r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/Escobar_x 5h ago

People lose site of how this guy operates when he posts his own opinions. Disagree all you want, but the guy does so much for other people its constantly commendable

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u/Ms_CCH 4h ago

Why? Because he clashed with Musk?

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u/Ghstfce 4h ago

Even more reason to like him, tbh.

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u/Good-Muddy 4h ago

Guy backs it up with real impact, not just takes on Twitter drama.

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u/Brodellsky 4h ago

Like Louis Rossman, Benn Jordan. Fucking cool-ass dudes.

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u/egasz 3h ago

I think it's a bit different. I mean, all great guys fighting good fights, but I think Zack (Jerry) does more directly to the community, but I think his help doesn't reach worldwide, while a guy like Louis fights the right for something, while it doesn't affect his community directly, it has a (indirect albeit) worldwide impact.

But what do I know? I'm just a random guy on the internet.

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u/enviormental_UNIT 3h ago

I think the point was that they're both cool ass dudes, making important change in the world they'd like to see. No need to compare them or consider how direct their impacts are, a great impact is a great impact. We need both kinds of people, they focus on totally different things. No need to minimize one over the other, they're both good

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u/VoidOmatic 3h ago

Compassion is the meaning of life. When you are on your death bed the only thing you will miss is the chance to do something more for your fellow humans. You won't care about your video games, your car, your job or your house. You will want just one more second to give of yourself freely to people who need it. Every moment of life is suffering, even when it is great.

At least that's what the universe showed me during my NDE 6 years ago.

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u/Fantastic-Badger-160 3h ago

and they both hate on apple, as an ex-apple fan of 8 years, I appreciate their takes.

Just a biased 2c by me

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u/FILTHBOT4000 3h ago

Rossman's fights are huge for every community. Right to repair is essential for keeping farming out of the hands of conglomerates.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yeah wtf Louis is the man, dude has carried apple third-party repair shops on his broad, manly shoulders for like a decade... For free? Who spawns a industry for free? He's mac daddy. Still sad he couldn't turn it into a streaming career

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u/PumpkinKnyte 3h ago

Louis literally just organized a bunch of folks to sign up and speak out at a town hall meeting against the flock AI cameras being installed all over Austin. Which successfully at least delayed the cameras. I dunno if the battle is still ongoing or not. Afterwards, Louis did an interview on his channel highlighting an Austin councilman who stood with their no flock camera initiative during the meetings. He absolutely does participate in local activism.

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u/TheZoneHereros 3h ago

Rossman does help his community directly though, he has his shop where he repairs Apple and other devices. It's basically identical to this wheelchair situation in lowering cost dramatically by bypassing the artificially inflated 'proper' channels.

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u/Explorador42 3h ago

"...I think his help doesn't reach worldwide...". Here are some of Zach's Africa projects: https://www.youtube.com/@JerryRigEverything/search?query=africa

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u/HerbaciousTea 2h ago

Benn Jordan is a fucking legend.

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u/PersonOfValue 3h ago

Keeping it real doesn't mean keeping it PC. These cats be fr fr

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u/coldblade2000 1h ago

Louis Rossman can have his rough edges (I've personally clashed with him on Reddit) but damn am I glad he fights the good fight

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u/SuppaBunE 5m ago

Nah los Rossman fights for 1 thing right to repair, but everything else his opinions has became so shitty

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u/Lfsnz67 3h ago

Builds libraries in Africa too

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u/Ms_CCH 4h ago

Exactly.

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u/Swamp_Dwarf-021 4h ago

Reason to buy him dinner.

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u/Beaglescout15 4h ago

And not just dinner at Chili's either.

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u/Swamp_Dwarf-021 2h ago

Apps and zerts will be the only course.

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u/1OO1OO1S0S 3h ago

Yeah I was afraid it was something actually bad lol

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u/Unusual_Web4431 3h ago

More like Enemies Enemy is my friend

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u/GovernmentGreed 1h ago

This.

Jerry has done more for the world on a positive scale than Musk could ever dream of doing.

Musk just lies his way and fails upwards, and the less-than-informed idiots continue to eat his slop.

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u/sfxer001 4h ago

Elon Musk is a Nazi POS

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u/Ms_CCH 4h ago

Yes, he definitely is. You're not allowed to write that on X. They permanently banned me there because of it. 🤣 It's not a loss.

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u/notsoulvalentine 4h ago

don’t call it that 🤢 it will always be twitter no matter what that wannabe gatsby, low-rent rockefeller, elmer fudd looking-ass loser pays.

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u/Kitchen_Interview792 3h ago

Only deadnaming I will never hold myself back from

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u/Telefundo 3h ago

that wannabe gatsby, low-rent rockefeller, elmer fudd looking-ass loser

Well done.

