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Jimmy the Giant

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

And then you get a whole culture from it. And then it's interesting, that culture, they start wearing a certain type of hat and a certain type of like track suit and listen to a certain type of music. It's interesting. The right wing answer to that is that they're just people that are lazy and I don't know, work shy or whatever. And that's so boring and like uninteresting as a...

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

And then you get a whole culture from it. And then it's interesting, that culture, they start wearing a certain type of hat and a certain type of like track suit and listen to a certain type of music. It's interesting. The right wing answer to that is that they're just people that are lazy and I don't know, work shy or whatever. And that's so boring and like uninteresting as a...

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

counter-cultural by being left-wing because to be left-wing meant to be against the banking system that plunged us all into enlightenment that is what left-wing is and so like it was that's the big shift that happened so you have like your social left and right and then you have your economic left and right they don't actually have to marry up like clean but it's like it's that thing where I guess socially at least in media and at least like overtly we're quite left-wing as a country it might be shifting now I can feel it it's like shifting on certain issues but

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

counter-cultural by being left-wing because to be left-wing meant to be against the banking system that plunged us all into enlightenment that is what left-wing is and so like it was that's the big shift that happened so you have like your social left and right and then you have your economic left and right they don't actually have to marry up like clean but it's like it's that thing where I guess socially at least in media and at least like overtly we're quite left-wing as a country it might be shifting now I can feel it it's like shifting on certain issues but

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

In general, we're quite left-wing socially. We certainly moved in a more progressive direction.

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

In general, we're quite left-wing socially. We certainly moved in a more progressive direction.

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

And so a society can appear to be socially liberal, or at least in the media. When it comes to economics, which in my deep opinion is the driving force of everything, is we're so right wing. And it's like, you can't argue that. And so they have to push the conversation onto the culture issues. So this is their last bastion to sort of prey on people's, you know, like prejudices and stuff like that.

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

And so a society can appear to be socially liberal, or at least in the media. When it comes to economics, which in my deep opinion is the driving force of everything, is we're so right wing. And it's like, you can't argue that. And so they have to push the conversation onto the culture issues. So this is their last bastion to sort of prey on people's, you know, like prejudices and stuff like that.

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

That's all they got.

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

That's all they got.

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

I think young lads, they want to feel like our life progresses. So we want to feel that we put in hard work and we build something. And I think that is a pressure that's put on lads to make something of yourself, be something, move out of your hometown, go to the big city, do something. That's kind of a rhetoric that's sold to us a lot.

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

I think young lads, they want to feel like our life progresses. So we want to feel that we put in hard work and we build something. And I think that is a pressure that's put on lads to make something of yourself, be something, move out of your hometown, go to the big city, do something. That's kind of a rhetoric that's sold to us a lot.

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

If you have that mentality of like self-betterment, self-improvement, then you have to buy into like meritocracy. And if you buy into meritocracy, you kind of have to be right wing because it's like the only way to believe that there's a meritocracy in this society is by not looking into like the systemic things and critiques on capitalism.

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

If you have that mentality of like self-betterment, self-improvement, then you have to buy into like meritocracy. And if you buy into meritocracy, you kind of have to be right wing because it's like the only way to believe that there's a meritocracy in this society is by not looking into like the systemic things and critiques on capitalism.

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

So I think that's why it lures in men a lot because maybe we have this sort of insecurity. Like I think being a man, you do not want to feel powerless. Like you want to feel like you're not vulnerable. You're not a victim. You're not weak. You want to be powerful and in control.

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

So I think that's why it lures in men a lot because maybe we have this sort of insecurity. Like I think being a man, you do not want to feel powerless. Like you want to feel like you're not vulnerable. You're not a victim. You're not weak. You want to be powerful and in control.

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

And when the right wing talks about the left, they talk about like these people that have just flopped over in the road and they've just given up and everything sucks. I don't believe that is a true, accurate depiction of the left, but that's what they get told about it. I think dating plays into it. I think a lot of like young lads want to meet a girl. So they like...

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

And when the right wing talks about the left, they talk about like these people that have just flopped over in the road and they've just given up and everything sucks. I don't believe that is a true, accurate depiction of the left, but that's what they get told about it. I think dating plays into it. I think a lot of like young lads want to meet a girl. So they like...

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

watch some videos on YouTube, how to talk to women, how to be more confident.

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

watch some videos on YouTube, how to talk to women, how to be more confident.