Tim Pool Mental Gymnastics

[Leo Gura]

A stunning level of right-wing mental gymnastics.

 

[SwiftQuill]

Sam Seder = left-wing mental gymnastics.

Also bonus points for strawmanning Konstantin and Francis by calling them "right wing conservatives".

Anyone who is remotely critical of anything from the left = right wing alt right far right conservative racist sexist bigot.

[carterfelder]

How so?

[SwiftQuill]

Actualized.org users attacking right wing grifters:

[Extreme Z7]

Insane Mastery: Gymnastics. . . of the Mind. 

[Joshe]

Tim is such a retard. His intellectual posturing is pathetically shallow and see-through. These days, if you have a high Need for Cognition, a decent working memory, and are an extrovert, you’re well-suited to become a right wing propagandist. Lol. I never really liked TMR’s style, but at least someone holds a mirror up so that this foolishness might catch a glimpse of itself. 7th generational warfare right there. 

Edited May 16 by Joshe

[trenton]

So basically,

Tim Pool is using a manipulation tactic like gish galloping. He is rambling on about many different sources so he can sound intelligent, but in reality he is hoping that you just get lost in the word maze and just believe him because he sounds like he knows what he is talking about.

If you listen to him he sounds like Ben Shapiro in this clip.

[Emerald]

Just screwing around with the semantics of what war means to justify the suspension of Habeas Corpus and undermining the rights granted in the Constitution.

I wonder if he believes what he's saying or if he knows he's bullshitting.

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Emerald said:

I wonder if he believes what he's saying or if he knows he's bullshitting.

He's been talking about civil war for years.

People like him are horny for a war against wokes. It gives him reason to wake up in the morning.

Edited May 17 by Leo Gura

[The Crocodile]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

He's been talking about civil war for years.

People like him are horny for a war against wokes. It gives him reason to wake up in the morning.

Yeah, but he does know he would probably die, right?

It's interesting to look through this and see how many Confederate generals were killed or wounded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_generals_(Confederate)

[Joshe]

2 hours ago, The Crocodile said:

Yeah, but he does know he would probably die, right?

This is a guy who lives in a multi-million dollar high-security compound. He probably has rooms full of weapons, underground bunkers, and hidden passageways. He’s wishing shit would pop off so he can play out his survival fantasy. He probably has plans for how to funnel woke mobs to specific locations around his perimeter where he can be most effective at killing them. Probably has a Gatlin gun, a 50 caliber sniper rifle , a flame thrower, grenade launcher, and bazooka. Might even have installed a hidden moat with alligators and burn pits. Lol.

At least 75% of this is true. And people wonder why we’re critical of poor Tim who is just stating a different perspective. When forming perspectives, one can allow the perspective to be formed by truth, where one is careful and respects reason, impartiality, and intellectual honesty, setting one’s preferences aside, or one can say “fuck no, I’m taking the helm because I want reality to serve my whims.”. 

Tim is a larper, blending fantasy with ideological messaging. His epistemic conduct is that of a clown.

Whoever treats belief-formation this casually, with an agenda to spread the beliefs, deserves to be mocked and ridiculed, not for the content of their messaging, but for their epistemic misconduct. 

Edited May 17 by Joshe

[PurpleTree]

Tim Pool the Russian mule.

Moscow asshat and asset.

A man and a beenie.

next.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

On 16/05/2025 at 5:17 PM, Leo Gura said:

A stunning level of right-wing mental gymnastics.

 

He is engaged in the same tatic that Jordan Peterson are. Second to the last video by Vlad Vexler. Peterson dont argue with people more inteligent than him ( i mean not true inteligence but manipulative inteligence) If someone with strong epistemic and solid knowing interview him, he would be more slow and carefull with his speaking. Devils clashing with devils is easy. I would like to see him clashing with God, and even a Angel ,that would be enogth. Bit of course  more inteligent people dont want even to deal with this Scorges 

[Emerald]

On 5/17/2025 at 0:13 AM, Leo Gura said:

He's been talking about civil war for years.

People like him are horny for a war against wokes. It gives him reason to wake up in the morning.

Fair enough. I know he's all about the idea that we're in a civil war.

But I'm wondering if he knows he's bullshitting about the president using this unofficial civil war that he perceives as a justification to take away rights.

[Leo Gura]

You do political punditry for long  enough and you start to believe your own spin. It's like affirmations on steroids + millions of dollars + audience capture + algorithm capture.

Edited Monday at 08:47 PM by Leo Gura

[Emerald]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

You do political punditry for long  enough and you start to believe your own spin. It's like affirmations on steroids + millions of dollars + audience capture + algorithm capture.

I suppose that's probably true. But I still tend to wonder with Tim Pool's rationale, what of it is deliberate dishonestly and what of it is just drinking one's own Koolaid.

You're probably right that it's more likely that he's drinking his own Koolaid.

[Leo Gura]

There's no need for dishonesty when one is self-deceived. That's the beauty of self-deception.

[Emerald]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

There's no need for dishonesty when one is self-deceived. That's the beauty of self-deception.

True