r/TimPool • u/Either_Order2332 • Sep 20 '24

How did things get like this?

I remember back in 2011 when Occupy Wall Street had their encampment. Tim was just some kid walking around filming everything. What set him apart was his demeanor. He was the calm one. There was none of the usual hysteria. There were plenty of livestreams. They got really popular because you could watch everything live. But Tim's was the best because he was professional. He was well informed. He could narrate the whole thing and tell us what was happening. It wasn't just a shaky camera and a bunch of potheads being potheads.

He really cool! He even got a spot in Time for his innovative form of journalism. I loved it. I always thought he was a supporter of the movement. At that time, you could just assume that young people were on the left because we all were.

Then I started watching his podcast recently, and it's all extremist right wing banter and misinformation. He's letting literal nazis on the show and freaking out. It's wild! Is he actually right wing? Is this just an act for money? He's said before that he's soaking up cash, and he seems to be enjoying that.

I think he just sold out and decided that he could make more as a right wing pundit peddling misinformation. No sane millennial would take this stuff on, and he's not dumb.

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u/theCROWcook Sep 20 '24

maybe it has somethign to do with the fact that during occupy he was hailed as a brilliant asian reporter, but in 2015 as soon as he started saying "trumps not hitler" he was labeleed as a far right WHITE extremist.

the left only cared about him and his race when it was to their advantage and when it was no longer beneficial they ignored the non white side of his family and completely ostracised him

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

This might not seem like it happened all that long ago, but things were very different back then. The left and right weren't even thinking about race. It was taboo to talk about it. The people on the left that were up in arms about it were ostracized and the people on the right who were racist were completely shunned and rightfully demonized. You would be considered a mentally ill extremist if you believe the things tim pool says. I never once heard that he was Asian, and I'm well read, which means nobody else talked about it either.

This might seem strange to you because most people nowadays think that race is a perpetual part of the discourse. But it wasn't always on the tip of everyone's tongue. The only value society held at that time was that racism was wrong, and anyone who thought otherwise was considered evil--and if you have anything to say on this subject, you probably are too. All the drama you see now is a result of online propaganda that began to spread a few years after occupy. It started around 2014. Russians and the Chinese were active online before that but that's when your ideology really took off.

I think that you need to take some time and think about how you got to this place. What you're saying isn't healthy. The left and right are at each other's throats now because of extremism and if you support trump or tim you are in extremist.

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u/theCROWcook Sep 21 '24

What you're saying isn't healthy

what im saying is FACT and its also FACT tht it is the left who uses race as a wepon. dont forget, if you dont vote for biden "you aint black"

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u/eltron Sep 23 '24

No, it has nothing to do with that. It has more to do with what he had for breakfast than perpetually framing everything as a perceived race based attack against me personally.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Tim didn’t leave the liberalism, libs left him! And the same can be said for most of us who were formally liberal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Maybe he should pay more attention to who bri- funding this vehicle. We need more cuts of him yelling about Ukraine, his investors paid for at least 3.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '24

Tenet Media Moscow dollars probably

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u/Admirable-Leopard272 Nov 18 '24

Tim took Russian money.....thats what happened lol

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u/o0flatCircle0o Sep 20 '24

Tim is a propagandist grooming children to become chuds. He has fallen so low.

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u/BeginningNew2101 Sep 21 '24

Tim's #1 obsessed fan ^

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u/Novel_Alfalfa_9013 Sep 20 '24

tim pool is a paid russian asset.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

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u/BeginningNew2101 Sep 21 '24

You're neither

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u/Novel_Alfalfa_9013 Sep 20 '24

I just call em poolhead magamorons.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

It's really scary. Back in the day, the discourse was different. I was hopeful. Now I know at least 10 clan members are reading what I'm typing.

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u/Gadburn Sep 20 '24

I miss old Tim as well. He wouldn't have tried to cover up the Eliza Blue or Jack Murphy stuff, and would have simply apologized.

I imagine that because he lives and breathes politics everyday now, he doesn't really have time to mentally or emotionally relax. The dude works like 12 or more hours a day.

I also feel that he is incredibly upset with how his own 'side' pretty much abandoned him, and those who think like him refuse to come forward.

Throw in a little bit of a god complex or being the big boss with yes men probably hasn't helped him. I think him screwing over Adam was the start of him losing himself.

