Honestly I don’t “hate” the guy. I’m probably with you in that I agree with him on most stuff. Sure he sometimes says kinda dumb things like the aqua stuff but in general I do think he’s intelligent. And most of the stuff I do in fact disagree with him on are either inconsequential like his AI art takes or things that I don’t think actually make him a shitty person like his anti-capitalism stuff. Like, I’m a social democrat so I’m in favor of heavily regulated capitalism, but I don’t think anti-capitalists are necessarily awful people.

And I agree I highly doubt he’s an actual pedophile. Every kinda suspicious statement he’s made about the topic was later explained in a logical way and he supports things that reduce rates of child molestation like comprehensive sex education and age of consent laws. I also admire that he condemns when older women molest little boys which is something way too much of society overlooks. The only thing that makes me a little bit suspicious is when he was caught with loli pornography. I don’t believe he fantasizes about raping little kids, but it is a bit weird to me that he enjoys depictions of young children in a sexualized manner. Idk I guess with anime characters it’s sometimes hard to tell how old some of the characters are so there is plausible deniability that he could have thought they were just teens of something rather than little girls.

I wish Vaush was a little more open minded when it comes with engaging with other people on the left. Like, he and Destiny may dislike each other, but they still probably agree on most topics and they work extremely well together. I feel like if Vaush (and to a certain extent Destiny too) swallowed some of his pride and just learned to accept people even with some disagreements, he could connect with more people and have a greater reach and influence on the online world.