Charisma on Command: An Odd Content Farm
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So if I tell Joel I'm leaving and then say some silly words then he will respond?
Wish you still*** made longer videos :(
I know this is kind of a "I'm leaving this Facebook group"-ass comment, and I'm not looking for a response I just want to communicate something to bigjoel. I am unsubscribing from your Patreon as a result of a comment I saw of yours from a few weeks ago about the rightness of advocating against voting for the democrats while they are participating in genocide and seem to plan to continue. I found your analysis very antimaterialist and symbolic and ultimately it just gave me ick. I hope you've come around on this issue since then or would be open to looking into it further. I recently read RP Dutt's "Fascism and Social Revolution" which I loved and includes analysis I think is relevant to this discussion, the whole "lesser of two evils" thing. Love your vids, btw.
I imagine you're already gone (which is fine, I'm not owed your support.) But to anyone reading this, my position on voting is very simple: People should use whatever power they have in society to impact its politics. It's my opinion that Trump could only be worse for the people of Gaza, and so I think it's appropriate to vote against him. I'd just say, vote with your conscience. If you'd prefer one of the two candidates, it's usually a good idea to vote for that one. I don't personally see this as "anti materialist" but honestly, I don't really know what that means in this context. Are materialists forced to accept the position that all presidential candidates are the same? I don't think so, but who knows, maybe I'm wrong.
Charisma king referring to Krishnan Guru-Murthy as just “the guy” is hilarious. Even I know who that is on the complete other side of the world
When I was mingling with the alt-right as a teen, after being swindled by the atheist youtubers into being an anti-feminist, Charisma on Command was one of the channels I watched. He would make these detailed explainers about how cool and good Peterson was, and I'd eat them up because JP looked like such an intellectual. All this to say, I don't like this guy. He's not just happy to feed off the alt-right, he actively participates in the construction of the manosphere and the idolatry of the people within. Anyway cool vid joel as always
Everyone knows that the best way to spot a narcissist is by holding up a mirror in front of everyone you meet. Narcissists don't have a reflection, so the mirror makes it really easy to tell. When you spot one, it is important to remember that while they are stronger, faster, and can live forever, they have weaknesses. They need to stay out of direct sunlight. They are also unable to enter someone's home without an invitation. To be fair, this information only applies if the narcissist in question happens to be a vampire, but I don't think it's any less helpful than the CoC video.
thought for years your pfp had a massively wide-brimmed hat. i'm shocked and appalled that it's just a torn piece of paper. you've destroyed my trust
I definitely used to see that hat too lmao
omg ive been seeing these videos all over my recommended after i watched the one with RDJ out of curiosity. i have a bachelor's and master's degree in psychology and couldn't stop laughing the entire video. literally saying the most obvious thing in the world. as someone with actual expertise in psychology it's so frustrating to see people pretend like they know what they're talking about when it's so obvious to me that they know nothing
The charisma king sets off my fight or flight to be honest. I can almost picture him saying a partner calling him out on bad behavior is being passive aggressive or narcissistic. I don't like it, he should command that charisma away from women imo. Sorry to this man I guess lol
Just a thought on their Elizabeth Holmes video - the whole pitch of Holmes's company was that it was a new technology innovation to improve blood testing effectiveness. No layman could intuitively discount it, and that's part of why she was effective at getting funding! And Theranos came at perhaps a peak of tech progress optimism, when anything felt possible. Holmes approached the pitch of the company like that of software startups (where if they have the idea and manpower they can surely just build it out), and *may have* been a true believer that the product could be made if she just found enough time and money. All to say, cases like these almost always have a lot of moving pieces, complexity and ambiguity / competing stories, which YouTube channels like the charisma kings almost invariably fail to capture even a fraction of. I guess it's inevitable that by reducing social interactions into just a guidebook of How To Be A Gigachad, they'll also oversimplify actual history. But it's a really unfortunate thing IMO because it promotes a fairy-tale-like understanding of reality without capacity for nuance or murky answers.
#thankyoubigJoel really sick how RDJ owned the libs there in that one. Really got em but good huh?
I remember stumbling on this channel years back and seeing red flags by how much they liked to use right-wing reactionaries as examples of Charismatic behavior to emulate. Some of the earlier ones I remember had videos centered around Trump and Jordan Peterson. I started to get the sense that it was about sanewashing strange behavior from conservative reactionaries. Notable here too that the video about Narcissists doesn't seem to mention Donald Trump.
Yay!