Eric M. Johnson

Christian, Husband, Dad, Theology nerd, YouTuber, Gamer.
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[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

@DougTenNapel Would love your thoughts on part one of this story that's been floating around in my head for the past decade... AI is the only thing that made it possible to tell it in the format I think it needs.
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[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

@JoshDaws @cfryant Would love your thoughts on part one of this story that's been floating around in my head for the past decade... AI is the only thing that made it possible to tell it in the format I think it needs.
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[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

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[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

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[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

@DougTenNapel I think you might like my latest 3D print...

[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

As a 38 year old with a YouTube gaming channel, a wife, two daughters, and another daughter on the way, I'm only half offended.

If you're even only a semi-responsible father, once there's multiple children, time to fit in gaming inevitably decreases, whether the motive was "growing up" because your were told to, or literally because you're too tired and have to go to bed.

That said, my only push back is that I see gaming as being as valid as any other hobby, whether it's done socially or in solitude.

The temptation all men face is isolation with "hobbies" and prioritizing their lives badly. Video games are one way that can happen.

But I don't see how one can look at such a broad category like "gaming" and call inherently "childish," regardless of how it is prioritized.

That's like saying movies or novels are childish. The question is whether your engaging with them childishly. One might say, "yeah but that's very often the case."

No disagreement there.

[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

@ConceptualJames @_Nosoup4you__ I noticed his sudden shift right after he posted this video. Interesting...
https://t.co/X4POJzv7qx

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

He accomplished two important things with this line of questioning: 1) He exposed abortion for what it really is, stripping away the euphemisms that hide its barbarity, and 2) he revealed that abortion's proponents are too embarrassed and uncomfortable to have the conversation without the euphemisms because it makes them look monstrous. In other words, they care more about how they're perceived than anything else, including the wellbeing of innocent, defenseless babies. So they are, in fact, monstrous — and terrible at hiding it.

Very well done.

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

The current anti-Israel and even anti-Jewish sentiment online is a social contagion, no different than transgenderism or autism before it.

Of course, there is actually a condition known as gender dysphoria. But every family in Hollywood didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with gender dysphoria at the exact same time by natural processes.

And of course there is actually a condition known as autism. But every family in Manhattan didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with autism at the exact same time by natural processes.

You aren't an Israel skeptic, and you didn't start "noticing." You were told, and shown by interested parties, and you were rewarded with attention and dopamine by the tellers and showers.

And as with every social contagion, what you have been told and shown is an overwhelming quantity of selectively chosen half-truths -- or full-truths with half-context.

You believe you are a free thinker, but when every "free thinker" arrives at the same conclusion at the exact same time... well, the thinking isn't as free as you believe it is.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

British people watching America liberate Iran from radical Islam

[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

@nosoup4knowles @aaridi31 @ComicDaveSmith

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Interesting.

[Britta | NoSoup4Knowles @nosoup4knowles]

Candace Owens can accuse people on the right of literally covering up a murder, but Ben Shapiro can't even criticize people for covering for Candace? 🤣

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

I've been engaging with some of the Candace style commentors today. Partly to see how they would react to discussion. It can be informative for me to engage them and make sure I understand them so I am not misrepresenting anything.

Some observations...
1. Ad hominem fallacy - ignore what is said and attack the person instead of dealing with the argument being made.
2. "So you're saying" - this one happens a lot. Intentional or not they take what I say and exaggerate it to silly proportions so it can be restated back to me as if I was making some ridiculous claim. "So you're saying it's wrong to seek truth?!"
3. Subject changing - I make a point. They ignore it and make another point. I respond to the new point. They ignore it and make a new point.
4. Denouncement - Mike, you're a clown. Mike, you are in the pocket of Israel. Mike, you have really lost it completely. Is this even the real Mike Winger?

What I don't see is a response to my actual points. This echoes Candace Owens and to some degree Tucker Carlson. In Tucker's response to Shapiro we saw him do many of these tactics, ignoring the actual criticism that Shapiro brought. The audience learns not only the positions of the host, they learn the methods they use. That's where the real danger is.

This is the same as cult programming and those who do it usually think they are doing critical thinking.

[A. J. A. @PolemicistPunk]

@yashar

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Ben Shapiro won TPUSA. His insane act of moral courage overshadowed the whole event. He was living rent-free in everyone’s heads from day one, and all the stuttering, petty, grifters came across like moral midgets in comparison.

The grifters still might win. The direction of the movement and the future of America is still up in the air. But nothing will undo what Ben accomplished in that speech, and I hope it inspires more courage in others.

[Eric M. Johnson @EricSayingStuff]

I'm not saying that the popular level contempt for the "boomer" generation is unprovoked and impossible to understand. But beware "Christian" influencers who indulge in it to such an extent that they act like we're the first generation to whom the 4th commandment does not apply.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

It looks like the tide is actually turning, or has mostly turned, on the vile Woke Reich, so we can expect them now to go back in many cases to a disingenuous hat-in-hand approach where we all just need to work together in 2026 to defeat the Left. Don't let them back in.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Actually the baby is the one that gets ripped apart.