I think the sort of person who calls JJ a "leftie" is maybe not really someone with a robust political consciousness. I'm a double JJ and Big Joel subscriber and over on his post I was rather shocked about where this conversation ended up going, especially as someone who never actually listened to Fuentes before and heard him in those clips just being openly extremely racist, and the idea that this other guy "didn't know" what Fuentes beliefs were was rather disengenous and made me doubt the reality of his "centrist" positions. edit: Oh and cause you asked if you should do stuff like this, I'm sort of just like, whatever if that is how you want to spend your time. I don't think it adds much to the world. (though, more talking to Big Joel, I Big Support that)
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PF Jung when someone says “I’m not racist, but…”: ‘Well that was a horrible thing to say. But at least they’re not racist!’
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I appreciate you having these conversations. Often people involved in fringe politics derive a great deal of confidence from the fact that no one debates them, thinking that their points are irrefutable, when in reality they are just too small for a lot of people to spend time on. So it's good for people to see that these ideas can't withstand scrutiny.
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I think you're too trusting and expect other people to be as genuine as you are in their pursuits. This guy is clearly a grifter and I wouldn't be surprised if he's just using you as a rock to climb on so his slop channel gets bigger. I wouldn't touch this guy with a mile long pole
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You should do a debate with Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities about the merits of Wikipedia.
2 months ago | 15
I’m glad you did it. I think it was a rough watch, this is probably the worst hill Paul has tried to die on so far - but that makes it all the more important for a moderate voice of reason like yours to be present. I think you do a good job bringing people with more extreme views than your own to a more sensible place, without coming off as forceful.
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I think that you essentially participated in an intervention to stop this guy from radicalizing himself, a great public service, but a painful watch, just as any intervention is, I suppose.
2 months ago | 9
Gotta be honest not always a fan but you did a pretty good job as a moderator in that debate
2 months ago | 5
I find it fascinating how JJ, the person with the sanest, fact-based, mainstream politics with normal people takes (I mean this positively) seems to be so drawn to the "freakazoid", very online politics of people like PF Jung or Jreg. I greatly appreciate it because it's very nice to have someone with enough of a factual lay of the land to know why freakazoid conspiratorial politics fails instead of it being a chronically online circlejerk
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More big Joel talks, less pf jung please! I think a JJ-pf jung hiatus might be in order That video was bizarre?!? Paul was completely incoherent.
2 months ago | 22
There may be no nice way to say this, but I think you ought to ghost this friend.
2 months ago | 4
You and Joel did a pretty good job. But PF Jung is… idk, beware the midwit, JJ
2 months ago | 12
Haven’t seen this one yet but I watch and enjoy all your conversations with Paul.
2 months ago | 0
Okay I made it 1/3 of the way through and cannot take any more of the PF guy. This is the first and hopefully last time I see or hear him. The problem Big Joel got into was always responding to PF asinine requests to explain simple concepts like Holocaust denial or dumb hypotheticals of whether or not a racist could be a good person. It was like an angry teenager arguing for just the sake of arguing instead of having any sort of good intentions for an intelligent discussion.
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J.J. McCullough
If you like, you can watch this rather strange... conversation about the awful political commentator Nick Fuentes between myself, PF Jung, and @BigJoel. Let me know your thoughts about even doing this.
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