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2025-10-15T10:08:41Z

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|Ideology=[[Anarchism]] (nominally) [[Libertarian socialism]] (nominally) [[Liberalism]] [[Anti-communism]]
|years_active=2019–present
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'''Ian Kochinski''', formerly '''IrishLaddie''', best known by his internet moniker '''Vaush''', is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[YouTube]] and [[Twitch]] streamer who primarily discusses [[politics]], [[philosophy]], and [[gaming]]. He has described himself as a liberal,<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaRosqQOxk&t=64s|channel=Vaush}}</ref> a [[Libertarian socialism|libertarian socialist]] and an [[Anarchism|anarchist]], but for all intents and purposes is a [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]], as he supports [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] figures like [[Joe Biden]] and institutions such as [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] and the [[European Union|EU]] (he even claimed Marx and Lenin would have voted for Biden),<ref>{{News citation|author=[[BadEmpanada]]|newspaper=Twitter|title=Vaush misread stuff so badly in his latest video that it led me to make a serious youtube comment that I now must post here. the lack of non-US knowledge is clear in his misreading of Lenin especially|date=2020-08-20|url=https://twitter.com/RadEmpanada/status/1296701957739077633|archive-url=https://archive.ph/MQ3bo|archive-date=2020-10-26|retrieved=2022-04-17}}</ref> all the while regurgitating [[Imperialism|imperialist]] and [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] propaganda about people and regimes who threaten [[Imperial core|Western]] interests. His channel mainly serves to [[Deradicalisation|deradicalise]] people from both the [[Far-left politics|far-left]] and the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] while enriching himself in the process.

Vaush is a serial sexual predator<ref>For a detailed discussion, see [[EssenceOfThought]] (2022-09-24).: [https://youtu.be/U-RWyFOpwZk "That Time Vaush's Career Should Have Died (But Sadly Didn't)"]. [[YouTube]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220924134419/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-RWyFOpwZk Archived] from the original on 2022-09-24.</ref> and a [[Pedophilia|pedophile]]<ref name=":3">('''NSFW''') Vaush saved drawn images of child pornography on his computer: https://vxtwitter.com/hayasaka_aryan/status/1755376676899332291?s=19</ref> with a very large ego about "getting laid".<ref>When someone in his chat joked that Vaush couldn’t get laid, he responded with, “[https://x.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1300197204443893760 Do you have any idea who the fuck you’re talking to? When I got off Tinder because of the fucking quarantine, Tacoma wept. Even ignoring the fact that I have a girlfriend, even if we’re just talking like randos, I’m two hours away right now from being inside someone else. I have two skills -it’s non-monogamy and speaking publicly, okay? Do some fucking research]!”</ref>

== Ideological criticism ==

===Anti-communism===
Vaush clams that Marxism is an ‘extension of liberalism’.<ref>{{Video citation|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200803180443/https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049|channel=Vaush|date=3 Aug 2020}}</ref> Vaush whitewashed [[George Orwell]]'s reporting of [[Left-wing politics|leftists]], non-white and [[LGBT+]] peoples to the [[Information Research Department]] (IRD) within the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] government, as acceptable by claiming that Orwell was reporting "[[Stalinism|Stalinists]]".<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=2755s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=I don't give a fuck if Stalinists are reported to the state, I don't give a shit.}}</ref>

Vaush called the promotion of George Orwell's anti-communist writings by the IRD and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] as "based".<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=2765s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=“This office [IRD] not only got the rights to Orwell's works but also directly translated and published Animal Farm and his other garbage works into 20 languages on every continent on Earth.”
Based
“In fact, Orwell's entire literary reputation is due to direct CIA and other anti-communist organisation efforts at popularising his nonsense, which is…”
Based. Based CIA.}}</ref> Vaush argued passionately against U.S. workers demanding a $25/hour minimum wage.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=26 Jan 2021|url=https://archive.is/VeC4M|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524102440/https://archive.is/VeC4M|quote=If Bernie was president there is literally zero chance you’d push him on something as ridiculous and impractical as an immediate tripling of the minimum wage. If Biden did somehow raise it to 25/hour, you’d say you wanted 30. You’re so transparent. If Brie ever wants to come on stream so I can explain to her how fucking moronic her empty virtue signal for a $25/hr minimum wage is, I’m down. Collapsing the economy wouldn’t be good for American workers.

