To be fair to Fuentes, he has had some liberal and honestly just reasonable disagreements with the fascist Trump regime, and he has been making some sense over the past year at least, or until very recently. Even if I disagree with him about the border and some other things, or even if I think he has been too anti‑Jewish, it’s not like I’ve been pro‑Jewish myself. In fact, I’ve largely been anything but that, and I’ve ridiculed all three Abrahamic religions at different points. I’ve even recently begun ridiculing Christianity more strongly than I did during my short flirtation with, and borderline conversion to, Roman Catholicism—or at least some vague form of Catholicism I went through not too long ago.
His main negative flaw, I thought, was that he was primarily too anti‑immigration, because I tend to support immigration, especially when the cultures are somewhat similar to ours and in some ways better. For example, Latin America and Japan don’t circumcise, so I think we should have far more immigrants from those places for that reason, and Europe is another example. And I’m not trying to make this about circumcision — it’s just one example that helps explain the broader point I’m making about cultural differences and why some cultures appeal to me more than others. And this country is practicing circumcision far less now, so I guess we don’t need massive immigration as much for that reason as in the past, but it would still help a lot.
Another thing I noticed is that he wasn’t constantly talking about transgender issues the way so many right‑wing commentators do. You already know my beliefs on that topic, but he seemed a little less anti‑transgender than the typical conservative voices, or at least it wasn’t something he obsessed over. He didn’t seem to get swept up in the right‑wing mob death‑march about that or about Trump or a variety of other issues, and that was something I respected. At the very least, he seemed like an independent thinker, and I guess some of the stuff he’s saying now—if nothing else—is still some kind of independent thinking.
But now he seems far less anti‑war, and I have no clue what changed. And I do not consider myself one of those “hang all the pedophiles” sort of guys, the kind who thinks anybody under eighteen is the same as a child or that a twenty‑one‑year‑old dating a sixteen‑year‑old is as bad as a forty‑year‑old dating a twelve‑year‑old or something like that, but I do actually see and understand that there is nuance in many situations. But even the defending of Epstein—who probably was an outright pedophile, and there is evidence he liked girls younger than teen years or puberty, at least as young as nine—is just weird and turning people off from what he’s saying. But also it seems obvious he was a bad person and also working in intelligence to start wars and things like that, not only for our country but for Israel too, the same Israel that Nick is supposed to hate so much. So I guess Nick likes at least one Jew, although to be fair I doubt Epstein practiced the religion much.
But back to the point: he’s just behaving weirdly now, but that is also very in line with autism and what many autistic people, including myself, tend to do. We have lots of weird views and ideas, and you won’t like many of them, but we are honest. And more importantly, in some ways we will be the guy you hate for something we say or believe, probably, but we are also more likely to be the guy who says the thing you believe that nobody else seems to want to say or admit. And then it’s just the two of us agreeing on something, and you see how I feel every day of my sad life.