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Debating Konstantin Kisin on the “Religious Left”

Alex O'Connor | May 6, 2026



Clip taken from TRIGGERnometry. The full episode is here: https://youtu.be/GRdwWQu5OBU?si=eAFSOh-cIbocD4Bk

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This post currently has 30 comments.

  1. @FreeTheGingers

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    I'm totally fine with Konstantin's definition of religion. 0:40 "a set of beliefs that makes people act in a way that is impractical and irrational." That sums up every religion I've ever studied.

  2. @doofynetgraouw

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Man, these triggernometry guys still make effort to sound smart. but damn, i've never heard them say anything slightly smart.
    Alex, disappointed in the way you did not call them out on some of these subjects (climate change, elon musk, ..). Come on!

  3. @CrystalMannequins

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    “I’ll be one of them making that critique” he is in fact not one of those people making that critique 😂 he’s still an Elon fan boy cuz it makes him money fucking retard

  4. @CrystalMannequins

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Alex way ahead of his time here. These retards are too obsessed with “I’m just a common sense logical guy”😂 they are completely unable to see past the immediate present 😂

  5. @hals6118

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    How does he say so confidently that nobody on the left is criticizing Elon Musk for his hypocrisy on free speech? Plenty of us are. That’s just willful ignorance.

  6. @archiespeller1029

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    KK is completely blinded by his own bias. I’ve been in that conversational loop myself before, it took about 2 hours of conversation for me to realise that I was basically saying “my points make more sense because my emotions support them”. The friends I was speaking with were very patient with me and guided me to self awareness, that’s what Alex is trying to do here but Kisin’s ego is simply too inflated to wake up to himself.

  7. @badrang

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    If you pay enough attention to Triggernometry, you will see this same hypocritical "flawed" reasoning everywhere. Another obvious example is chasing up Hunter Biden, a smoking gun with no further evidence of just a single instance of corruption whilst dismissing Trump's cryptocurrency system which allows people to bribe him at scale with evidence of hundreds of millions flowing directly into Trump's account and receipts of countless instances of corruption.

    It is deliberate, Konstantin in particular knows exactly what he is doing and is far too intelligent to not notice the flaws in his own arguments.

    This happens everywhere across their work. They know what's up – they are grifters. Go somewhere else.

  8. @neutralviewer-u3g

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Konsantin and Co are such idiots. I would argue they are in a religion, their beliefs cause them to behave in a way that is impractical and irrational and they do it in the service of an idea – that idea is to go against anything that in their eyes is "WOKE" ie ideas that are kind and respectful to all peoples

  9. @evelcustom9864

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    In the 1960s, 70's, and 80's there was a multitude of very rational scientists who consistently warned those in power about climate change and the human impact of it and those warnings feel either on deaf ears or were actively suppressed. The frustration of willful ignorance by those in power and mounting evidence that those warnings were valid has led to a popular movement, one that, like all popular movements, has spokespeople and fringe groups. Alex essentially spoon feeds to Kissin this exact scenario happening with AI and the tone deaf Kissin essentially says that when the same thing inevitably happens he will be there to single out the fringe elements of the anti-AI movement and use it as a critique of the entire movement.

  10. @evelcustom9864

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Can Kissin be any more of a knob? 'Well my views are rational and logical so it's ok when I do it, but everyone who doesn't agree with me is crazy and couldn't possibly make a valid critique the likes of which I am capable of'.

  11. @DeathForSk8

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    The right wing guys calling the climate change stuff "religious" are ironically the ones denying all of climate science in favor of holding a dogmatic belief

  12. @MrSeananim

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    This is why the Trigger dudes are right wing regardless of what they call themselves. They say that only right wing critics of the BBC have a valid point. They say that environmentalism is faith based woo woo so we shouldn't look at the argument. And Elon's hijacking of governments along with racist views aren't just Greta's Fever dream. They rant against a free will choice to be a vegan or animal rights activist but hold up religious ideals like dietary restrictions or being against gay rights as being part of a lofty tradition.

  13. @Ashikura

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Konstantin may be one of the most dishonest people I’ve ever listened to. A rare Alex clip where I actually feel like it was a waste of my time.

  14. @doomslace

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    I feel like your final words in this video should be very enlightening to everyone criticizing any protestors. Are americans in a religious cult for not wanting masked federal agents abusing peoples rights? This whole argument is such a slap in the face and moral scape goat for seeing and letting abuses continue. "I see this thing happening but I like the end results so anyone showing passion about ending it should be considered cultish"

  15. @goaty1964

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    All three can't think of an example of Elon's craziness, but are all distaining of Greta's position and don't even bother to provide an example

  16. @Turbo.M777

    May 6, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Alex is an unstoppable force of intellectual honesty. Konstantin has a chip on his shoulder he wont quite acknowledge. He's unwilling to consider his disagreers point of view. He thinks the MOST irrational ones are the true spokesmen of his opponents, but chooses to view the most RATIONAL picks as champions of his. There are panicked whackjobs in every corner.

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