All the Colin Moriarty stuff is really quite amusing, I expected something so different. The dude is such a milquetoast standard libertarian who either deliberately or not posts stupid jokes on twitter and from what I can tell has just increased his "controversial statement" count since the original joke that pissed everyone off just because he likes to rile people up then argue on twitter.
Listening to him on Joe Rogan he seems like a nice guy and way more humble than the perception I came in with from ERA/GAF, he's not a huge asshole like Sargon or pompus know it all lecturer type like that Canadian piece of shit Stefan Molyneux, he's engaging Joe and vice versa which is kinda weird because so many of these are usually Joe having to do that on his own. Although he doesn't seem to have the nutty SUDDEN EVERYTHING IS THIS HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CIRCLES IN THIS MOUNTAIN type interests of Joe.
Colin's Last Stand is such a nothing burger after watching a couple of them. It's got nice enough production for just one guy (?), he's not saying anything too crazy especially if you grant libertarianism as a sometimes acceptable view, his history interest seems to be that he's for the first time actively learning this in spades and sharing with us as he's learning more than anything. Maybe I haven't seen his hate machine videos, or the three I clicked around in were just boring ones I happened to pick, but these are so...I mean, a lot of it isn't even his opinion, he's just talking about historical events or reading things. There's a lot of similarities to Crash Course's explanatory design really, Colin's view is obviously more libertarian colored as are his chosen sources while Crash Course tries to stick to mainstream texts in their history/politics/etc. episodes as much as possible, and Crash Course has its whole thematic design and imagery which does a lot for it. Crash Course also has better writing, so is funnier. But I'm not sure that an acknowledged bias is actually harmful to content.
The main problem I have is the same problem I have with Crash Course, they confuse speaking quickly for delivering information faster. (I just put a random Crash Course video I pulled up on 0.75 speed and now I feel like they filmed it at this speed then sped it up. INVESTIGATE THAT THEORY JOE ROGAN.)
But I'm struggling to figure out why he's supposed to be such an unperson that he can't even be fucking mentioned on a forum lol.
He doesn't seem to be significantly less progressive/liberal/whatever on all the hot button ERA social issues than me and...okay, bad example, um...really bad example
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He's no Andrew Heaton, the one true modern libertarian god-king...but who is? Except Andrew Heaton, the one true modern libertarian god-king.
bonus for Demi in his friend Steve
Though his arguments made more sense and were far more convincing when he had a beard, also he was more interesting and I felt more trustworthy like most bearded talking images:
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