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I don't know him, so I took a quick look. It looks like he was against some of the mandatory COVID measures. I don't really understand the point of you trying to call out his politics here. It's not the topic at-hand, and his views are hardly outside the mainstream, and at a first glance don't seem to be hateful or bigoted. So can't we just stick to the topic, and agree to disagree instead of trying to wholesale imply this guy holds "sus" (i.e. "not acceptable") views?

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Sus doesn't mean "not acceptable".

Anyway, "against some mandatory measures" is an understatement. He's literally an antivaxxer and it's not just about COVID. E.g.: https://twitter.com/unconed/status/1558063608772366337

You don't have to go far back in his Twitter timeline to also see him bashing the trans movement, green energy and Ukraine. He's definitely hateful and bigoted.

Notch was cancelled for less.

Depending on what you mean by bashing the trans movement, almost half the coworkers and neighbors I know talk about US backed bio warfare labs and how Putin was justified in his attack, how the vaccines sterilized Taiwan, and the election was stolen. They also typically say something like "I don't care what adults get up to, but letting kids make permanent body modifications before they can drive is wrong" I can't cancel almost half the people I know outside my friend circle. Some of them are family. These people span working class to PHDs in hard science from top tier schools, and backgrounds of midwest evangelical Christian to fertile crescent Muslims to west coast atheists, and I don't have a theory about what line of thought they all followed to get where they are. I try to have calm conversations with them when I can, but there is always some anxiety there, I suspect they don't talk about that stuff unless they think people are like them, and when they realize I have a multidimensional political spectrum they get nervous. At least at work I try to engage with them only on the merits of their work. I think we can do that with creator's like this, but I also don't want my money funding hate groups, so there is a line. I suspect in progressive environments people with these viewpoints are pretty quiet. I've bumped into them in fairly progressive cities as uber drivers or ML researchers. The "silent majority" is no longer a majority, but they aren't just a handful either, and their views have shifted.

> The "silent majority" is no longer a majority

Maybe, but they were never silent.

Having had a look at his twitter, i rate this situation 220 milliurbits.

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