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Tim Pool (self described as left of center) has his take on the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyb8cN_A_8&t=946s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyb8

• techntoke 7y ago
  Alt-right commentator who pretends to be left of center.
• iron0013 7y ago
  Why is it that when someone claims to be left of center I know that they’re about to say something right-wing? It’s a transparent attempt to nudge the Overton window by making it seem as though “the center” is even further right than the commentator.
  • wahern 7y ago
    One of this week's XKCD themes, Waiting for the But: https://xkcd.com/2146/ https://xkcd.com/2146/ I don't mean to pick on anybody. It's a common rhetorical device, which is why the comic is funny. I've used it and struggle not to (not always successfully).
  • rspen 7y ago
    If you actually bothered to watch more than one of his videos you'd easily be able to surmise he is politically left of center. He's probably more of a classic liberal than a modern one, but he wants things such as single payer health care, progressive taxes, etc. Those are definitely left of center ideas.
  • burfog 7y ago
    Pew Research has determined that the Overton window has barely moved at all for the right-wing, but has moved quite a bit for the left-wing. This means that what you perceive as nudging may in fact just be trying to hold it in place. We can call it a Theory of Overton Relativity. https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB (a really interesting set of histograms) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/05/takeaways-on-americans-growing-partisan-divide-over-political-values/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/05/takeaways-o...