Need a plate of generic, insipid platitudes with a giant helping of bad science and misogyny?

  • MediumRareChicken@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I used to like him. I fell for the crap. To my 16 year old brain what he said made a lot of sense. He had a handful of good points, and it made me believe the rest of the shit he peddled.

    I see him now, I look back on how I hung onto his words like a lost lamb, and I can only facepalm.

    I realised that the only thing he is good at is marketing, not psychology…

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Never take advice on personal responsibility from a guy who intentionally put himself in a coma to avoid taking responsibility for his addiction to a narcotic with zero medicinal properties.

    • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      It’s so weird for me that he seemed surprised that benzos are, in fact, highly addictive with severe withdraw symptoms. Isn’t he a psychologist and potentially someone who is allowed to prescribe such drugs?

  • Powerbomb@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Att least before his drug auxin, he wasn’t that bad and there were some alright takeaways between the lines.

    Now it’s just sick ramblings from a diseased man.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I like how every year he somehow gets worse. I didn’t think he could descend further from professor so annoying he refuses to call students by their preferred names. After the Zizek debate where he had no clue what he was talking about, he’s become like a Charles Dickens character. He’s like a crazy uncle kept in the attic because he’s lost his mind from laudanum.

    • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      I hate Zizek but boy did Zizek make Peterson look bad in that debate (though, it’s not hard)

      • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 years ago

        “Depression is a myth; tidy your room. Also, I’ve been clinically depressed for my whole adult life and I shamble from one crisis to another.”

        • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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          2 years ago

          Does he say depression is a myth? And when you get a little respite from the darkness, picking up the depression den a bit feels amazing.

  • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I hate it when people bitch about the left “not having gurus to help lost young people” or whatever when the right’s so-called gurus are worthless sacks of skin like Peterson. Also I’m here because I - in very emphatic terms - do not want a guru.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it’s really annoying because personal growth is not even remotely relevant to politics. The left can’t “make you a man” because that’s something you do on your own. It implies a specific set of ideas about maturity, relationships, and various other things which are your own problem. The right wants to fit you into the hierarchy, so they’ll make you a certain thing to fit. We don’t, so it’s your job to figure out if you want to be a man or a woman or something else, and what it means to reach that. We don’t give leftist dating advice because it doesn’t make sense, we’re not writing a script for you to follow. Just respect potential partners and maybe one will become a partner you respect. Whether you start a family or find someone isn’t our political project because we don’t want to make you pump out kids for the factories that obey authority.

  • Nobsi@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Oh god, this is so embarassing for us as a society. Young men look for guidance, and all they find is Rape Tate who tells you to be an alpha male by just being obnoxiously “superior” to others.
    John Peanutbutter who tells you to be an alpha male but with science in your brain
    fresh and fit who tell you to be alpha males but by figuratively just shaming women
    and on the opposite side you have nothing for a while and then you have destiny and hasan who try to make you debate like highschoolers.

    Is the world just full of grifters now?

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Most of his fans have never really read his more academic works (like the one with the grandma sex dream). So, I guess they like his vibe. But his vibe is weepy alcoholic. What’s so great about that?

    • TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I recently had a fairly high fever and became pretty emotional over absolutely mundane shit. JBP talks and acts like has a brain damaging fever every day of his life.

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    I can help you as well. Just turn to Hedonism, which is pretty much the opposite of what Jelly B Peanutbutter tells you to do.
    Quit your job, become an artist. Heck, become a twitch streamer, I don’t care. Try to do what brings you joy. And remember to eat the rich.