Jimmy the Giant
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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That was the best intro ever. Amazing. Thank you very much for having me. The political Andy Dufresne. Yes. Yeah, God, I saw that poll the other day. What is that age bracket? 13 to 27. That's more worrying. I thought it was like zero to like 15 or something.
You're building these people. They're going to say that's part of the conspiracy.
Yeah, that's worried me more because when I first read that, I was like, ah, it's just really young people. Up to 27. That's kind of fucking crazy. Well, I swear, sorry.
Yeah, I've been deep in it. But I like grew up... you know, video gaming and watching YouTube. So I was like, I've always, I followed YouTube from its kind of 2008. Yeah. I think it was started in 2005, 2006. So I've seen the whole industry change. Yeah. And like how it went from just guys in their bedroom making stupid videos to now it's like what it is now, which is, it's wild.
But yeah, it's sort of around 2016, the kind of political side started popping. Before then, it was always like the Young Turks. Maybe you'd see an odd Alex Jones video. But it was so interesting. I said this in that Alt-Right video. It was like, Back then, I wouldn't have even really been able to tell you what right and left was. Yeah.
You were just being fed like stories and like, you know, who did 9-11 and all this sort of stuff. And it was like very different to now. Now it's very much categories and there's two camps. I mean, it's just totally my... How old are you?
yeah I would say so I've sort of become a lefty as the left have like really fucked up and failed and I'm really optimistic you know how like trends happen where you have like the hipsters will find something or like the nerdy kids will find something then the hipsters will get on it then the popular kids get on it and then by that point the sort of
the nerds and the hipsters stop engaging with it. And I sort of feel similar-ish about right-wing politics. In the beginning, it was like interesting and different because it was counter what you were being told in school and stuff. And then now it's so mainstream.
I think those people originally, the natural desire to be a little bit contrarian or just sort of explore different viewpoints, they've now sort of been self-reflective. So I think there is a percentage of people that were trapped in that kind of pipeline who have come out of it or are starting to come out of it. So I'm a bit more optimistic than a lot of people are.
I would say I was very much like curious to find out about these topics and stuff. And it was never coming from like a place of hate or anything like that. It was just, I'm being told that, oh, the reason the gender pay gap doesn't exist is because of these facts and figures. It's not because women suck or something like that. And the mood and the vibe has definitely changed now.
Like when you see like Andrew Tate, it's because women suck. And so it's like... I think the people who do have some intellectual curiosity, they will now be seeing that this is kind of bullshit. And they might start like what I had with Ukraine, which was like where I was seeing how the right were talking about Ukraine. It made me go, well, hang on a second. I know they're full of shit on this.
So then it made me question it.
And I was like, because I had, I don't know, like, yeah, a lot of people go, he got married and then obviously became a lefty. He met a woman. Met a woman who became a lefty. I was like, yeah. But it was sort of like, it wasn't in the way that people would perceive that, that she was some lefty and such.
It was just because it was a topic that showed me a different angle than what the sphere of content was telling me about. So like, I think, I don't know if people need like an individual topic where they see that they're chatting shit on.
Because a lot of it is just like they build a whole like... a Jenga tower of like bullshit and like it sort of loosely stays together but if you pull out a few pieces then it falls down and that was it Ukraine was one of those pieces where I was like they're just chatting complete shit about Ukraine yeah so then what else are they chatting shit about yeah exactly and then it makes you question
everything it's like the gender pay gap then it's like you know crime and like this whole they they're obsessed with culture they think like everything comes down to individuals making bad decisions they never talk about systems or like structures that cause bad outcomes in society never talk about that it's always are these people are just bad people and they've just decided to be bad because cardi b is telling them to shake their ass or something yeah
what felt counter-cultural to you about the right and the sort of political right yeah yeah there was that feeling because I remember they said it's so cringe now but they were like conservatism is the new punk and it's like very cringe there was an era where it was just you were the different guy if you're a right wing and you're in a group of people your age you're the one that when they start complaining about I don't know or they start talking good about Jeremy Corbyn you're like well actually yeah right nationalisation is inefficient and you know blah blah blah
Oh, God. To anyone who went to a party with me, I'm so sorry.
I just think I've always liked new ideas. And that's like something as I've got older, I've realized is it's not a problem. It's just part of my personality that I'm attracted to ideas that contradict what I think. But when I was younger, I put trust into that where I was like, that must mean it's correct. There's a thing, it's called like the Galileo's Gambit.
I think because Galileo, he obviously thought the world was circle. I think if my history is not fucked up. But he thought the world was circle whilst everyone thought it was flat and he was right and everyone was wrong and they all ridiculed him.
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