In her latest video, Rebecca Watson covers a lot of the same ground I brought up in my last post, but there’s one additional thing she mentions.
I was surprised/not at all surprised to learn that Michael Shermer is defending the murder of Renee Good, as well as being generally pro-Trump and pro-ICE. I do not read anything by Shermer anymore, so good on Rebecca for having the intestinal fortitude to dig through the shit he vomits up.
Fuck Michael Shermer and the rest of his rightwing pro-murder pro-fascism sniveling grifters, who spread this lie even as we see ICE now enabled to literally go door to door, breaking into people’s homes, and dragging them away with zero accountability. They are filling their pockets with no concern that they are personally supporting Nazis. Tim Pool and Dave Rubin at least got paid millions of dollars by the Russians as a reward for spreading obvious lies…I wonder if Shermer is getting anything other than a handful of views on his shitty YouTube channel? I’m not sure which would be more pathetic, to be honest: if he was doing it for Russian disinformation money or for free in the desperate hope that he lands another spot on Joe Rogan.
‘Round about 2010, I was hanging out with Shermer, going to conferences where he was a fellow presenter, knowing nothing about what an execrably slimy fascist he was. I’m glad I’m no longer associated with that crowd of libertarian apologists, except…he still gets invited to conferences, but I don’t. I think Rebecca is excluded, too. We just have to trust that history will condemn those who joined the American Nazis.
So interesting that libertarians always used to be all about small government, but today so many are all-in on every government executive excess, from taxation without congressional approval (the tariffs) to the use of deadly force, the ultimate government power, without restraint.
Now there are oddly some exceptions…including it seems Rogan himself who has now spoken out against the ICE “tactics”.
(Kind of related to the deafening silence when Trump targets “blue” states with illegal impoundment of funding from all of those who preached the gospel of “states rights” for decades prior to 2017.)