She won’t, of course. Gotta keep that grift going}}</ref> Vaush unironically endorsed Keynesian economics, stating “I feel neo-Keynesian economists have the answer.”<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504173313/https://old.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/n45u9q/i_feel_neokeyensian_economists_have_the_answer/|channel=Enough Vaush Spam|title="I feel neo-Keyensian economists have the answer" - Vaush going mask off liberal, again|date=2021 May 3rd}}</ref> Vaush once posted a meme that said socialism must be "balanced with minority rights".<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|title=.|url=https://archive.is/QrcpP}}</ref>

Vaush told his followers to vote for Joe Biden while saying of ‘tankies’ (a term he used to refer to Marxists): “Mock them, socially ostracise them, kick them out of your communities."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=2019-08-21|url=https://i.redd.it/7urxl7hxrw761.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121100629/https://archive.is/1IK74|quote="It's not enough not to be a tankie. Mock them, socially ostracize them, kick them out of your communities. They have basically no principles anyway, they'll change their tune if it means getting to hang out with the cool kids again."}}</ref>

Vaush called the Marxist, Iraqi YouTuber Hakim a ‘pseudo-fascist’ and a ‘cancer on online discourse’ because he said Biden will be worse on foreign policy than Trump.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://youtu.be/RgKTY-PUTzI?t=138|channel=Vaush|title=.}}</ref> Vaush then had a ‘debate’ with Hakim where he politely agreed with everything Hakim said. Following that debate (mere moments after Hakim had left) Vaush said “a lot of tankies are aesthetically and functionally indistinguishable from neo-Nazis”.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGuOUVGpbo&t=9387s|channel=Vaush|title=SUPER CAPITALISM, talking w/ Hakim, weed & more!|date=2021-01-03}}</ref>

Responding to Hakim’s video<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gz0I_X_nfo|channel=Hakim|title=George Orwell was a terrible human being|date=Feb 21, 2023}}</ref> on George Orwell, Vaush defends Orwell for being a government informant, calls the USSR fascist, implies Stalinists are worse than Nazis, claims the USSR was allied with the Nazis, says that Hakim (an Iraqi) should have been abducted by the Americans at the start of the Iraq war and forcibly indoctrinated in US propaganda for 20 years,<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329152746/https://twitter.com/SiestaSocialist/status/1633527352679358470|channel=Vaush|title=Vaush defending Orwell|date=2023-03-08}}</ref> and more.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309005003/https://twitter.com/siestasocialist/status/1633519585407258624|channel=Vaush|title=Vaush defending Orwell|date=2023-03-08}}</ref>

===Support for U.S. imperialism===
On 11 December 2020, Vaush jokingly stated that [[Republic of Iraq|Iraqis]] have him to thank for supposedly stopping and preventing [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] in Iraq by encouraging people to vote for Joe Biden.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxn2aNbqa6w&t=13060s|channel=Vaush|title=GOING OVER VIDEOS CRITICIZING ME {{!}} CHILL STREAM|date=2020-12-11|quote=…you [[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Hakim Hakim]] are lucky that I personally got Biden into office because otherwise – is Hakim from Iraq? Well, hey listen ok, we're going to get Biden to get those troops out of Iraq ok – wait did he already do that? We are going to keep Biden from fucking bombing anymore of your airports ok. That's what we're going to do! You're welcome Hakim!
I know, I know it–, I know it sucks, because frantically Democrats and Republicans both have a pretty fucking bad record when it comes to foreign policy, but listen you. Ok, I got Biden elected and I'm gonna wield that infinite power, alright, and I'm gonna make sure we quit fucking around in the Middle East ok. We're gonna pull troops out of – we're gonna pull troops out of [[Afghanistan]], we're gonna pay reparations to the countries we bomb, we're gonna stop that [[Yemen]] shit, we're gonna start arguing with [[Saudi Arabia]], we're going to reinstitute the nuclear fucking arms shit deal with [[Iran]] – the nuclear treatus [sic], we're going to establish fuckin' one state council solution with [[Israel]] and [[Palestine]] – 'cos I feel that's closest we're going to be able to get – um, we're gonna – we're gonna do it. "This won't happen under Biden." Goddamn right it will. It will 'cos of me. 'Cos of all the socialist influence I have in the Democratic party. Yeah, we're gonna lift sanctions on [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Vuvuzuela]] [sic], we're gonna fix the world. "No it won't Vaush." Do you think I'm being serious man?}}</ref>

