Peterson Analyzes Crowder

You lost me when you wrote "I went 2/5 because it's Crowder's Youtube channel so he's getting our clicks when you upload his stuff." You didn't even imply - you explicitly stated that your reason for your rating was the channel and its host, not the content. You KNOW I don't like that, and you KNOW the reason why. We would disagree strongly about who is lying to who about climate change, our ability to understand what affects it, and the proper solution assuming all bad weather moving forward is your fault (not mine, yours - that's your belief system). It is not Crowder who lies about climate change - at best it would be the guests he has on that lie about climate change, and I don't see it that way at all. Crowder made a crack about climate change in the first 15 seconds of this video - if you had said you gave it 2/5 because of what he said about climate change I would not frame it as a suppression or censorship issue. But when you say you downrate it just because it's Crowder and you don't want anyone else (I would assume, because you watched it right?) to add views to his channel, that's you expressing the desire to act as a censor on behalf of others. You didn't even need to make a comment but you felt compelled to do so and explained that it was a blanket dislike for the source that prompted your rating. I don't downrate based on source or poster (for example I just ignore the John Oliver posts, or sometimes watch about one minute and then comment without rating) because I understand the therapeutic value he offers for those who are still recovering from the trauma of the world as represented to them by the MSM revealing itself to be false. That shit is scary, so many have been infantalized, and I understand the emotions involved.

For a while I was one-starring any extreme left anti-Trump posts by dupes driven by CNN and other MSM propaganda regardless of source or poster and then just stopped caring altogether, having recognized that severely hurt and confused people are just trying to work through their cognitive dissonance and, although I don't think the approach is healthy (it's like that debunked psychology method where a patient is told to pummel the shit out of a representation of their mother or father to address past issues of real or perceived trauma). Sometimes I see something so utterly idiotic in relation to Trump that I watch 30 seconds and then give it 1 star, but I'm doing my best to avoid that and just stick with the objective, rational and non-triggered evaluators such as Scot Adams. I recommend you check out his interview with Sam Harris - I never thought I would hear such a triggered, whiney and empty moralizing version of Harris. He doesn't sound like himself at all, and struggles greatly with actually backing up his emotional statements with rational arguments as Adams repeatedly spanks him. It was strange and embarrassing. So even the great intellects are still not quite able to accept what has occurred and seem still to be stuck at Nov. 7th 2016.

I have presented rational and effective methods of ripping down Trump in anticipation of 2020 and have been repeatedly gang-raped on this site by traumatized delusionals who just want to sink their teeth into a stuffed doll and call it a day. Trump has been your country's Buckley's, pooring die into the petri dish and bringing into sharp relief so many things that are empirically clear now but which those on the extreme left continue to deny - if they keep doing that they'll descend further and further into reckless lunacy (which see "Kid Rock 2020"). 2020 will be the time for a refeshing chaser of Gabbard - that's my dream, Trump was a step towards getting there, and so far it has been well worth it. I still give it 50/50 that he will make it through the year without being removed from office, although I argue strongly against it since if that happens the Gabbard dream dies with his administration and we go back to the old machinery of a well-polished parasitic establishment that will clamp down hard to ensure such an outsider never comes close to gaining power again.

So all that's to say that if you want to give a reason for why you downrated something, if your reason is blanket ideological suppression I would ask you to keep it to yourself because it's just about the only thing that genuinely triggers me on this site. It's been going on now on this site for so many months that it has made me into the thing I am complaining about at several points and I have to keep pulling back, telling myself that there's no fighting THAT level of emotional confusion, and just wait it out. I give the duckling's posts typically 4/5 or 5/5 but do my best to ignore his Trump horeshit rather than get drawn into the thing again, and I am genuinely grateful that berg has left the building. Because things have improved, I'm happy - there's enough content being posted here that the previous 24/7 extreme left Trump temper tantrum nonsense is being largely drowned out, which is good. I continue to do what I can to deliberately funnel new users to this site using whatever leverage I can muster.