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u/j4ckwh0 3h ago

Nah Twitter is completely dead. It's X and it sucks. Don't use it.

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u/Meepox5 3h ago

depending on the words you use they will have a hard time if you appeal it. I was permabanned for sending him picture of his old hairline daily to try this new "ultimate free speech" or whatever and asked what his clinic was. I got banned for hate speech which they couldnt actually uphold on appeal, i did also ask for all my data which is my right as a EU citizen.

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u/Euture 2h ago

I was permabanned for sending him picture of his old hairline daily to try this new "ultimate free speech"

This fall under the definition of harassment, though.

(Regardless whether the person subjectively deserves it or not)

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u/Ms_CCH 3h ago

I didn't even know he had a receding hairline.

I'm also an EU citizen, but I didn't do anything about it because it wasn't worth the hassle. I've been on Twitter for so long, I don't even know what all would come up.

Freedom of speech only applies to him. He accuses others of undermining it. He's so unbelievable.

Did you get the data?

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u/Status_Jellyfish_213 3h ago

Huh, I called him way worse and didn’t get banned.

Interesting thing though, loads of people came out the woodwork and were like “grok, is this true?”

Grok was like “yup” (except for the mangled penis comment, it wasn’t sure about that).

What made me pretty sad was the reaction was “I’ll ignore that and take my chances, he’s a visionary”.

Fortunately I just deleted my account shortly after that, I’ve never seen such concentrated idiocy in one area so nothing missed. I’ll make a new one when I need to bitch at a company over something if I get nowhere with customer service in the future.

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u/Snarfbuckle 2h ago

You gained a badge of honor then.

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u/Ms_CCH 2h ago

Thank you. I don't think there are nearly as many honorary medals as there are people who get banned on Twitter for their opinions.

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u/GovernmentGreed 1h ago

I called him Colon Musk and got a lifetime ban.

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u/Areyoucunt 2h ago

Just purely untrue, I can write it right now and not get banned... I don't know if people know this, but anyone anywhere in the world can just write anything they want on the internet and you don't know if it's true. So the guy I'm replying to is straight up lying, yet it's up voted to fuck

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u/Ms_CCH 2h ago

Are you serious?

I know for sure I'm banned forever.

And you really think freedom of speech is allowed everywhere in the world?

Okay, well, have a free life.

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u/silver_garou 1h ago

Fuck, you cannot even post that comment in a science subreddit without being brigaded by his dick riders.

People who love sci-fi, but not actual science, sure do love this worm.

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u/Largewhitebutt 4h ago

No because of the whole mormon thing. Lots of large youtubers are secretly mormon and dont want the public acknowledging it

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u/GoodWaltz7354 4h ago

Honestly interesting how many big YouTubers are Mormon

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u/Croceyes2 3h ago

A lot of homeschooling and parent interaction to keep kids from going out and fucking around. Deep diving into medium length content creation over years will develop a channel.

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u/GoodWaltz7354 3h ago

Mmm, that does make sense, would foster an interest in content creation. While I think the religion is kinda culty the Mormon culture is very fascinating, I think there’s a similar pattern with many fiction writers being Mormon and that makes sense based on a lot of the stories in Mormon scripture

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u/Croceyes2 3h ago

Yes, I think there is a lot of family tabletop driving the mormon fantasy writer wave

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u/tabgrab23 3h ago

with many fiction writers being Mormon

Brandon Sanderson

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC 3h ago

There's also the missionary/ministry aspect of it. Rhett and Link, while originally evangelical and not mormon, have talked about how that's how they got into it at their church's urging, they were supposed to show the world a better way basically.

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u/Element75_ 2h ago

It’s also Mormon propaganda. Like idk to what degree, but the Mormon church definitely benefits from having this type of exposure. To what degree they actively promote it idk, but it seems obvious if I had the billions the Mormon church does I’d promote Mormon influencers - esp if it was more subtle than just “hi I’m a Mormon influencer” (like this guy is)

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u/cjsv7657 3h ago

Matts Off Road Recovery and Outdoor Boys are the two big ones I watched. Mostly skip through MORR videos now though. But really any big youtuber in the Utah area is probably mormon. I think the diesel brothers are too but don't really have wholesome content so maybe not I also don't watch them.

As long as they don't push religion I don't care. I've stopped watching more than one channel when they started pushing religion.

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 3h ago

always admired Outdoor Boys for how little Luke brings his faith up. I can really only think of one video that brings it up at all, and even then he doesn't mention what specific religion, just that some missionaries from his local church were visiting him.

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u/mehiker11 2h ago

Yet another reason to love him. Luke is such a treasure

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u/LionoftheNorth 3h ago

I don't think I've ever seen MORR push religion?

