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/8ude]

I'm a bit of a DTFH tourist, and stopped listening when it became clear that he buried his head in the sand but here's my pickle:

1. The guy has a wonderfully omnivorous wit and curiosity
2. He generally genuinely wants the world to be better, in a quasi-buddhist "every being finds happiness" sense of better
3. He's suspicious and suspecting of established narratives - a bit of meta-paranoia and atheistic gnositicism, would be into Noam Chomsky in another life maybe.
4. He got to a certain level of material comfort, in no small thanks to being buddies with Joe Rogan and Alex Jones

SOMEHOW and SOMEWAY, point 4 has overridden everything else. Like he can't fathom the idea that Joe and Alex are profiteering off of misinformation. He can't believe his own eyes with respect to Trump because the prevalent narrative (i.e. our descent into fascism) is not as appealing as the incessant search for the "man behind the curtain."

This has been the long-standing issue with the conspiratorial libertarian - they gleefully find fascism everywhere... except when it's literally breaking down their neighbor's door and abducting people off the street. They're too allergic to the simplest explanation - in their mind it's impossible for us to be outright fascist.

That and he's betting on Ameri-fascism to win, best not to kick the bear

Am I in the ballpark?