On 3 February 2023 Vaush advocated expanding [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] in a [[Twitter|tweet]]. Responding to a tweet criticising the number of [[U.S. Military]] bases in the [[Asia-Pacific]], Vaush stated that "We [the U.S.] need more".<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=[[Twitter]]|date=2023-02-03|url=https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1621586438814072834|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230204024826/https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1621586438814072834|archive-date=2023-02-04|retrieved=2023-02-04|quote=We need more}}</ref>

On the 23 February, 2023 Vaush advocated for the removal of [[Hakim]], an Iraqi Marxist-Leninist YouTuber from their homeland in order to receive English education in the U.S.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=5405s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=I know that Hakim is Iraqi, but I think they should have, like, airlifted him and brought him over to an American English class and had him sit there for 20 straight years after the Iraq War began – which was about 20 years ago – solely so that he wouldn't have made this retarded fucking video.}}</ref>

===Settler apologia===

In a debate with the Youtuber [[Professor Flowers]] on [[black nationalism]] and [[decolonisation]], Vaush compared [[White South Africans|White South African]] [[Settler colonialism|settlers]] who gained their "homes" via [[apartheid]] to [[Jewish]] people who faced persecution by the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi Party]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=BadEmpanada|newspaper=[[YouTube]]|title=Vaush Knows Nothing About Decolonization and Self-Determination, Yet Sure Has Some Strong Opinions!|date=2021-09-13|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4zJxP2hgpc|retrieved=2023-03-06}}</ref>

=== Fascism ===
There is some evidence that Vaush is more than a terrible human being, he may also be a crypto-fascist. Vaush has engaged in forms of Holocaust denial, using common nazi dogwhistles and believes the numbers are inflated as propaganda.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/q0ca95/vaush_says_that_some_aspect_of_holocaust/|channel=Enough Vaush Spam|title=Vaush says that some aspect of Holocaust revisionism might be true and says that the Holocaust death count is likely inflated due to war propaganda.|date=October 3rd, 2021}}</ref> Vaush also tweeted a literal Nazi meme – glorifying the Nazi-allied Finland for fighting against the USSR in WWII.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|title=.|url=https://archive.is/gpXBg}}</ref>

== Bigotry ==

===Antisemitism===
In a debate with [[NonCompete]], Vaush claimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] disproportionately controlled banks in [[German Reich (1918–1933)|Weimar Germany]].<ref name=":0">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lR1FdFefcA&t=3050s|channel=Vaush|title=HE HUNG UP - Absurd Debate w/ NonCompete Quickly Derails|quote=There was a disproportionate number of Jewish control of banks in Germany during the Weimar Republic.}}</ref>

===Racism===
Vaush has called Black people "subhuman"<ref name=":4">{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Discord|url=https://i.redd.it/q1bs0pmcuk661.png|archive-url=https://archive.ph/DP5nR|archive-date=2020-12-21|quote=you guys know ive called black and trans people subhuman too}}</ref> and intentionally said the N-word in a debate.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=YouTube|title=Am I a Jew? Arguing with Nazis on THE KILLSTREAM|date=2019-05-14|url=https://i.imgur.com/TMMwFra.png|archive-url=https://archive.ph/C7g1n|archive-date=2020-11-15|quote=In this video, I drop an n-bomb. Biiiig one; hard 'R' [...] It was a power move which I am entirely unashamed of}}</ref> He is against preserving Black culture even though it was systematically repressed by the United States.<ref>{{Web citation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722205131/https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1258520435655766022|archive-date=2022-07-22|quote=Wait, fuck Black culture—I don't give a fuck about preserving culture. What? That's exactly the same as a white ethnonationalist argument.}}</ref>