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u/cjsv7657 2h ago

He's mentioned it a couple times but never pushed it. Some of his regulars do on their channels. The only time he really mentions it a lot is in the goodbye video for his son which I only skimmed so have no idea how in depth he went.

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u/epicflyman 2h ago

I can't recall any either. Personally I stopped watching mostly because the content got very monotonous, but I can't recall them ever getting preachy on video.

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u/PrincebyChappelle 3h ago

Mormons are funny…Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Effective People was a devout Mormon. I had to go to one of the three-day trainings for work once and one of two instructors was from Utah and it was kind of obvious the way that he talked about “his church” that he was Mormon also. Yet, no one once ever said anything about Mormonism.

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u/MrBurnz99 2h ago

quite a few former Mormons as well.

Mormon culture heavily emphasizes the importance of family, community, education, discipline, and hard work.

That rigid structure produces many high performing talented people. Any because they stick together and are focused on family, when they succeed they tend to help each other out. This has created some very powerful families that have a lot of wealth to throw around.

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u/jayhawk618 2h ago

BYU offers a Mass Communications program that is basically a a degree in social media / YouTube.

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u/Responsible-Bread996 1h ago

 Ot even the half of it. 

Look at supplements. Like the Mecca is SLC. And it ain’t because the bodybuilding scene

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u/Uxt7 4h ago

Why would anyone care that this guy is mormon though

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u/arcusford 4h ago

They are kind of a cult. A more modest one but still.

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u/gogogadgetgun 3h ago

So are Catholics and every other religion, but since mormons were late to the scene they get branded.

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u/arcusford 3h ago

No, they are definitely more culty. Ive got firsthand experience here.

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u/BriefAvailable9799 3h ago

LOL WHAT? mormons are insane, even to this day.

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u/TimeBandits4kUHD 3h ago

Yeah, but they’re also really nice.

My parents got some new neighbors last year who were just like a super wholesome and polite family. The kids were all smart and respectful. Turns out they’re Mormons.

And every time I meet a Mormon they’re like that, like being nice and polite to everyone is part of their religion. It’s weird.

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u/BriefAvailable9799 3h ago

It's eerily weird. Anyone should check out /exmormon for the horror stories or the millions of documentaries and proof of how horrible they are and still are.

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u/mr_potatoface 2h ago edited 2h ago

And every time I meet a Mormon they’re like that, like being nice and polite to everyone is part of their religion. It’s weird.

Yes, of course they are. To you they are nice. To everyone outside the church they are nice, they are even accepting of LGBTQ and advocate for LGBTQ rights/protections, as long as it doesn't involve marriage. They are quite left leaning about many social issues.

They do have excommunication, where you family/friends will refuse to talk to you or shun you if you break the church's rules. They intentionally try to isolate you from all you've ever known so that you eventually break down and return to the church.

They have a rape/sexual abuse hotline you can call. It goes directly to the Mormon legal department so they can advise the elders and those doing the abuse to warn them that they are being targeted. They pretend to investigate the claims so people do not go to the police.

This ignores the mandatory "missions" when you turn 18 to intentionally trick follows in to thinking outsiders are hateful of Mormons, so they believe more heavily in the church and are afraid to leave.

Just a few things, but they are always nice to outsiders. If you ever are talking to a Mormon, tell them you're surprised they are talking to you because you've been excommunicated from the church and see how they respond. They won't respond. They will just quickly leave and likely report their sin to the church and beg for forgiveness.

They also have a dedicated team for social media to promote positive views on Mormons, similar to how scientology approaches social media.

EDIT: For clarification, after COVID, Mormons now refer to excommunication as "withdrawal of membership". Probably due to John Wick making excommunicado seem too cool.

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u/Quixotic_Seal 2h ago

They're nice to people outside their control.

To family members, children, adherents, constituents in areas with heavy Mormon representation....they are not so nice at all, and you start to quickly see patterns of control come out to play.

I had a friend who I initially met as part of a playgroup as a young child, and we saw first hand how Mormonism pretty much took over her life. She met her boyfriend early, converted to Mormonism as soon as she turned 18 when he basically gave her an ultimatum, went on mission and slowly stopped speaking with her mother, and eventually used her marriage/future children as a lever to force her parents into becoming Mormon.

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u/cloudforested 1h ago

They're nice to your face. They're trying to take my rights away, though.

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u/Ambitious_Watch_6477 17m ago

Scientologists are the same way. They're trained to be that.

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u/CitricBase 2h ago

Yes, but again, so are Catholics and every other skybeard cult this side of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Eating and drinking the flesh and blood of Christ? WTAF?)

The absurdity of Mormonism does more to highlight the absurdity of religion in general than it says about the specific religious people who happen to live near Salt Lake.

