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So Many Pundits And “Thought Leaders” Are Just F’n Grifters

The Culture Wars have given us a 500x scale of this problem.

Ted Bauer
3 min readNov 1, 2023

You may be familiar with this guy Konstanin (I think that’s the spelling) from the Triggernometry YouTube channel, which admittedly I do watch sometimes. He basically rails against wokeness, and claims not to be right-wing but “politically non-binary” (which always gets a pithy laugh from attendees at his speeches), but in reality he’s as far-right as any other guy purporting to not be far-right but “a champion of ideals” or “a fighter for our future.” He’s essentially like a less-rich version of Elon with similar talking points and maybe less babies.

This dude came out and gave a speech at some conference recently that was mostly populated by Elon trad-wife types, I.e. Jordan Petersen and Michael Shellenberger and others. (Note: all these guys have been on Rogan repeatedly, mostly bashing the idiocy of the left.) Here’s the speech:

The end of this one is particularly brutal, because he first talks about “life not being about…

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Ted Bauer
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