===Transphobia===
Vaush has ranted that the [[LGBT+|LGBT+ community]] (and [[Transgender people|trans people]] and trans girls in particular) is characterized by "fragility" and "performatively fragile"<ref name=":5">{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaD4xqkO0sE&t=594s|channel=Vaush|title=Is Vaush a CRYPTO-FASCIST!? (Exposed!) (Not Clickbait!!!)|date=2020-02-27}}</ref>, and are: "cancerous";<ref name=":6">{{Web citation|newspaper=Streamable|url=https://streamable.com/fdy60u|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308145927/https://streamable.com/fdy60u|archive-date=2022-03-08|quote=The left community online, particularly the LGBT community, is cancerous as fuck. If you're not an idiot, you will agree with me.}}</ref> "[[Ableism|mentally ill]]";<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Streamable|title=I know this is fundamentally reactionary thinking, but still, I can’t think of anything else|url=https://streamable.com/uu2mkv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308152603/https://streamable.com/uu2mkv|archive-date=2022-03-08|quote=A lot of the people who are trying to cancel [[Contrapoints]] are fucking dejected, worthless, mentally ill, basement-dweller, fucking queer people who have absolutely nothing to offer the world apart from their bitter scorn.}}</ref> "less than human, I have no respect for these people"; "disgusting" and should be "excised from the left"; "I despise them"; he thinks they're "every bit as detrimental to the left as Nazis are"; "I want these people to know that they're my enemy"; "hate them"; "they're subhuman, I don't care".<ref name=":6" /> He "clarified" and defended his words after the livestream clip got backlash.<ref name=":5" /> Then he ranted again, calling them "mentally ill" and "subhuman".<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://streamable.com/rmzvks|channel=Vaush|title=livestream}}</ref> When people criticized [[Contrapoints]] he called them “worthless, mentally ill, basement dweller fucking queer people with absolutely nothing to offer the world” and “degenerates sucking off the back of society like a leech”.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://streamable.com/uu2mkv|channel=Vaush|title=livestream}}</ref> He (a cis man) called the non-binary lefty Youtuber ThoughtSlime ‘fragile’ and ‘dumb’ for his opinion on gender abolition.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=2019-07-24|url=https://archive.is/KqPFN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614004308/https://archive.is/KqPFN|quote=Are you always this fragile? A person asked me for my opinion on your take and I said it was dumb. It remains dumb. We’re both free to hold our opinions; I’m not pressing you for a debate.}}</ref> He also claimed, “Trans people do not have a better understanding of trans-ness…"<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/ikbf6z/anarchosyndicalism_with_reactionary/|channel=Shit Liberals Say|title=Anarcho-Syndicalism with reactionary characteristics|date=2020}}</ref> Vaush ranted hate towards trans people for taking offense when misgendered.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=9 Jun 2019|url=https://archive.is/AljiB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203120939/https://archive.is/AljiB|quote=Honestly fuck trans people I accidentally misgender people over text SO often and it’s 100% typos from my meaty paws and it never fucking matters except with you bitches

Fuck you

whose idea was it to make ‘she’ and ‘he’ basically the same word}}</ref> Vaush defended saying “fuck trans people” by claiming he has a ‘6-figure’ income from all the online attention that he was getting.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=2019-06-10|url=https://i.redd.it/tx6roef1gu561.png|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117081517/https://i.redd.it/tx6roef1gu561.png|quote=I mean, I'm growing really quickly and am already making 6 figures after like 5 months of growth but okay, you'll be missed I guess}}</ref>

=== Ableism ===
Despite self-identifying as bipolar, Vaush said that a “large portion of the left is predicated on shared mental illness.”<ref name=":5" /> In response to a Tweet saying the left ‘should stand up for the weak and vulnerable’ Vaush replied “Yeah, enjoy your Left, built on weakness and a collective inability to criticise one another. I’ll be over here building my left, which isn’t full of mentally ill crybabies desperately carving out safe spaces and whining about criticism.”<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|title=.|url=https://archive.is/Ygbzk}}</ref>

== Paedophilia ==
Vaush appears to have a pre-occupation with paedophilia.<ref>[https://archive.is/ph5nl Asked if anyone had ever had sex with a minor as an adult.]