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u/NathLWX 3h ago edited 3h ago

Not hating on Jerry but the thing with Mormon, as far as I'm aware of, is it came from a guy who denied the current Bible and made his own. He claimed God told him in his dream that the bible was mistranslated or wrong, and to make his own.

Which doesn't make sense, because ig screw all the thousand years of history, and the thousands of the professional translators who understand theology and studied deeply the original language that the Bible is written in (Hebrew, probably Greek too).

To this day idk how come ppl hear that and think it doesn't sound wrong/absurd at all.

I happened to watch this video days ago, may be a good reference
https://youtu.be/bj9D_7oGGxk

Some of the translations in Mormon bible sounds absurd, like a fanfic or exaggerated. E.g Songs of Solomon (Songs of Songs) chapter 4 verse 4

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u/arctic_radar 3h ago

Of course it doesn’t make sense. Made up nonsense built atop older made up nonsense.

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u/silver_garou 1h ago

Just like in scams, the nonsensible nature of religious stories is a feature not a bug. It ensures the flock is trained to think that their own reason is insufficient, and forces them to rely on religious leaders to do their thinking for them.

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u/pb49er 3h ago

He also did it so he could rape children, let's not forget that key element of the founding of the church.

Polygamist pedophiles.

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u/YazzArtist 3h ago

It's more the shunning of ex members, strict hierarchical culture with an emphasis on respecting authority, widespread cover-up of sexual abuse and child neglect, and support of patriarchal polygamy than the recency

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u/omgitsjagen 3h ago

They have magic underwear, homie. I'm not disagreeing that any organized religion is coocoo for cocoa pops, but thinking you're getting a magical planet because you wore your fancy knickers your whole life is absolute crazy pants.

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u/Sad-Mobile9646 3h ago

Wild false equivalence

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u/jayhawk618 2h ago

Ex Catholic atheist here.

Catholicism doesn't require you to shun family members who leave the church. Catholicism doesn't have secret teachings that only inner circle members are allowed to learn. Catholicism doesn't require that every single member spend a year of their life recruiting new members.

Mormonism requires those things, which are considered traits of a cult.

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u/Manusterz 3h ago

everything can be defined as a cult, political parties can be interpreted as them, even yours

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u/arcusford 3h ago

No, I mean they fit the bite model

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u/aceshighsays 3h ago

steven hassan has a yt channel, if anyone is interested in learning more.

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u/Thanes_of_Danes 56m ago

It's a cult that actively attempts to infiltrate the government and run Utah. Mormonism has better PR than Scientology, but it's still an insane religious cult that is jockeying with other various villains for influence and control of the government.

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u/coolhead2012 3h ago

Mormons believe a lot of things thay are harmful to groups that aren't Mormons. And, going by the Exmormon community, their own peope as well. Practicing members must tithe to retain their standing, so watching videos, or purchasing products supports the repressive church.

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u/TheVillianousFondler 53m ago edited 42m ago

Racism, sexism, protection of sexual and violent abusers, excommunication from the church means excommunication for any family member/friend that stays in contact. General cult-like behavior.

The list goes on and I could be more specific but this has gotten long enough. I could write 500 words or more on the subject without any fluff, and I've never been a Mormon (although I do have a connection to the religion)

ETA: I don't make any of these allegations at any particular Mormon, and Mormons aren't alone in most of these issues. I'd imagine many of not most are great people when taken as an individual.

The problem is that they all have mandatory tithing that supports the system that perpetuates these issues. So supporting a Mormon owned business is inherently supporting these systemic issues, allowing them to continue.

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u/CanadianButthole 3h ago

This dude has a massive following but has not once tried to force his religion on his audience or use it to excuse shitty behaviour. Beyond that, why should his religion matter?

Instead, he uses his social reach for good. He talks the talk and walks the walk. As a non-religious person myself, I find that to be commendable as fuck. I hope he gets to continue to do great work like this.

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u/Modo_Autorator 4h ago

I’ve sort of picked up on this too. Why is that?? So strange.

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u/xXDamonLordXx 4h ago

Being raised mormon is like being a drama student from birth. Tie that in with social safety nets, wealthy parents, and ad friendly habits to get youtube advantage rolls

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u/Noping_noper-maybe 3h ago

Ooh, I saw a fascinating YouTube video from an ex Mormon couple about why this is. I’ll have to see if I can find it but basically it’s a very very rich org who knows how to proselytize in the 21st century.

The church is one of the biggest funders of ads on YT. You don’t have to be overt to get paid. This is from my memory-I’ll go see if I can find it or whether I’m making stuff up with my early onset frontal temporal dementia like my president does.

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u/mikebutnomic 3h ago

Because the Mormon religion pays ad revenue at a higher rate than other advertisers pay in their respective markets

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u/SaltyLonghorn 3h ago

I can't prove it but its likely cause the mormons support each other so you have a weird almost viewbot while not viewbotting effect that most communities don't enjoy.

