Thanks, I haven’t followed his stuff since he found god
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 year agoHe sort of could’ve been if he stuck with his psudo-hippy crap. Then he started decrying science and vaccines, and the left actually believes in science, so his audience shifted.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It’s always the religious lot… tssk.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve known an extreme hippy be antivax before, so maybe that was the route he took
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More like was hoping to drag more vulnerable tacitly-left people to the right with him. He clearly decided to shift his rhetoric. There was no way in hell his audience was staying the same. He also shifted way too hard to make it subtle, so anyone with strong axioms was right out too.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Many hippies I know are completely anti western medicine so being antivax is kind of a given for them.