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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
The things he posts are too aggressive, outlandish and over the line to be excused by a traumatic past.
Plenty of individuals who experienced awful things in their formative years went on to channel that toward good causes.
Theo went the opposite way, and his refusal to slow down or chill out is entirely on him. Using retroactive reasoning to absolve his present day decisions is silly.
Don't care how chummy he seemed for 5 minutes in 1996. That's not reason enough to grant him a hall pass for using his platform and status to be a lunatic that rallies other lunatics to perpetuate dangerous ideas.
Yeah, obviously the guy isn't all bad. But let's keep the whole picture in perspective too.
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It's also the problem with most social media in general. Everything gets filtered down to being in line with your beliefs and it turns into an echo chamber where almost all interaction you have is with people that think the same way as you. During covid, I lost a couple family members down this rabbit hole. One of them finally saw what was happening and pulled back. The other one has unfortunately gone even further to the point where anything Fleury says is mild in comparison.