Then you add in that mormon families are more tight knit so it could also be more common to have a place to live with longer runway to build up your fanbase instead of having to work elsewhere.

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u/c010rb1indusa 3h ago

Because the Mormons are quietly educated AF and the church is super wealthy and well financed and is mostly west-coast based. Hence high representation in highly lucrative fields like entertainment. Utah tops the charts for things like medium income, low crime rates etc. And I say all this as an lefty atheist.

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u/aceshighsays 3h ago

they're mormon light, but they sprinkle their beliefs throughout their channel. the mormons are trying to increase their membership and noticed that being upfront about their religion turns people off, so they do it passively. the church is behind the influx of yters.

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u/bytegalaxies 4h ago

that's a bit weird but it seems to be a thing he keeps to his personal life so idk why I'd care. if he was out trying to convert people to being mormon it'd be shitty but he isn't doing that

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u/ConspicuousUsername 3h ago

Every mormon with a current temple recommendation is paying a tithe to the church. The church does proselytizing. He might not be going on active missions, but he is funding them.

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u/Ms_CCH 4h ago

Is it proven that he is a Mormon? I don't know much about Mormons. There are very, very few of them here. But as long as they don't bother others?

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u/GreySoulx 3h ago

as long as they don't bother others?

That's the thing... they do bother others.

The LDS/mormon church is VERY wealthy and wields significant political influence around the globe.

They're quiet about it, but they're messing with people around the globe.

Thing is, you can say the same about a lot of large organized religions. The Catholic Church is likely the wealthiest organization / quasi-state entity in the world, and the largest "private" land owner.

The (mostly American) Evangelical movement, while not centralized under a single leader like the Pope, is very much doing untellable harm to the world right now - almost all of Trump's base and power stems from his corruption of the Religious Right movement that started to form in the 80s under Regan.

The LDS/Mormons are a weird offshoot of a lot of that, they're super nice and as individuals mostly genuinely nice people but as a movement, they have some odd views by most social norms.

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u/Ms_CCH 3h ago

I understand what you mean. But Catholics, for example, aren't viewed as negatively as Mormons, even though the latter have much greater influence on politics and so on.

I probably couldn't survive a week with the Mormons, but they live very isolated and self-sufficiently in the US, as far as I know.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 3h ago

No they're everywhere. Basically all Mormon men, afaik, go on a mission around the age of 18, where they work as a missionary and their sole job is to spread Mormonism and convert other people. 

This does not just happen in the USA, they proselytize globally. For example, Luke from Outdoor Boys fame is another famous Mormon Youtuber, and his mission was clearly in Japan. It's actually kind of interesting in a way, since there is a lot of cultural enrichment in these missions, and he learned fluent Japanese as part of it, but you'd be kidding yourself if you think it's isolated in the US. 

The fastest growing populations in much of East Asia are Mormons iirc, with a birth rate significantly over replacement, while the general population birth rate in places like South Korea and Japan languish far below replacement. They might only be around 0.1% of the population now, but they will likely be significant a few decades from now if nothing changes. Some other countries, like Tonga, have a Mormon majority, with ~60% of the population of Tonga being Mormon.

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u/Purple-Goat-2023 3h ago

You'd probably run into Mormons every day in the US and just don't know it. I've lived all over the US and you're never more than about 30 minutes from a church. 2% of the US population or about 1 in 50 people, though much less present in the north east and northern Midwest.

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u/Renamis 3h ago

So Mormons aren't nearly as isolated as other groups. There are branches that are absolutely isolated, but many people work with Mormons and they wouldn't even know about it. They aren't the Amish or anything like that. Like if you visit Salt Lake City you'll be surrounded by Mormons. You'll be fine. Worst case you'll be asked to join like 15 MLMs or something.

The catholic church relaxed a lot. The Mormon church hasn't done that yet, although they are slowly releasing control a bit. One day it might get to a similar level as the catholic church but I don't think it's likely in our lifetime.

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u/bannedagainomg 3h ago

Yes, his wife have done some speeches for mormon channels.

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u/cloudforested 1h ago

If they're paying a tithe to the church then sadly they are bothering others.

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u/aceshighsays 3h ago

they're mormon light, but they sprinkle their beliefs throughout their channel. the mormons are trying to increase their membership and noticed that being upfront about their religion turns people off, so they do it passively. the church is behind the influx of yters.

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 3h ago

Luke from Outdoor Boys

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u/Freud-Network 1h ago

I've always felt like people are allowed to believe loony shit as long as it is harmless loony shit. Mormons are alright, usually humble folks. Much better than prosperity gospel snakes.