[https://archive.is/ATQiB Replied with “unironically hot.”]

[https://archive.is/kvZbR Asked someone “what did pedos ever do to you?]

[https://archive.is/8rfVw Refered to ‘Salem Pedophile trials.']

[https://archive.is/3Po0L Joined in a conversation about child-sex bots.]</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|date=2018-05-06|url=https://archive.is/ATQiB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726175846/https://archive.is/ATQiB|quote=Unironically hot}}</ref> Vaush has repeatedly defended child pornography<ref name=":1">{{News citation|author=Beige Goat|newspaper=Twitter|title=Context, for what it's worth.|date=2020-11-09|url=https://twitter.com/beigegoat45/status/1325705005886746624|retrieved=2022-04-17|quote=In fact — and this is gonna be a real hot take — I have yet to hear a convincing moral or legal argument as to why possession of child pornography should be illegal.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Streamable|title=Livestream clip|url=https://streamable.com/kd2967|quote=If you're not paying for child pornography there is no argument in favor of morally condemning people who view it.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Streamable|title=Livestream with Cult of Dusty Codcast|url=https://streamable.com/55rhyz|quote=I assign this to literally everything. Um, I don't even think, like, owning child pornography is immoral.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Streamable|title=Livestream with Cult of Dusty Codcast|url=https://streamable.com/ibzzqs|quote=I would not say that it is unethical for a person to purchase child pornography}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Streamable|title=Livestream clip|url=https://streamable.com/ykb9ih|quote=If you're not paying for child porn, if you're just getting it, there is no moral or legal argument against that doesn't also rope in you guys for the things you have purchased.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Reddit|title=Vaush “joking” about owning CP. Can’t wait to see how his fans will defend this.|date=2017-09-23|url=https://old.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/my9xug/vaush_joking_about_owning_cp_cant_wait_to_see_how/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025010100/https://old.reddit.com/r/Enough_Vaush_Spam/comments/my9xug/vaush_joking_about_owning_cp_cant_wait_to_see_how/|quote="There's a difference between exploring child sexuality and sexualizing children Okay we're on child porn now That's good Okay I'm posting it now"}}</ref>, claimed to have a Twitter account that shares drawn child pornography,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|title=.|url=https://archive.is/9DF8s}}</ref> and believes that the age of consent should be lowered under socialism.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Discord|date=2018-02-13|url=https://i.redd.it/z3nrrkf179l51.png|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806085802/https://i.redd.it/z3nrrkf179l51.png|archive-date=2022-08-06|quote=As those imbalances (or at least some of them) are redressed through the advent of socialism, the age of consent should therefor [sic] be lowered.}}</ref> Vaush has defended the consumption of child pornography because ‘there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism’.<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://twitter.com/beigegoat45/status/1325705005886746624|channel=Vaush|title=livestream|date=2020-11-09}}</ref> An ‘old close friend’ of Vaush has alleged that Vaush once admitted to viewing images of child pornography.<ref>{{Web citation|title=.|url=https://archive.is/83Cba}}</ref>

For years, Vaush and his supporters fervently denied any allegations that he was a paedophile, but the allegations were proven true beyond any reasonable doubt when he accidentally showed his drawn child porn collection live on stream in February 2024.<ref name=":3" />

== Sexual Harassment ==
Vaush is a self-confessed sexual harasser.<ref name=":7">{{Web citation|author=IrishLaddie (Vaush)|newspaper=Reddit|title=A Retrospective on the Sexual Harassment Drama|date=2022|url=https://archive.is/hS0cB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520020328/https://archive.is/hS0cB|quote=I am - maybe against better judgement - typing this out to consolidate my perspective on the drama which has manifested around my having engaged in sexual harassment.}}</ref> Despite this ‘apology’ he went on to ‘joke’ about scaring his victim into shutting up.<ref name=":8">{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Twitter|title=receipts|date=2020-08-04|url=https://archive.is/joDh9#selection-3467.10-3467.20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118050134/https://archive.is/joDh9#selection-3467.10-3467.20}}</ref> He said he had ‘done nothing to feel remorseful for’<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" /> and ‘nothing to apologise over’<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|title=.|url=https://archive.is/NVOv6}}</ref>. In fact, his own sysadmin suggested he change his handle<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|title=.|url=https://archive.is/eaA4a}}</ref> to hide from sexual harassment allegations.

