Hi! We're a fairly diverse plural system with various origins and interests! ADHD, autism, likely BPD. Uhm... Yeah, gonna work on this a bit more soon?
it's so fuckin weird that I still get james somerton related videos recommended to me on youtube but none of it seems to be about how his co-writer is a conspiracy nut
I had to open my big mouth huh now everyone won't shut up about somerton again like I am sorry this guy is not interesting enough to be worth all this time and energy
this is based on some of the stuff that I got out of the video by Todd in the Shadows. I presume it comes from his co-writer based on the fact that this kind of stuff is not plagiarized so much as made up. The "corporations are spending money to bury research into products that would actually help you" stuff is very intellectually questionable, as is any of the stuff about sexy nazis.
Ahhhh, yeah, that stuff. Nods. There is, like much propaganda, a tiny grain of truth in the first one, regarding how profit motive can often kill useful things, for instance, pre-COVID it was a common lament of researchers and science journalists that it was nearly impossible to get funding for vaccine research, as they were largely seen as unprofitable… not to mention the numerous creators who had their art buried by the profit motive one way or another. I could swear I had another example, but I can’t remember it.
The Nazi thing was just weird, especially when it tried to characterize the Soviets as sexless blobs whose physical fitness went unnoticed, as if being fit, muscular, and capable of astounding physical feats wasn’t a huge part of Soviet propaganda.
EDIT: Also, James apparently tried to throw Nick under the bus to win people back after all his plagiarism was exposed, despite the fact that we know that despite being conspiracy-minded and prone to making things up, the parts we can confirm Nick wrote weren’t plagiarized and all the plagiarism is either from stuff James “wrote” or from before Nick joined.
It was nice to think his collaborator was innocently being taken advantage of but I can't imagine working with James Somerton without realizing the magnitude of grift he was perpetuating.