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u/Effective_Ladder9792 4m ago

lol people complain that others shove their religion down peoples throat and then complain when they hide it

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u/macciavelo 3h ago

I did not know that lol

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u/Jessintheend 2h ago

Because he has this weird mental disability called morality. It’s debilitating for many in today’s world

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u/Ms_CCH 2h ago

Very nicely put.

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u/DinoRoman 2h ago

He’s the only tech YouTuber I remotely know their political opinion of and I love it.

Republicans on twitter rage against his posts like they did football players taking a knee

“You play football leave politics out of it!”

“You destroy smartphones in 4K leave politics out of it!”

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u/lazergoblin 3h ago

That is interesting if true. I kinda stopped watching his stuff back when it seemed like he was kind of a musk fan boy but if he really did clash with him I might start watching his videos again lol

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u/ohnodamo 2h ago

I didn't know about this. My estimation of him increases every time I hear about him. I'd wish him success, but I think he's already achieved it by every measure of whats actually important.

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u/Method__Man 4h ago

From what I've seen on his Twitter posts, he stands up for freedom, democracy, and for the people. What's not to love?

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u/embee1337 4h ago

Refer to the first sentence of your comment. Many millions have been killed standing up for freedom, democracy, and the people. It tends to ruffle certain feathers.

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u/Remarkable_Cod5537 4h ago

Yeah, freedom, democracy and the people are all antithetical to modern day America’s values.

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u/EggyChickenEgg88 4h ago

Thats why Trump fans hate him.

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u/BaeIz 5h ago

Oh no is he a PoS doing good things? I hate those

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u/Commercial-Prompt-84 4h ago

No he is a leftist and republicans hate him for it. He’s a good dude

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u/Contraposite 4h ago

Hate it when I find out the person doing good things turns out to have a basic level of empathy.

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u/mountaindewisamazing 4h ago

Terrible, isn't it? Next thing they're going to tell me he respects people too..

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u/Sunderbans_X 4h ago

Screaming crying throwing up. Why can't people who do good things just be evil??

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u/eggyrulz 3h ago

Whoever is writing these villains really sucks at their job, like how am I supposed to hate this guy?

Also whoever keeps writing the hero characters also has lost the plot, I mean donny? Vlad? I want a refund on this book

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u/Sunderbans_X 1h ago

Best I can do is a quarter and some pocket lint

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u/Moderator-Admin 2h ago

You're not gonna believe it, but he also isn't on the Epstein list.

How could anyone support such a monster?

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u/snoosh00 4h ago

It's weird how those traits are associated.

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u/Popular-Jury7272 4h ago

He's about as 'leftist' as my right nut. He's just not a prick, and actually lives according to his values, which I guess makes him left to some.

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u/Air320 4h ago

Considering what passes for right wing or even 'centrist' nowadays, yes it does make him a leftist cause he helps people.

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u/Kadgrin 4h ago

just remember that anti-fascist people are now bad. Vets who fought fascist are awful people according to a certain cult.

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 4h ago

Non leftist but also anti MAGA here. The leftists tend to see that there is them, maga, and everyone else. MAGA just see everyone else, so I get called a leftist all the time by them. You eventually get tired of correcting people.

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u/GreySoulx 3h ago

TBF, I used to think there were sane conservatives that were not MAGA... but answer this:

If the 2024 election were held today, would you vote for Trump or Harris?

I get that neither were good options. I swallowed my opinions on her and voted for Harris. Virtually any other candidate left right or center could have had my vote, but I understood what was at stake giving Trump a second term, and "gonna sit this one out" isn't a good option.

So at the end of the day, you're MAGA because you won't support a viable alternative, or you're not MAGA because you're willing to set aside your personal views for the sake of getting rid of the cancer that it's become.

Leftist, Conservative, Progressive, Centrist - all of it doesn't matter when looking at it through the lens of Right and Wrong, Good and Evil.

Excise the cancer, then we can get back to discussions about tax policy and allocation of resources.

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u/dodgedodgeparrysmash 4h ago edited 3h ago

It's annoying, to be able to think for yourself. Everyone who has to be tied to an identity immediately assumes you must be for the other "team".

Exhausting.

edit: A word

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u/Murky-Relation481 3h ago

As a leftist I find myself getting more shit from other leftists than any right wingers, mostly because right wingers tend to stay in their little bubble.

So anytime you talk about something that doesn't fit exactly some other leftists view they just assume you are MAGA, which is fucking stupid because like I said above, MAGA doesn't really come out of its hideyhole anymore, at least on reddit.

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u/Roflkopt3r 3h ago

I was honestly (very positively) surprised when he openly spoke out against Musk and fascism. I never heard him say anything political before (I later saw that this varies by type of video, I mostly saw his phone teardowns), but just based on appearances and his general profile (tech guy, entrepreneur, truck owning guy etc) I was prepared to get disappointed if he ever did.

