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I've been following Mike for years. I think he's done a lot of great work, and he's led me to ideas that directly improved my life, but this behavior flat out looks like shit. It does not look like someone who's in the right and knows it, with nothing to hide.
Once again, I find myself in the bizarre position of trying to argue the case of the side I don't even agree with. But I'm not going to descend to intellectual dishonesty and lies just to prop up my side. I'm not going to endorse Mike's handling of this situation just because I think he's right about the substance of their disagreement.
yup feel the same. Ive been reading him, applied his work, and learning from him for years now. And i'll continue to do so. Mike is a genius.
But in this particular situation, it seems like Mike went full blast, gave Tim an unrecoverable position which pushed Tim to tell all on twitter and has now set out to pick him apart using every legal means necessary.
I never thought Mike would do that to a member of the right much less a fairly prominent one [as far as outreach to non red pill people is concerned]. Yes people are going to point out Richard Spencer, and i didnt like that whole salute thing either, but i could understand MC's position being against it.
But for this, it almost seemed like a completely different person. One that was wanting to jettison some people before the big day at the ball lest some 'embarassing' elements of the right say something provocative or out of line to any person in power that was attending.
If it's Tim today, who will it be tomorrow?
It also seems like there was probably private fuckups that Baked may have done as far as deadlines and such and Mike got fed up with it.
But you are right in that there is a lot of psyops at work. Deleting periscopes, tweets. Reframing your opposition, ignoring the legitimate positive critics that want reconciliation and riling up as many people as possible so you can use the dumb tweets and memes of what they say as evidence that you were right to cast them off.
Mike is an extremely intelligent nearly 40 year old man with a family. He lives and dies by the catchphrase "when are you going to get serious with your life?"
Tim is a guy who is 10 years younger, only recently redpilled and was unemployed for a long time until this whole MAGA thing gave him something positive in his life. He had a colourful past, and still has some inner demons that he probably battles with. He also has hope and ambitions, but he's not quite worked out the rules of the game when it comes to things. He's genuine and sincere, and fucks up from time to time.
This is like and angry tyson fighting a sick little kid with leukaemia because tyson raised money for him. Its kinda brutal and needless you know?