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Bainne17's avatar

The most accurate thing here is without a doubt when you talk about his strange life path post college. I firmly believe that he was a much more independent adventurous and, as you say, beat his own drum than his upbringing allowed. He did not are about prestige, he just wanted to explore and do his own thing. His life has probably been planned out since he was young, and he was rebelling against that. I think this influenced his beliefs around people being NPCs

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Alice Dubois's avatar

I'll dm you about the caffeine thing, I think I know what you mean

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H.N.E's avatar

“The only “moves rightward” that are well substantiated by his social media appear to be accepting that there are biological differences between men and women, becoming somewhat sympathetic to religion, and seeing things like pornography as socially degenerative.”

I don’t believe these are right-wing.

For example, I am more left-wing (anti-capitalist), and believe in the biological differences between both sexes. It is a mistake to ignore these differences.

I also believe that belief in religion is not necessarily correlated to left/right. (I also believe that you 100% know more about this topic).

And being anti-pornography is very common for anti-capitalists. I do however acknowledge that there are many weird Twitter “leftists” that are also very into producing and consuming pornography.

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Jason Rand's avatar

This is by far the deepest dive I've seen on him. Hard journalistic work, congrats. My sub: https://posocap.com

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A Wondering Mind by Lisa Greer's avatar

I think you nailed it with ENTP.

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April's avatar

Hi Max, do you plan to release Part 4 ? Really appreciate all the insight you’ve shared so far.

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figgie's avatar

1. The most shocking part for me was learning that you Americans consider 14 paid vacation days an advantage (About us section from TrueCar). Thoughts and tariffs.

2. Grateful you mentioned the reliability and research behind IQ. Far too many people abuse medical-grade copium when talking about it.

3. I will never understand why Luigi didn't take a proper leadership role post college. He had enough prerequisites to do so, as you mentioned, and could've surrounded himself with like-minded people that way as well as make substantial change in whatever field he would've pursued. He could've done so well if he'd joined the dark side (ENTJ), lol. If you ever have time or will to expand on this, I'd be all ears.

4. I hope more of your personal convictions will shine through in the next part.

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Hugh Janus's avatar

Waited so long for this, and it was totally worth it! Your insights have given me a brand new perspective. I’ll definitely keep coming back to this as I put the pieces together myself. Also, lowkey questioning my own MBTI now, which I had recently concluded last month after being on the fence for 5 years, so thanks for that.

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