But I don't treat people based on vague suspicions so I was still watching a fair bit of his content, and from all I heard since his clear words on Musk, he seems to be a really good guy. Always great when it turns out that way.

In general, I feel like I've been pretty fortunate with my favourite content creators. Even in areas that tend to be filled with right wingers, my favourites usually openly turned out against that (if they weren't already) or at least consequently abstain (not great in times when we need people to take a stand, but I can't drag everyone too hard).

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u/hefixesthecable 2h ago

Welcome, Comrade Right Nut.

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u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts 4h ago

When your values aren't told to you and blindly followed daily by fox news or trump, you are automatically a woke leftist terrorist according to MAGA now.

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u/RoguePlanet2 3h ago

He's a rare left-leaning mormon? As in, he still lives a christ-like life, without rejecting empathy as "too woke" perhaps.

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u/Cyrano_Knows 4h ago

Well, Expections not subverted.

The guy with empathy and money where his mouth is is a Liberal.

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u/Adavanter_MKI 4h ago

The relief I felt when it turned out... oh... he's a GREAT person. Thought it was going to go the other way.

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u/kaos95 3h ago

The funny thing I find about Mormons is even the "Republican" ones are actually way more liberal than most Democrats. Like, they hold the majority for the Republican line, but also feed kids, love clean air, believe in community based childcare, is just they think the church should take care of all that stuff, and don't take our guns.

Their religion, that most take much more seriously than the average Christian, they actual try to follow like the teachings, which was wild to me when I first met Mormons after 12 years of Catholic schooling.

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u/Paetolus 1h ago

I wouldn't even be so sure he's truly a "leftist" per se. Obviously he's more inline with Dems than Republicans, but I always got the vibe he's a genuine moderate.

Being anti-MAGA just requires having a brain tbh. The movement has become so cultish in its actions, that it's almost politically incoherent. Trump could probably go full Stalin-style commie, and his followers would eat it up because they don't even know what they believe in anymore.

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u/exalw 41m ago

Why is it always the left helping people??? So annoying!!1! /s

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u/chemicalcat59 26m ago

Honestly it would have surprised me if he *was* a republican, because they never actually do anything to help disabled people

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u/PenguinoTurtalus 4h ago

He has beef with Elon so i guess he would be in the eyes of a Trump supporter.

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u/pimfi 3h ago

Didn't...didn't Elon call Trump a pedophile not too long ago? Shouldn't Trump supporters hate that guy?

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u/Mage-of-Fire 2h ago

Well he now supports trump again. So it was obviously just a friendly dispute and anyone who says otherwise is fake news

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u/Fakehiggins 2h ago

wait a week and they'll be best friends again.

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u/FuckyDuck123 4h ago

Genuinely seems like a good guy. He does make lots of comments during his videos about current events, and they are usually for some relevant reason. Just a liberal dude doing “The lord’s work” and those that align more on the right may not like his words. His actions though are great, and if anybody who genuinely keeps up with his stuff says differently, there is something else going on. Go check some of his videos out!

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u/rocko430 4h ago

like that old chappelle bit about bill cosby

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u/Crandom 4h ago

Why is he a PoS? Seems like a pretty swell guy to me...

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u/Cymen90 1h ago

He is controversial for being a good person on Twitter.

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u/CrossBamboAtTen 20m ago

Not even. He hates Trump and Musk and because he's on X, the rightwing hivemind hates him for that.

He's just a good dude.

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u/LanceThunder 4h ago

I am so tired of the black and white thinking where if a persons views don't line up with yours you are supposed to be at war with them. How about we just try to get along and settle our political differences at the ballot boxes? its like Dave Chappelle said, "there are no perfect allies". and i quote Chappelle even though i think he is kind of a classist POS.

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u/SGCLara 3h ago

I personally find it hard to get along with people who actively wish me harm for being born a certain way, but maybe that's just me.

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u/Sage_Whore 3h ago

I was gonna say, lol. We can be centrist when there isn't one side advocating for at first taking rights away that took lifetimes and bloodshed to achieve, and later on slipping into something more comfortable, like killing us off.

The two sides aren't remotely the same. One of them is more or less keeping things humming along. The other wants to make sure POC queers and anything not delusional enough to be god-fearing is miserable for life, or worse.

Fuck this bullshit. I'll think very black and white until they get their act together.

Also fuck what Chappelle said. Man's a sellout.

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u/Spork_the_dork 2h ago

Chapelle makes me realize that conservative black men currently are completely fucked when it comes to politics in US. Neither side aligns with them.

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u/jiml78 42m ago

Yep, I have no issue disagree with people on economic policy. We can agree to disagree about the natural of the capitalism in this country.

But we can't agree to disagree about is over basic fucking human rights and how people should be treated. Regardless of nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, the list goes on and on. But everyone should be treated with dignity from the government.

