I remember stumbling on some videos of him as I was being radicalized, he was talking about trans issues and generally having interesting, or at least thought-provoking things to say. I’m sure I learned stuff (and he was a brief part of my radicalization whether I want it or not), but not too long after, I started getting some pretty odd vibes. Couldn’t quite place what bothered me then because I just wasn’t educated on a lot of the western leftism shortcomings and knew way too little of colonial and imperial history and such, but some interventions were still eyebrow raising.
When he started (in my exposure to his content, no clue about how his positions evolved) really drilling into his disdain for religion, defense of “anti-white racism”, and spending way too long hating on other leftists I fully dropped out. I honestly can’t remember a single content creator where my falling out was so brutal especially without being exposed to any outside critique. I’m sure he’s still got some good points to make on some subjects, but there are voices that do it better and without all the weird reactionary takes.
I would generally recommend people to steer clear from those “debate bro” types. Most of us probably had a period of falling into the trap of viewing good rhetoric, aesthetic and entertainment value, as something more than it actually is, hell most of us still struggle with that today. There’s nothing wrong with entertainment in the sphere of “political” media, but you should stay critical of people that spend too long just beating of anyone to the left of them. Even the “tankies” I follow have very civilized and respectful conversations with anarchists, trostkyists or socdems because they realize that very few of them have nefarious intentions and it always makes for something way more interesting than namecalling and gotchas.
I don’t know about CP or horse cocks or whatever, honestly this seems like exactly the kind of braindead drama I try to steer away from, but personally that had nothing to do with what really rubbed me wrong about Vaush.
degen@midwest.social 3 months ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It wasn’t containing loli, it had generic hentai and some horse stuff. I was there and saw it, about 1000 hate-watchers immediately screamed “LOLI” and it stuck.
I think to be fair the artist was a known artist who had done loli, but people don’t necessarily save porn based on what other works the artist has made. It was pretty desperate, people REALLY need to hate people who have different opinions.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This.
That content is not my cup of tea, but at least it’s not real kids. Even if the “characters” are 18 to 1000 years old…
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ITT we have VDS
It was like one picture of drawn porn with a character that is canonically underage but didn’t look underage in the picture.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m always torn about this.
If you have those thoughts and act on it, it’s a crime and it’s awful. But if you don’t, why should we penalize you? Shouldn’t we encourage people with those thoughts not to act on it?
It’s a really dark topic, but I really wish we could properly discuss it. And if we consider how many people seem to have those thoughts, we should find a better way than to hunt them. Because to them it’s just a “damned if you do, danned if you don’t” and that’s probably gonna encourage more crimes.
Unfortunately considering how bipartisan all conversations are and how hard it is to discuss those topics, it’s gonna be awhile until we can really take a shot at improving our processes when it comes to that.
degen@midwest.social 3 months ago
Legality aside, insofar as it is philosophically debatable, gross and pedophilic is still gross and pedophilic.
If you know someone is thinking about murdering people around them, but holds off, would that make you feel any safer? I think the focus should be helping people not want that rather than appeasement.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes it would. If I knew someone is thinking about murder and someone else is doing the murder, and I could choose, I would definitely take the one thinking about murder.
Now it would be great if no one was thinking about murder in the first place but the world is complex, and because we are able to choose to some degree, let’s do that instead of saying “IDC both is bad to the same degree”.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anti abortion but pro school shootings. That’s another one of those hipocracy positions.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, that’s his remaining audience in a nutshell. It’s legit creepy.