Tim Pool
Tim "socially liberal" Pool at dinner with
Brittany Pettibone,
James Allsup, and
Baked Alaska, surrounded by men making the
OKsign
[1]
“”some ***** troll: instead of saying the n-word let's do, idk, the emoji
anyone else: that's stupid
tim pool: *bouncing up and down, pointing* you fell for it! you fools! once again the left epic fails by reacting at all, in any way, to anything!
—
Shaun[2]
Tim Pool (1986–) is a
YouTube talker and former
Vice News reporter who describes himself as a "social liberal" who "support(ed)
Bernie Sanders".
[3] Despite this, his content is composed almost exclusively of rebuttal-free
alt-right talking points. Pool first gained notoriety reporting from the front lines of the
Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Scope[edit]
As of June 2019, Pool's YouTube channels "Tim Pool" and "Timcast" had over 522,000 subscribers and 86 million views
[4] and 411,000 subscribers and 165 million views, respectively,
[5] his
Twitter account 339,000 followers
[6] and his
Facebook account 62,000 likes.
[7]
Content[edit]
Some June 2019 headlines of Tim Pool's "socially liberal" content:
- "Feminists Outraged That The Line To The Mens Bathroom Is Shorter"[8]
- "Regulation Will END Censorship Online And Of Course Leftists Complain"[9]
- "Brett Kavanaugh Has Proven Himself Against The Leftist Outage Mob"[10]
- "Democrats And Far Leftists Are Tearing Each Other Apart, But Its Really Weird"[11]
- "Fake News Leftist Just Slipped Up Exposing Smear Campaign"[12]
- "Hacker Conference Has Bent The Knee To Leftist Outrage Mob"[13]
Some other fun headlines:
- "The Senate Is Being Briefed On UFOs, Its Time The Truth Came Out"[14]
- "Mainstream Media Smears Independent Outlet For Not Hating Trump Enough" (citing the Epoch Times)[15]
For 3 months prior, Pool did not release a video critical of any Republican, whose activities included supporting a ban on flag burning and supporting a war with Iran.
Methods[edit]
Pool has a tendency to agree at length with a right-wing talking point, then pivot to a softball question. Examples:
- "So, I was here just over a month ago, and I was here in France for about one week, and in that week, there were six different terror attacks, two of which were anti-capitalist, but four of which were Islamic terror. [....] We're seeing more instances where people come out, they yell, and they'll stab somebody, commit these crimes. So, I guess, is it, is immigration really the problem, or are you more concerned with this specific culture?"[16]
- "Look, as far as I'm concerned, if someone who is white feels like people are saying things that are anti-white, sure, you're allowed to feel however you want, and I really don't see the problem with that. However, calling you a white supremacist discredits you beyond just your concerns about what people are saying about white people. [No question asked][16]
Views[edit]
In a softball interview with
Brittany Pettibone, Pool repeated numerous right-wing talking points. For example, he waffled on supporting the wall: "it's fair to say that Trump, it's one of the issues he has called out, building the wall specifically will start to address, as many people believe, uh, on the right, it will address a lot of these issues". However, because he suggested that Islam is not
inherently violent, the video has a 3:1 like:dislike ratio and numerous far-right comments from his audience.
[16]
Pool claims that "If you believe in
white privilege you are by definition a racist".
[17] To defend this truly intellectual take, Pool clarified that "Racism is defined as thinking one race is superior[.] Superior means higher in status or rank[.] White privilege assume white people hold a higher status in the world[.]"
[18] As should be obvious, "racism" is the belief that "X race innately hold a higher status in the world, rather than due to social or economic conditions, which is what
white privilege describes. To close his take, Pool stated that "Shoes tell you more about privilege than race does."
[19]
In an interview with
Steven Crowder on
The Blaze, Pool claimed
social media has a
liberal bias.
[20] Pool believes that
Wikipedia maliciously mislabeled
Brittany Pettibone as a white nationalist.
[16]
Classic moments[
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- Pool claimed that the media "took the bait" on the ***** fashtag hoax. They didn't.[21]
- Pool jumped to support Jacob Wohl's allegation that Robert Mueller had raped Carolyne Cass.[22] Said allegation was a spectacular hoax.[23]
- On 5 November 2018, Pool claimed Republicans would retain a House majority, because the "polls are wrong".[24] He was wrong.
- Discussing the NPVIC
, Tim "liberal btw" Pool stated that "one of the problems with the Democrats and many people on the left, and it's true for everybody, but something I've seen repeatedly among left-wing activists and the far-left, is that they don't think about what the result will actually be". Pool also claims that, because (thus far) all NPVIC signatories are blue states, "this opens the door for California to give 55 electoral votes to a Republican should they win the popular vote. This plan will not help Democrats, it will only help Republicans."[25] In reality, the NPVIC only goes into effect once member states have 270 votes (an absolute majority) to avoid this exact scenario, because its designers weren't fukking idiots.
- In response to a joke tweet by a joke Twitter account,[26] Pool created a video titled "Socialist OUTRAGED Says Capitalism Is BAD Because We Don't All Own Factories"[27]
- Despite interviewing far-right personalities for two years, Pool doesn't know what the Great Replacement conspiracy theory is[28]
- Pool got owned by the /r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM subreddit.[29]