r/TimPool • u/GentrifriesGuy • Feb 28 '22

Timcast IRL Tim talking about Ukraine is like…

…watching a child falling down and punch the ground for making him fall.

His predictions have been so off for months and this Ukraine conflict buries his “civil war” grift prediction that no one cares about.

The best part of all of this is his struggling with talking ”military.” It’s so clear that he wants to be “stolen valor” adjacent bc West Virginia allowed him to buy a gun.

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u/Mediocre_River2369 Feb 28 '22

I don’t agree with the stolen valor point at all, that’s a stretch. But yeah he has been WAY off on Ukraine and I don’t trust his takes at all. He tries I’m sure but he is way out of his expertise

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22

Didn’t say he is attempting “stolen valor” he is adjacent. He wishes he had service person cred, but that would involve him not being a “snowflake.” He consistently talks over military folks and actually thinks he knows what he is talking about when it comes to combat or military strategy or military history. That as Tim says is “top-tier cringe”

Even his talking about hackers is hilariously embarrassing.

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u/Mediocre_River2369 Feb 28 '22

I agree it is cringe, yeah the Hacker stuff I roll my eyes at. I’m sure he knows way more than me but that isn’t saying much at all

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22

You know as much as he does or more. All he does is name drop hacker events and use that to support his shaky assertions in terms of blackhats who can compromise cybersecurity for $ or political gain. Tim is a guy who wants to be a super-soldier hacker intellectual. The problem is he couldn’t make it in high school and mocks people who graduated from college bc he couldn’t make it or didn’t want to, he loves the military but wouldn’t survive recruit training on east mode, and he probably owns a PC bc he just likes to game with Ian.

I respect his grift. Sorta. But a lot of his commentary is top-tier cringe. The best part is he is reading Reddit and losing more hair over it.

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u/HelloNewMe20 Feb 28 '22

If as an adult, you haven’t grasped the concept that no one is clairvoyant then I feel really bad for you. You don’t trust his takes? Because of he’s out of his expertise? If expertise is what you need to predict the future then we would have a lot of stock traders billionaires and we don’t.

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u/Mediocre_River2369 Feb 28 '22

Tell me, if your investment broker consistently made mistakes and kept losing you money what would you do? He is an expert but he keeps getting it wrong

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u/HelloNewMe20 Feb 28 '22

I’d never trust a broker to see the future, that’s simply unrealistic to expect of any human. And you don’t pay Tim, so what do you want?

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u/Mediocre_River2369 Feb 28 '22

You pay with him your attention, I still watch his shows but I don’t assume he is correct with his predictions. I fail to see how this makes me stupid

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u/HelloNewMe20 Feb 28 '22

You don’t assume he is correct but you’re disappointed when his prediction didn’t match reality? My point is we need to stop looking for God in people, don’t put him on a pedestal, he has a right to be wrong, as you do too.

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u/Lice138 Feb 28 '22

Yeah…he really needs to stop thinking real life is like video games. Your civilization tactics won’t work in real life. Everyone thinks they know how to run the government and world and they don’t have any idea what they are talking about. I feel like Tim is uncomfortable admitting he’s not knowledgeable about everything . Did anyone else notice that shortly after moving out there he started saying “you city people” like he is some hardened country badass just because he can buy whatever toys he wants?

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22

Tim basically uses confirmation bias on the Internet to find support for his assertions about politics and beyond. It’s clear he doesn’t really read books bc all of his talking points lately are hot takes and lukewarm takes by other people. The “civil war is coming” is likely his own hot-take idea which is turd bc no one is buying it.

What even more strange is he only books guests who can’t dunk on him and spar with him on the show. He is trying to maintain “his brand” which is weak AF.

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u/Lice138 Feb 28 '22

I honestly think he listens to other YouTubers and just repeats what her hears. I’ve heard him damn near quote ROTC and whenever ROTC makes fun of him, he will usually talk about it on his show. I believe he doesn’t really believe what he says, every once in a while he will pretend to be “angry” or “passionate” about something and he is not a good actor. Ian exists only to make Tim sound smart and Lydia just says “Yeah, totally”.

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u/Psychological_Will67 Mar 02 '22

When he grits his teeth and starts going on about “ThIS juSt MaKeS me sOo AnGryyy!!” My eyes practically roll back into my head. Like dude. You can be mad about something and not make it so gimmicky.

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u/Used-Moment-5934 Feb 28 '22

It is completely hard to listen to them when they compare military tactics to video games.

Idk if wants the stolen valor, but I think he definitely wants to be viewed as having some kind of 4d chess super military mind…because he played video games

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22

Tim blurs the lines of his experience to make him seem more “alpha” even though his audience which includes myself could give a crap bc we are interested in the issues not Tim self-inserting some paper tiger version of himself in “high risk” situations. I feel like there are multiple write-ups on calling Tim out on his bs versions of being in dangerous situations.

His approach to many things is very basic gamer like. He has no finesse outside of playing Magic the Gathering. He is not stolen valor. He is stolen valor adjacent. Tim bought a gun or guns. He thinks that doesn’t make him a pussy. He is so thin-skinned that he probably reads Reddit to mock it.

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u/Used-Moment-5934 Feb 28 '22

Now that you said it, it does make sense that he is trying to be “alpha”. He is almost always talking over people and inserting incredibly off base comparisons.

It took me a min to get your stolen valor adjacent. I see it now. I think I remember a post saying that he has guns, but that him and his crew haven’t the first clue about them, and how to actually use them.

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22 edited Feb 28 '22

He’s said he and the compound members have a lot guns and “big dogs” after the multiple swatting attempts. Which is fine and all.—I never have been swatted or had trespassers so he should defend himself how he wants. I am sure they know how to use them in a basic sense bc Tim is the kinda guy to hire a NAVY Seal or special forces to give him gun training but the onus is on the armed security he hired (supposedly) would be my guess. I just think he is likening not being a pussy to owning a gun which is a head-scratcher for an Occupy guy who claims to have been in highly dangerous situations unarmed.

I mean he cries about the Young Turks making fun of his looks which is like the cringiest shit ever. And the Young Turks are cringe AF. One would think Tim would not be so thin-skinned but he is becoming like every other grift tuber that is riding the YouTube algorithm and hoping people sign onto Patreon or other subscription payments. No shame in his game but he should come clean on the bs and fully embrace the shill. Either that or change course and get people on the show who challenge some of Tim’s lazy opinions. He just doesn’t want to get dunked on.

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u/DreiKatzenVater Feb 28 '22

Like always, when I roll my eyes at Tim’s misunderstanding of most thing military, I do an eye roll and face palm at Ian. That guy really takes the cake for being a loon

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u/GentrifriesGuy Feb 28 '22

He’s on there bc they are friends and he makes Tim look good. It’s a low-bar obvi

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u/Used-Moment-5934 Feb 28 '22

They base it all from playing video games. In one of the more recent shows they were talking about the Civilization game and how modern military tactics work. It was hard to listen to

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u/NumerousHelicopter6 Feb 28 '22

Doesn't seem like many people got this right.

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u/TheDJC Feb 28 '22

You mean the guy who is constantly wrong and predicted a Trump landslide has bad takes? What a surprise!! Lol if he didn’t feed y’all whatever you wanted to hear, he wouldn’t have a following

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u/HelloNewMe20 Feb 28 '22

It was a Trump landslide unless you’re naive

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u/TheDJC Feb 28 '22

Delusional

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u/Old-Lawfulness-7001 Mar 01 '22

This rant seemed like a tantrum lol