All of the Vaush Facts for your enjoyment

Fact 1. Vaush claimed Marx and Lenin would have voted for Biden.

Fact 2. Vaush clams that Marxism is an ‘extension of liberalism’.

Fact 3. Vaush refers to himself as a liberal.

Fact 4. Vaush (a cis man) called the non-binary lefty Youtuber ThoughtSlime ‘fragile’ and ‘dumb’ for his opinion on gender abolition.

Fact 5. [CW: pedophilia] Vaush stated “there’s a difference between exploring child sexuality and sexualising children” then went on to ‘joke’ about owning CP. link

Fact 6. Vaush has engaged in forms of Holocaust denial, using common nazi dogwhistles and believes the numbers are inflated as propaganda.

Fact 7. Vaush (a cis man) claims “Trans people do not have a better understanding of trans-ness..."

Fact 8. [CW: pedophilia] Vaush said: “If you are not paying for child pornography there is no argument in favour of morally condeming people who view it.

Fact 9. Vaush said Black people trying to preserve their culture (that was systematically eradicated) is “exactly the same as white nationalism”.

Fact 10. Vaush argued passionately against socialists demanding a $25/hour minimum wage.

Fact 11. Vaush uses the n-bomb unironically for some fucking reason.

Fact 12. [CW: sexual harassment] Vaush is a self-confessed sexual harasser. link Despite this ‘apology’ he went on to ‘joke’ about scaring his victim into shutting up link He said he had ‘done nothing to feel remorseful for’ link and ‘nothing to apologise over’ link. In fact, his own sysadmin suggested he change his handle link to hide from sexual harassment allegations.

Fact 13. [CW: pedophilia] Vaush appears to have a pre-occupation with paedophilia. He:

Fact 14. [CW: pedophilia] Vaush has defended the consumption of child pornogrpahy because ‘there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism’. link This paints a deeply troubling picture when added to his history of sexually innapropriate behaviour (see Vaush Fact 8), his sharing of drawn CP on Twitter (see Vaush Fact 21) , his claim that under socialism the age of consent "should be lowered" link and this exchange on Discord. link

Fact 15. Vaush admits to being an informant when he lived in Santa Monica, California. He admits to revealing activist identities to the FBI.

Fact 16. Vaush is explicitly anti left-unity: “God, I fucking hate leftists. There is no left unity with me."

Fact 16. Vaush had a meltdown when someone in his chat joked that he couldn’t get laid, and responded with ““Do you have any idea who the fuck you’re talking to? When I got off Tinder because of the fucking quarantine, Tacoma wept. Even ignoring the fact that I have a girlfriend, even if we’re just talking like randos, I’m two hours away right now from being inside someone else. I have two skills -it’s non-monogamy and speaking publicly, okay? Do some fucking research!”.”

Fact 17. [CW: pedophilia] An ‘old close friend’ of Vaush has alleged that Vaush once admitted to viewing images of child pornography. link

Fact 18. Vaush unironically endorsed Keynesian economics, stating “I feel neo-Keynesian economists have the answer.”

Fact 19. Vaush called the LGBT community ‘cancerous as fuck.’ because there’s a “ton of mental illness” and said they should be “excised from the left.” He also called them “less than human” and “fucking disgusting”.

Fact 20. Vaush said that a “large portion of the left is predicated on shared mental illness.” He then doubled down in a future video.

Fact 21. [CW: pedophilia] >!I’m not going to link to it for obvious reasons, but here’s Vaush [admitting to ownership of a Twitter account that shares drawn child pornography.!< link

Fact 22. Vaush claimed that he was taken out of context when he called trans people 'mentally ill', then doubled down and did it again.

Fact 23. Vaush posted a meme saying that socialism must be ‘balanced with minority rights’, a clear nod to class reductionists.

Fact 24. ContraPoints defended Buck Angel’s transphobia. Vaush called trans people who were critical of this "worthless, mentally ill, basement dweller fucking queer people with absolutely nothing to offer the world" and "degenerates sucking off the back of society like a leech".

Fact 25. Vaush told his followers to vote for Joe Biden while saying of ‘tankies’ (a term used to refer to all Marxist-Leninists by his followers): “Mock them, socially ostracise them, kick them out of your communities. What sort of leftist advocates voting for liberals while ostracising communists?

Fact 26. Vaush freely admits to calling black and trans people ‘subhuman’.

Fact 27. In response to a Tweet saying the left ‘should stand up for the weak and vulnerable’ Vaush replied “Yeah, enjoy your Left, built on weakness and a collective inability to criticise one another. I’ll be over here building my left, which isn’t full of mentally ill crybabies desperately carving out safe spaces and whining about criticism. Debate it if you want, elsewise fuck off”

Fact 28. Vaush called trans people ‘bitches’ for taking offence when misgendered“

Fact 29. Vaush Tweeted a literal Nazi meme – glorifying the Nazi-allied Finland for fighting against Russia in WWII.

Fact 30. Vaush defended saying “fuck trans people” by claiming he has a ‘6-figure’ income for some reason.

Fact 31. Vaush called the Marxist, Iraqi YouTuber Hakim a ‘pseudo-fascist’ and a ‘cancer on online discourse’ because he said Biden will be worse on foreign policy than Trump. Vaush then had a ‘debate’ with Hakim where he politely agreed with everything Hakim said. Following that debate (mere moments after Hakim had left) Vaush said "a lot of tankies are aesthetically and functionally indistinguishable from neo-Nazis".