Wonderful to have a thread about him. I've been watching this fuck for God knows how long and wanted an excuse to vent my disdain for him.
He's a double-mouth. On Rubin he presents himself as some apolitical figure purely concerned with philosophy and the truth while in his videos he rants like an autistic child having a stroke. To this guy, like to every ancap I'll give credit to the ancaps on this board, you're pretty damn smart, anyone who merely suggests that maybe, just maybe, some centralized authority or maybe some regulations can be helpful in its general outcome, is a communist. Apparently social democracy will lead to million-trillion-gorillion deaths by gommunism and that almost all leftist (I love how desperately he tries to intellectualize this, no no, not EVERYONE, that's silly, just about almost everyone that ideologically opposes me) are r-selected-powerhungry-cultural-marxist-something-something. And, if I may use a phrase this retard likes to spout, he's "virtue signaling" about how you're a trash human being if you overlook the gorillions - and how wouldn't you! You're automatically tied to them!
No I'm not a leftist. And even if you ancaps agree with his vitriol, he's just awful in his own right regardless of the position he takes. He can't take criticism, he has childish antics like pulling dumb faces and making tasteless impressions of some imaginary opponent, he constantly needs to remind his viewers (and himself) that he's a philosopher, whenever he responds to his critics he belittles them through sugar coating, his prose and vocabulary is absolutely nauseous to read, he is dishonest, he has ego issues etc etc. The literally single redeeming quality about him is his approach to children.
Look at the shit that happens in the video. The guy wasn't antagonizing, he wasn't being rude, he only made a reasonable suggestion. Stefan immediately took it as a personal attack on his skill and had a meltdown for 40 minutes straight. Is screeching about your view count and the amount of time you've been doing something sounds like an argument to you? To Stefan it sure does. And to add, his analogies fucking suck. You can be a newbie at something and still give a decent suggestion, depending on the sphere of thought of course - debating, unlike swimming, something we all do all the time through our lives, is just such thing.
Here are two more examples why Stefan is a total hack and just weasels around with rhetoric. One time that he had a Swede and his girlfriend on his show, and the topic of woman suffrage came up. Stefan says that when women got the vote the countries took a socialist turn in the span of up to 30 years. So the Swede asks if women should be allowed to vote. Stefan pauses for a second with a dumbfounded look on his face, realizes that's he's been cornered, and just says with a big smile and his arms outstretched: "No one should have the vote!" Come on Stefan… We know what the caller meant, not "whether there should be some form of voting", he meant "when we have voting, should women be allowed to vote?" Sadly the caller didn't catch Stefan's trick. Stefan knew he was in a trap, if he answered yes then he'd be inconsistent with the information he said a moment ago, if he answered no then he'd confirm his distrust and disdain for women (and hilariously still be inconsistent in the respect that he'd condone unequal legal status and asymmetrical use of force by one group on another through voting). So what do you do in such a situation? Move the goalposts!
Another example is when he had some guy on his show asking about discrimination. So his analogy in favor of discrimination was denying a homeless man to perform a surgery being the same thing like denying someone service on their group background - except denying a homeless man to do a surgery is on the basis of skill and the welfare of the patient, it's not even close to denying someone service because of their group background that has no weight whatsoever on the actual action except the opinion of the service provider. I have no problem with freedom of dis/association, but Molyneux is downright retarded here.
Do I even need to mention the time he said that the sun is polluting? He's desperate to be right about everything and he'll pull the most pathetic "arguments" to at least try to look right. That so-called charisma some people think he has is just his cocksureness
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