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Jimmy the Giant

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162 total appearances

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

So then it made me question it.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

So then it made me question it.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Oh, God. To anyone who went to a party with me, I'm so sorry.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Oh, God. To anyone who went to a party with me, I'm so sorry.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

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.