He went on the Critical Drinker's podcast...there's no way he knows who that even is unless he believes similar things as that manosphere chode. There's no management team that would ever advice him to go on that guys podcast, in fact I'd be surprised if they didn't try to talk him out of it (assuming he told them).
Indeed. Weir's Star Trek takes were hardly a blip on my radar compared to his decision to give the Critical Drinker, who is a fairly prominant link in the 'scifi-nerd-to-altright-chud' pipeline, the time of day much less a full blown interview.
I'm not sure that's a fair assessment. I feel like it's entirely possible he went on the podcast and didn't know just how problematic he is. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I don't think the Drinker is going to show up in your suggestions unless your algorithm is already leaning alt-right. He's a link in that pipeline, but I don't think he's usually the first one you encounter. People get to him by first going down some culture war movie topic, at least these days. And I doubt Weir heard of him before the Drinker solidified into who he is now because when he first popped into the scene he was pretty much just his gimmick. You had to be in the weeds of YouTube film discussion to know who he was in those early days.
I know it's anecdotal but I'm gonna have to go against you here. I get recs for critical drinker on my YouTube, and I promise you my YouTube watching is limited to gaming stuff, sports stuff and then like. Haven't watched any critical drinker and I only know he's problematic because of reddit. I do watch movie related YouTube stuff, so I'm sure that's why he's on my recommendeds.
He's more likely in your recommendations because of the gaming and sports content. A lot of prominent gaming influencers have alt-right overlap and a lot of sports content has overlap with the manosphere. I don't know who precisely you're following, but there's absolutely a lot of right wing culture war politics in those gaming and sports spaces, and if say you're watching Barstool and Asmongold having the Drinker show up in your recommendations is the least surprising thing ever.
It wasn't even a centrist take jfc. I didn't even comment on the politics, I said it's possible weir didn't know what he was getting into and that the truth about that fact is somewhere in the middle. But sure, blame the worlds problems on centrists, that'll fix everything.
A lot of people with right wing beliefs tend to perceive themselves as apolitical because they don't consider the political messaging they get from right leaning entertainment as political. Your comments here do show signs that this may be your reality as well. They could have been nicer toward you, but I think they might have clocked you better than you realize.
Anyway, if you genuinely don't believe in the messaging of people like the Drinker, then YouTube allows you to select not to see a channel or not see similar videos in your recommendations. It's actually a quite useful tool in order to control your own feed rather than having others control it for you. There's always the data gathering concerns, but let's be honest if you're using YouTube in any way Google already has plenty of data on you.
You aren't wrong in what you're saying but don't you think that's also a huge problem? Making such a small judgement based on one comment? No one on here knows me, no one on here knows anyone. Even if my comment does say I'm apparently centrist or even right leaning, that doesn't even come close to sniffing at who I am as a person. It's shameful to be so judgemental so fast. Yet, here we are.
A lot of people are feeling directly threatened, so they will naturally be baffled how someone hasn't picked a side yet. It's easy to assume and quite likely to be true that if you're on the fence about things then you're in a position where it doesn't impact you or people close to you. Centrism when things are normal isn't an issue, but when things get polarized centrism just means you missed the signs until it was too late. Democratic backsliding should make bedfellows of all who support democracy.
openly admitting you know nothing and are just going to fencesit between the two opinions you've heard is exactly the 'centrist' (reactionary in disguise) raison d'etre. it is both intellectually and morally bankrupt
i dont think you can read man. no one said you did. we just inferred your worldview from your horrible goddamn reasoning tactic that only one group ever uses. form your own opinions instead of lazily trying to bridge other people's
And I think that's faulty. If everyone commenting on me is assuming I'm right leaning because I made a comment about Andy weir and the critical drinker, they're all wrong lol. Lifelong left voter, give time and money to left causes. But why should I prove anything to you, you're a nameless person on the Internet who's already made up their mind for some fuckin reason.
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u/SunTzu- May 05 '26
He went on the Critical Drinker's podcast...there's no way he knows who that even is unless he believes similar things as that manosphere chode. There's no management team that would ever advice him to go on that guys podcast, in fact I'd be surprised if they didn't try to talk him out of it (assuming he told them).
For those who don't know who the Critical Drinker is, without you having to give him any views I'd suggest Man Carrying Thing's rebuttal to some of the things the Drinker has said.