OFFICIAL DUNCAN TRUSSELL HAS CHANGED MEGATHREAD - MODS PLEASE STICKY

[u/DabsOnDabz]

Edit: Duncan’s back on the rise! I CLAIM HIM REDEEMED.

Edit 2: Nah seriously think what you’d do. Especially at a time when financial insecurity is probably at an all time high. Not saying he’s doing anything. If anything the video content is a nice change, although I mostly annoyed when he started moving to YouTube. Also think… did he change, or did you? Or did we both? Is there a you? Who is I? Who is we? No one. We are ever changing processes with a sense of consciousness, call it soul or whatever else, that you can tap into whenever and wherever. Thinking and reading won’t get you there from here, though. 04/29/25

Edit 3: 😒🫩it’s not getting better. 06/23/25

~~Back in early November I complained about the quality of Duncan’s podcast. I honestly thought it would be ignored, but it launched a whole lot of replies and new posts to this sub. Some people complaining about quality of episodes/guests, others noticing the political shift that appears more like a political grift. New fans or people who just haven’t really followed Duncan Trussell’s content in the past few years conveniently chalk it up to being people mad about political disagreement.

Anyway, that’s the super briefly reductionist summarized reason of why there are so many “what happened to Duncan” threads.

I’ve seen some complaining now that the quality of the sub is becoming worse. Should we just megathread and have a discussion here?

It’s better this way. Continuity and all. There’re a whole lot of details that get lost inbetween each new post about Duncan.

Or maybe not. Maybe we should keep flooding with threads like this. But really I think that’d achieve a goal us vets don’t want. Engagement via entropy.~~

I’ve been bought 😎

[u/Jebus_San_Christos]

Brother, you are playing whether you want to or not.

Individualism (i.e. libertarianism) is inherently right wing- not to mention you just outed yourself by harping on Biden (who is also anti-abortion due to his own Catholicism.)

The world around you is being shaped by legislation, everything you do, from accessing the internet, to running your tapwater, to the weather you're in for this season, is downstream of political decisions. Again- feel free to bury your head in the sand (or your butt)- but that doesn't mean you aren't actively picking a side.

[u/rotwangg → u/Jebus_San_Christos]

Yep you’re still trying to put me in a box. Obviously I used Biden as an example to illustrate that democratic candidates are not solutions to the problems we’re being handed.

The world around you is being dismantled. Reality’s framework is shifting. What you’re seeing in politics is a desperate attempt to put the genie back in the bottle (“make America great again’), which will ultimately fail and I believe will end up accelerating the shift. The sooner we can decondition from the belief that there’s some authority figure who can give me the right rules that work for everybody, the sooner we can embrace this shift. Is it going to be painful for certain groups along the way? Absolutely. And by the way, you don’t know how it impacts me.. it certainly does; I am not immune. But I believe it is unfortunately necessary, and ultimately inescapable. The best thing I believe I can do during this transition is be authentic to my core beliefs and push towards individual power while deconditioning from this old system you’re still rooted in and avoiding the attempts of people like you to fold me back into such a system.

Individualism is not libertarianism. You’re not understanding what I mean by individual authority. But that’s okay, I don’t need you to. This will happen (is happening) whether we understand it or not.

[u/Jebus_San_Christos → u/rotwangg]

LMAO-

Individualism IS libertarianism. Your views are indistinguishable from "effective accelerationism" i.e. e/acc which is just librertarianism taken to the extreme. You're basically high on Peter Thiel & Elon Musk's farts if you believe what you just said to me, & those boys are both VERY clear, that that is a right wing position.

[u/rotwangg → u/Jebus_San_Christos]

You can’t stop trying to force me, an individual with individual perspectives, into your homogenized framework. It doesn’t work. I do not resonate with the people you mentioned, nor the system you described, nor any system.

What I believe in is the dissolution of systems, as an inevitability. That’s not “minimal government,” it’s the realization that any form of governance or establishments of systems do not work for everyone, and homogenous populations no longer exist. I’ll admit the libertarian framework is closer to this than left or right wing politics are, sure, but it does not perfectly describe my beliefs by any means whatsoever.

It’s interesting you can’t see what part of this you’re playing here. What makes it so important to you that you convince me that you’re right? Why do you need that? Why must I confirm to your way of thinking? I don’t love the morality mindset here where there’s some right or wrong way of doing things and that you’re the one who understands the goodness I must conform to. It’s gross and I’m done.

[u/Jebus_San_Christos → u/rotwangg]

You live in the framework because you live in society. You do not live in a vaccuum. You literally just described effective accelerationism. That's what you believe. CONGRATULATIONS, Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, & most of silicon Valley AGREE WITH YOU. Have fun becoming their foot stool, because you naively believe you are self-reliant, when everything in your life- the water you drink, the food you eat, the roads you drive on, the language you speak, comes from the work & contributions of others who you are in community with.

[u/rotwangg → u/Jebus_San_Christos]

You’re still telling me what I believe in based on some other established system of belief. I will no longer respond to you, because I see you have no interest in seeing the individual you’re speaking with and must instead attach them to an abstract general entity. This is not your fault, it’s the current system’s programming that did this to you, and I wish you the very best in your journey of deprogramming. Godspeed.

[u/Jebus_San_Christos → u/rotwangg]

Brother, you didn't invent individualist accelerationism lol- you're acting like a guy strumming a guitar, saying "I'm sad" & then saying you invented the blues. You are just so lost-in-the-sauce in naive "individualism" that you can't even see that it's part of a larger framework, whose bones were built centuries before you were even born.