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[–] MotoAsh 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He sort of could've been if he stuck with his psudo-hippy crap. Then he started decrying science and vaccines and hanging out with rightoids. The left actually believes in science and doesn't like obnoxious charlatans like Peterson or Rogan, so his audience shifted.

[–] HonoraryMancunian 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've known an extreme hippy be antivax before, so maybe that was the route he took

[–] MotoAsh 17 points 1 year ago

More like was hoping to drag more vulnerable tacitly-left people to the right with him. He clearly decided to shift his rhetoric. There was no way in hell his audience was staying the same. He also shifted way too hard to make it subtle, so anyone with strong axioms was right out too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Many hippies I know are completely anti western medicine so being antivax is kind of a given for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I haven't followed his stuff since he found god

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's always the religious lot.... tssk.