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      he apparently is 20yo, i thought he was older. im guessing he was suppose to be next new thing for younger genz/gen alpha to get into the manosphere. thiel had some odd choices.

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        Thiel is still an old, creepy gay man. (I’m gay too, so I’m emphasizing the ‘creepy’ here.) It makes complete sense that he’d pick a young, attractive guy.

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          Apparently funded by Thiel.

          It comes as no surprise to me at least. In recent years we’ve been hearing how these manosphere and right wing guys are funded by right wing oligarchs. I mean the basic production values are top notch. It can’t be explained simply by the widespread availability of professional film making equipment. Which is the explanation I hear often. You can pick a random content creator with no audience who has somehow procured expensive equipment yet they won’t be able to reach the same level of quailty because they don’t know what they’re doing. Plus they don’t have the money to buy production staff to run everything for them. That in itself gives a false sense of capability behind the characters.

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    “The charges listed against Clavicular, 20, whose real name is Braden Peters, are one count of rape, one count of drugging someone for sexual intercourse, and one count of procuring liquor for someone under 21 years old, according to the records.”

    Looks like all charges are related to the same event.

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      he looks like the type that would attract people like thiel rather than chicks(thiel made him his new plaything to push the manosphere)

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        Might need to add a tone indicator (“/s”) to clarify you’re pointing out the heinous attitude and not actually endorsing it before you get further downvoted

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    No surprise. What’s the ROI there, Clav?

    I recommend the Channel 5 interview with Clavicular. It was all new to me and the guy is a trip.

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      I felt so much dumber having to listen to him speak for that long. I put it on at the start of a ~1 hr drive. I didn’t want to fumble around with my phone to turn it off, but man it was hard to listen to. The guy is insufferable.

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        Pro tip: podcasts, audiobooks and such often work better at the speed of 1.15 or so.

        This message is brought to you by that time I watched ‘The Matrix’ 2 and 3 before discovering the speed option in VLC. Which I still lament.

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          I’ve never had a podcast not work because of the speed I was listening to it at, what do you mean they work better?

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            ‘Work’ in the sense that they better match my speed of comprehension and the rhythm of life to which I’m used. The same way as films from the eighties are often quite slow, e.g. watching Bill Murray take half a minute to walk across the room in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ was too much.

            In the podcast app I’m using, I have speed setting for every subscription set to an optimal value, depending on the host/guests and the density of material.

            Previously I’ve also tried higher speed like 1.3, but found that I can’t remember the content afterwards.

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      I’m wary of channel 5 after they gave their mailing list away to hunter biden’s memecoin team. I’m not a fan of that.

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        I looked it up and they gave emails away to boost other projects and when this project started asked for them not to be included in crypto advertising. None of his subscribers ever received emails through his list for crypto due to this request.

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        I think you missed the second half of that story. Andrew posted a short video about it - that is not exactly what happened and hunter biden’s team agreed.

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    To the surprise of nobody.

    I don’t get the following these guys get and never have. Remember Tucker Max, the I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell guy? I worked with some guys who were all about him. I borrowed his book from one of them and didn’t get it at all. There were a couple of funny bits, but that was it and he got a fucking movie deal off of it. After the movie he kinda disappeared and I figured that was the end of this kind of douchebag. Boy, was I wrong.

    The only thing I ever learned from that idiot is that confidence goes a long way, but as far as I know that dude never got married and is likely miserable these days.

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      A portion of it literally involves hitting youre face with a blunt object repeatedly for… somehow shaping a chiseled jawline? It’s mostly a bunch of unproven toxic bullshit that’s tied to the rest of the ‘manosphere’.

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        Don’t forget weird home “remedies” like smashing your own face with a hammer. They also inject themselves with sketchy Chinese chemicals. I wish it were only as bad as advocating for surgery (though admittedly that’s often toxic itself)

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      “The practice of taking one or more sometimes extreme or dangerous measures intended to increase one’s physical attractiveness.”

      He has been known for “bone smashing,” or using a hammer to intentionally break facial bones so they grow back stronger or looking better.

      I suspect that in the not too distant future he will receive a lot of assistance from others with the breaking of his facial bones.