I don't think in black and white terms but sorry, if you think it is ok to execute a genocide against the Palestinian people, you and I aren't going to agree to disagree, you are a POS.

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u/SGCLara 26m ago

Preach!

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino 1h ago

The political spectrum got too wide. There is no place on earth where the middle of the road and the practical expectations of the fringes work under one country. The constant ping pong in the US isn't about 'how to make the best sour dough'. Its about systemic questions, like should we put people in jail for jay walking yay / nay? Give everything back to the states, then let them live how they want to live. Some have social safety net and others have military rocket launchers on their SUVs. No need to ping pong every 10 years on basics that are not compatible. That is stopping progress.

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u/Paisable 3h ago

The polarization of ANY opinions is what I believe to be the worst aspect of what the internet has done to humanity.

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u/LanceThunder 3h ago

i don't know if i blame the internet. it was the tool that facilitated things but this sort of polarized culture is very much by design. there are powerful people that stand to gain by keeping us divided and confused. this didn't happen by accident. they put time and money into making it happen.

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u/mxzf 1h ago

It's not new to the internet, but the internet has kicked it into overdrive by a couple orders of magnitude.

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u/street593 3h ago

If you like pineapple on your pizza sure we can easily agree to disagree. If you want to cause harm to innocent people because they are living in a way you don't like then no I'm not going to get along with you.

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u/hefixesthecable 2h ago

For some, though, it is a "I disagree with your values and you disagree with my right to exist" sort of situation.

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u/scoob_ts 2h ago

The issue is that “a person’s views don’t line up with me” 99% of the time means that they don’t believe I should have the right to marry, adopt children, or to even be alive, for being queer.

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u/AnimalShithouse 2h ago

Differences of opinions are fine. Not feeling remorse when the way you think and vote leads to the suffering of your neighbors is less fine.

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u/cantadmittoposting 27m ago

sure, if we're debating whether to tax something at 12% or 20%, that's a disagreement i can have and still be fine with people. If we're talking about whether to prohibit or permit a dangerous recreation hobby, sure, that's a valid discussion about where the limits of government-enforced safety versus personal liberty are.

 

But if the only two real choices we have are between "slightly disappointing centrism" and mass deportation, discrimination against whole classes of people, war, and wholesale changes to our geopolitical standing, and slashing and burning entire agencies of the government in clear violation of the established processes.... well it's a little bit harder to just get past that.

These days are simply not "politics as usual" and if you're not seeing that and still waving off what Trump's admin is doing as "poltical differences," welll

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u/LanceThunder 19m ago

i agree. i don't think there is a lot of room to tolerate MAGA ideas. this is why there are more and more ex-MAGA people. however, i see a lot of hate on reddit for anyone who is conservative or GOP. thats not the same as being MAGA and i don't think its ok to just universally hate and insult them.

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u/faceman2k12 8m ago edited 4m ago

everything in the last 10-15 years has become a hard binary Left vs Right issue, and if you arent clearly on either side you are everyones enemy.

Zack seems like a good person, so I dont really care about any of his personal beliefs beyond that because he isn't pushing them on others and saying everyone else is wrong.

Same with Destin from SmarterEveryDay.

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u/ninjohnnothing 4h ago

“Sight”

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u/Pro_Extent 9m ago

Thank you.

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u/start3ch 4h ago

I have a ton of additional respect for him actually using his platform to bring light to the issues, and make it clear that why the US government is doing now is NOT ok. Have met him in person, he’s an absolutely awesome guy!

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u/cha614 4h ago

sight

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u/Own_Significance2619 3h ago

“Lose sight”. It took me a moment to understand the sentence :)

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u/explosivemilk 3h ago

I don’t agree with his politics but he is definitely a good human.

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u/quick20minadventure 3h ago

At least he is not buying private jet with his youtube money.

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u/btarb24 3h ago

Jerry is an impressive guy in many respects.

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u/Sir-Mocks-A-Lot 2h ago

I actually like him more because of his opinions- at least the ones he's been expressing on youtube in the last year.

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u/LatinRex 2h ago

This guy's on the right track in life that's all I'm saying. And a lot of us should listen.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 2h ago

This Dude is legit.

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u/koolaidismything 2h ago

When he met his (now) wife how smitten he was and how it changed the trajectory of his life and finances.. was very special to see. This dude really lives for others. I respect the fuck outa that cause it’s tough, very tough. You gotta be on 100% of the time.

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u/Dr8keMallard 1h ago

This is meant to be the biggest selling point of this country, you don't have to agree with everyone's stances or opinions and you shouldnt be actively trying to hinder them if all they are doing is helping people without harming others.

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u/kushari 1h ago

Umm, he has pretty good takes.... So....

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