If you don't see any leftishness in Tim Pool, I'd suggest that your notion of left vs. right could be recalibrated.

Tim Pool is a self-described social liberal. He's long been a strong Bernie Sanders supporter.

He also has frequently noted that the establishment media ignores this and labels him "far-right" just because he disagrees with certain establishment perspectives.

I give close to zero weight to self-description of political alignment. It often has a poor correlation with what specific beliefs a person holds.

> I give close to zero weight to self-description of political alignment.

And what about supporting perhaps the furthest left political candidate in US history, Bernie Sanders?

He also supported Donald Trump for president in 2020. On a left-right axis, this is a massive swing, but on a boring-"anti-establishment" axis, it's pretty consistent. So I doubt his support for Sanders was due to a love of leftist politics.

> And what about supporting perhaps the furthest left political candidate in US history, Bernie Sanders?

Bernie Sanders is not the furthest left candidate in US history.

He's also not the furthest left Presidential (primary) candidate in US history.

He's also not the furthest left major party Presidential (primary) candidate in U.S. history.

Is it the point of "nonethewiser" that l Bernie is the furthest left candidate? No, you are just not facing his actual question. Which is: can you call somebody right if he supports a leftist candidate?

> Which is: can you call somebody right if he supports a leftist candidate?

Well, I dunno, Dennis Kucinich, who was arguably a farther left major party Presidential candidate than Sanders, also turned around and supported Trump, who was a far right candidate, up until the Jan. 6 riot.

So, yeah, I can easily someone far right supporting Sanders, the flip side of that.

Like now-mask-off MAGA rightist Tulsi Gabbard, who also supported Sanders, before running herself. (Actually, a weirdly large number of rightist have come out of the Sanders camp; well, weird if you think of politics as simple one-dimensional spectrum.)

A willfully obtuse comment that detracts from the gist of the discussion. Doesn't Tim Poole support of Bernie Sanders imply his far-left leaning bias?

> Doesn’t Tim Poole support of Bernie Sanders imply his far-left leaning bias?

Well, no.

For one thing, Sanders isn’t “far left”.

For another thing, Sanders anti-establishment populism that was seen as particularly aligned against the Democratic establishment was a draw that wasn’t really based on left-right alignment (or in some cases was, in a way directly opposed to the description of him as a leftist, for many of the same reasons he had trouble with core Democratic constituencies on guns, race, and other issues.)

The left in the US corresponds in many aspects to political middle ground in many parts of Europe. Bernie Sanders‘ views wouldn‘t be particularly left-wing in my country …

Yeah absolutely not, Tim Pool regularly retweets and boosts extremely right wing figures on Twitter and is currently fanning the flames of a culture war. Just because someone claims to be something doesn’t mean you have to accept it at face value. He’s a conservative in every sense of the word. Bernie Sanders himself would abhor the crap he spews.

And North Korea calls itself "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Run by "The Workers Party".

Skip the "establishment media" and check Pool's social media. He's right-wing.

Also, what a person "describes" himself as is worthless. He can say he's a social liberal. He's not.

He can say whatever he wants about his own politics, it is abundantly clear from his political statements and activities that he is not left in the slightest bit.

He also supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

I think Tim Pool is neither right nor left, I think he's a fucking hack who looks to who's paying attention to him at the moment and that's where he aligns himself for the time.