing Extremists. Liberals were Left-of-Center--they were "progressive" on many issues but they still respected the Constitution (or most of it): free speech, the right to privacy, due process. Ultimately, they still believed in American Exceptionalism.
There was a time when "Cold War Liberals" walked the earth. They started getting outnumbered by the Far Left after the Cold War ended, when there was no longer a check on the Leftward drift in the Democrat Party. (Or for that matter, in the Republican Party.)
In today's Democrat Party "Centrist" means Socialist-Authoritarian, Left-of-Center means Communist-totalitarian. That's pretty much it.
Tim Pool is a known quality and a known quantity. He has always been center-to-left, and has never abandoned that position. He's never really pretended to be anything other than what he is. He has never "betrayed" anyone.
I still listen to him on occasion as a touchstone of how the normies feel, since his positions seem fairly close to that. I'll avoid the click-bait stuff which he puts out once in awhile, but generally he makes for a good summary, and acts as a check against the cultish bubble-bullshit that infects the left so hard.
And as a check against the right.
exactly. Last thing I ever want is to become a cultist... a healthy ideology, like a healthy religion, requires that you constantly question it, to avoid the blind obedience to a person or idea that afflicts all too many in this world.
That's exactly why I listen to him, too.
Tim Pool belongs to a rare endangered species, old-school Liberals. They should not be confused with todays Left-Wing Extremists. Liberals were Left-of-Center--they were "progressive" on many issues but they still respected the Constitution (or most of it): free speech, the right to privacy, due process. Ultimately, they still believed in American Exceptionalism.
There was a time when "Cold War Liberals" walked the earth. They started getting outnumbered by the Far Left after the Cold War ended, when there was no longer a check on the Leftward drift in the Democrat Party. (Or for that matter, in the Republican Party.)
In today's Democrat Party "Centrist" means Socialist-Authoritarian, Left-of-Center means Communist-totalitarian. That's pretty much it.
Why? You are already here. You are already ahead of the news by a couple days.