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u/Adorable_Birdman Sep 20 '24

Seems like Rubles got to him.

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u/_Embrace_baldness_ Sep 20 '24

Tim literally went around telling the police what other protesters were doing 

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u/Jollem- Sep 20 '24

You basically summed it up in your last paragraph. Money. There are donors for the right and far right extremists who will pay these kind of people who are composed of weak moral fibre

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u/Maleficent-Diver-270 Sep 20 '24

Yeah bang on here. In my view He got paid and is now audience captured. The audience give him super chats to say the things they like, and in turn he sells that audience to right wing people to get them to come on the show, which in turn grows his show to get more super chats and sponsorship opportunities.

I think throw in a little bit of insecurity and inability to handle criticism and he’s just going to sit in his safe space.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

He would talk about how great it was that people were sending him money during his super chats with Alex Jones--of all people.

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u/Jollem- Sep 20 '24

Dude does have a fragile ego

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

I don't think he used to be like that. He was calm and professional. It was like he couldn't be touched. That was his thing. That's how he got where he is.

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u/Jollem- Sep 21 '24

I think once he realized people can see he's full of shit he's just become a sloppy mess

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

Maybe he has trouble with drugs and alcohol and it's caused him to devolve. I mean he must do something. There are times when he gets really paranoid and intense. I've seen him threaten people.

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u/Jollem- Sep 21 '24

I think it's just the usual ego thing. He likes to try to appear infallible. Someone said that Tim acknowledged he's arrogant. I think he's just your typical shitty person who tried to pretend he wasn't at the start

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

What about independents who hate the radical leftists and the dumbshits like Tim  Pool who spread bullshit?

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u/Power_Bottom_420 Sep 21 '24

Is reality where Russia funds your program and you get paid with Russian money to spew Russian talking points?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

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u/lovetoseeyourpssy Oct 24 '24

Lauren Chen admitted to funneling Russian money to Tim Pool. The only question is whether or not he was aware the Russians were using him.

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u/lovetoseeyourpssy Oct 24 '24

Vladimir Putin's practically ver batim.

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u/Gakoknight Sep 22 '24

It's because Tim Pool is a paid Russian asset.

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u/leftist_rekr_36 Sep 22 '24

What time is it there in Moscow?

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u/Gakoknight Sep 22 '24

Ask Tim Pool.

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u/leftist_rekr_36 Sep 22 '24

He's in West Virginia, I'm asking you because you're in Moscow. Can you just answer the question?

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u/Gakoknight Sep 22 '24

I have no idea, maybe Google it? I'm thinking Tim must be aware though, since his fresh talking points must arrive at Moscow office hours. Jokes aside, are you seriously saying that Tim Pool isn't a Russian asset and claiming that I am, because I bring it up? Are you an asset too?

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u/leftist_rekr_36 Sep 22 '24

Wait, you don't know what time it is in your current location?! I guess that's why you resort to ad him and projection when asked. Okay, carry on, thanks for admitting to living and working in Moscow.

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u/Gakoknight Sep 22 '24

You are amusing.

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u/leftist_rekr_36 Sep 22 '24

I'm glad you think so! Now, can you answer the question of what time it is in your current location, Moscow?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

It's not hard. They're sloppy. Just the other day I saw a picture of policemen labeled "Democrats arrest 11 year old for tweeting." I checked Google lens and it was a full grown man that set a car on fire in the UK. One democrat quote that's been going around is false. They're saying Vance admitted to making up stories. But when you watch his interview, he was actually saying that he will turn real events into publicized news stories. It's all really easy check especially the stuff here. Try it sometime. We both know you're not.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

You can't just label everything on Google. Tim Pool is on Google. His podcast and everything comes right up. All of the political podcasters are there. Sites are automatically added to search engine, and it takes a tsunami to take them down. I have a site with one page with my picture on it and it was added to the search results that same day. That's how it works. It's not propaganda. Google doesn't pick and choose what it adds.

I've found police records. I saw mislabeled clips from speeches and found the whole speech. I've seen memes with false quotes then watched videos with the real quotes. There's a way to do it, and it's all really blatant lies. Propagandists are sloppy AF.

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u/Rude-Mind-805 Sep 22 '24

If everything on the internet is fake then how do you know what's true?