is a bit long but is me trying to make sense out of this lets be honest basically anti male grift the amazing athiest did and also do you think it is fair to call it a grift because this is just obnoxious honestly and i do not get the point.

I would comment on this guy’s video, but honestly, I don’t want to disrespect him. I liked him a lot in the past, and even if I didn’t, what’s the point? Calling someone out just to call them out feels empty—especially when they played a real part in shaping how I saw things back then.

Even now, he occasionally says things I still like—kind of like Jimmy Dore, even though they went down different roads and wound up doing different types of grifts. Still, what he’s doing now just seems like a grift to me. That’s not me being harsh—it’s me being real.

I didn’t totally know what else to do with this, but I think part of the disconnect comes from how people don’t—or won’t—recognize that much of today’s wealth and power, especially generational wealth, was just handed down. Kings, queens, aristocrats, rich men—at a certain point, they stopped having to earn anything. And the same goes for people like Trump and a lot of other high-status political or capitalist figures. They didn’t create the society we’re stuck in; they inherited it. It’s theirs, but they didn’t build it. And they didn’t earn or deserve the wealth, power, or influence they got. Not the systems, not the privilege, not even the women—none of it. And sure enough, a lot of them eventually lost it.

Maybe this guy made more money than I realized, like Jimmy Dore—who I found out was already fabulously wealthy before he ever flipped the switch. But back to the point: he seems to miss how today, much like in the past, many men—especially creative, thoughtful, artistic ones—were and are being boxed out, suffocated by systems that claim to be progressive but actively weigh men down. If you really understand patriarchy and capitalism, you’ll see that this society isn’t particularly pro-male. If anything, it tends to reward women more in subtle, structural ways. And historically? There’ve been very few systems that genuinely stood behind men. Maybe France in the 18th century leaned that way briefly—but even then, only if you were born into money.

As a humanist, I actually want to see beauty, creativity, and wealth shared with all people. And yeah, since I am a man, I especially want to see that shared with men. It’s a survival instinct. It’s what an actual alpha would do—empower others, not gatekeep or sell out.

But today’s manosphere? It’s full of dude-bros, MAGA reactionaries, fake traditionalists, neo-masculinists—most of whom aren’t really pro-male at all. Many defend crap like circumcision or male genital mutilation. Guys like Ben Shapiro do it gleefully, calling themselves pro-family while letting male pain go completely ignored.

So when someone like The Amazing Atheist—who once stood out for being bold, open-minded, and genuinely different—starts cozying up to man-hating narratives, it stings. Just because he’s not rolling with Tate or Liver King doesn’t mean it makes sense to carry water for the feminist side. Especially after how brilliantly he used to dismantle those arguments.

He even joked once that he’d sell out someday. Well, did he? Did he sign up with the lizard kings? The Illuminati? Or maybe it’s the secret underground tribe of Oompa Loompas running the Trump machine. Honestly, if he hadn’t recently dropped that one solid video defending Bob Vylan and his free speech rights against Zionist backlash, I’d think he’d already sold out completely.

But I just can’t make sense of the mindset behind this latest shift. I’m not here to hate—I just genuinely don’t get it.