I like a lot of his content.. but I honestly think he's far right. He has a video where he says they're just "teaching marxism" in college (the section of the video is literally labeled "LeftWing Propoganda"), and the reactions he has to certain things make me uh.. skeptical.
In this very video he says he'll post his content "wherever I'm allowed to", letting me know he knows how he's being perceived.
I don't care where it is, far right fucks should be called out and kicked out. Bad political ideas are often indicative of other shitty personal traits.
"There is a place for everything", and forcing unrelated subjects/situations into everyone "because its a fight for human rights" is not the way to sort/deal with it. But rather, create unnecessary noise and trouble. Or else we'd have folks saving the world by shouting against the wall(s) constantly -- which is (pretty much) at the same level of importance than what is being (forcefully) proposed here.
I watch his content and its pretty good but you're right his leanings are a bit questionable. A couple of months ago he made a youtube short about complaining about gas prices and blaming Biden because obviously POTUS controls world wide gas prices.
It's a known tactic of American far right to blame high fuel prices on incumbent Democrat presidents while excusing Republicans with the "market forces" argument.
They know that the price of gas in US is beyond the president's control, but they still try to pin it on Democrats anyway.
I feel like that's the case with most tech expert channels. I'd even say Mental Outlaw is relatively mild compared to Distrotube ("if you support open-source, you should also support guns") and especially Luke Smith (holy shit, where do I even begin).
I watch them because their expertise in FOSS technologies is beyond question, but that is where my trust in them ends.
Both Distrotube and Luke Smith are firmly in the category of - I used to watch their videos until I was like "whoa buddy, I thought we were talking about Linux and stuff..."
His comment base seems to be populated en masse by hardcore antisemites even off odysee, which he has literally never addresses. His content is cool sometimes, but it's just.... uhhhh. yeah......
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