Not the person you're replying to, but, you know, a lot of us have never been very impressed with him. The Muskovites are inclined to believe that everyone would be a cultist but for (reason), but this isn't necessarily the case.
(This is a common form of broken thinking for cults in general; the cultist is so convinced of The Truth that they assume that non-cultists must only be resisting The Truth for a specific reason, not realising that to non-cultists The Truth is just fundamentally disconnected from reality.)
I went from "ugh, this guy's pretty full-of-himself and bullshit-heavy" to "this guy's a loony" with the diver incident, but I was never particularly impressed with him beforehand. Like, even if he wasn't an unpleasant bigot, he still wouldn't be somebody that I'd be very keen on.
(This is a common form of broken thinking for cults in general; the cultist is so convinced of The Truth that they assume that non-cultists must only be resisting The Truth for a specific reason, not realising that to non-cultists The Truth is just fundamentally disconnected from reality.)
I went from "ugh, this guy's pretty full-of-himself and bullshit-heavy" to "this guy's a loony" with the diver incident, but I was never particularly impressed with him beforehand. Like, even if he wasn't an unpleasant bigot, he still wouldn't be somebody that I'd be very keen on.