[taneq]

Regardless of your (or my) personal political leanings, don't you think it's a bit of a thought-bubble red flag if you consider someone as automatically discredited for holding a ~majority (or even major minority) political stance?

[paultopia]

It's not even so much his political stance as his lunatic ravings about it: there's not a drop of policy in his talk about trump, it's all weird mysticism about how persuasive a personality trump has, sort of reminds me of the way PUA types talk.

[hawkice]

Indeed. He doesn't even endorse Trump so much as praise his hypnotic influence. Very strange things to hear about anyone. If you heard someone praise Elon Musk or Barack Obama as having a masterful way of manipulating people, and they kept bringing it up over and over... You'd assume they were nuts.

[tjfl]

What's a PUA type?

[ergothus]

PUA = pick up artist. There's a whole subculture that is somewhat terrifying.

[war1025]

I think people let politics get in the way of a lot of otherwise useful information they could take in. So I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure that I disagreed with you to begin with...

[taneq]

Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your point so much as just commenting on the fact that so many people here say "X says blah but they're a conservative so who cares what they think." I probably could have worded it better, though.

[xref]

honestly Adams has been doing more trolling than political-punditry nowadays is probably the main reason people are dismissive of him