== FBI Informant ==
Vaush admits to being an informant when he lived in Santa Monica, California. He admits to revealing antifascist activist identities to the FBI, saying, "You could say that about literally anything, there any informants everywhere, I'm an informant, why do you think I did antifa work back in Santa Monica? Yeah, I was ratting out names, absolutely. We've all been informants. CIA asset Vaush group."<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://youtu.be/zXUR7YG3h94?t=173|channel=LeninsCat|title=Vaush admits to being a snitch / informant (with included context)|date=2021-12-13}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:YouTube channels]]
[[Category:Imperialist propaganda]]
[[Category:Child pornography defenders]]
[[Category:BreadTube]]
[[Category:Fascists]]

Center for Political Innovation

2025-10-15T10:03:12Z

103.214.20.133: Made note of the CPI's evangelical and charismatic influences

{{Infobox political party|name=Center for Political Innovation|logo=CPI logo.png|abbreviation=CPI|leader1_title=Notable figures|leader1_name=[[Caleb Maupin]]|dissolved=21 August 2022 (temporarily)|political_orientation=[[Patriotic socialism]] [[Chauvinism]] [[Nationalism|Statesian nationalism]]<ref>{{News citation|author=Center for Political Innovation|date=2014-02-28|title=Laying the Foundations of American Socialism & "Patriotic Socialism"|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqxIC9wFgk|newspaper=Youtube}}</ref> [[MAGA Communism]]<ref>{{News citation|date=2024-12-1|title=Trump Has Korea Peace Plans, #PeaceMAGA gears up for Inauguration|url=https://www.cpiusa.org/news/trump-has-korea-peace-plans-peacemaga-gears-up-for-inauguration|newspaper=Center for Political Innovation}}</ref>|position=Far-right|website=https://cpiusa.org/}}

The '''Center for Political Innovation''' ('''CPI''') is a self-described [[think tank]] operating in the [[United States of America]] and founded by [[Caleb Maupin]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Center for Political Innovation|title=Home|url=https://cpiusa.org/|retrieved=2022-8-21}}</ref>

In August 2022, The CPI was briefly dissolved by its leadership following members' accusations against founder Caleb Maupin of sexual abuse and inappropriate conduct.<ref name=":0" /> After two months of silence, Maupin re-emerged by publishing a self-serving apology video<ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHAZ5fidyuo|channel=Caleb Maupin|title=Time To Finally Talk About What Happened...|date=2022-11-07}}</ref> and shortly afterwards reopening the CPI, carrying on with it unchanged.

== Ideological line ==
The CPI claims to be focused on the construction of "Socialism with American Characteristics" and is often associated with the phenomenon of [[patriotic socialism]].

Chris Butters of the [[CPUSA]] has accused Caleb Maupin and [[Glenn Greenwald]] of "signaling left, [and] moving right".<ref>{{Web citation|author=Chris Butters|newspaper=CPUSA|title=Signaling left, turning right: The “radicals” rebranding populism|date=2021-12-17|url=https://www.cpusa.org/article/signaling-left-turning-right-the-radicals-rebranding-populism/}}</ref>

Since Maupin's open rejection of communism in 2024, the CPI's ethos has been increasingly influenced by Evangelical Christianity, namely the charismatic moment. Maupin himself has donned a white leisure suit similar to that of charismatic preacher and televangelist, Benny Hinn.

== Conferences ==
The CPI has held various conferences throughout its existence, some with notable guests.

=== Chicago: Unite Against the Imperialists ===
On August 6 2022, CPI held a conference in a suburb of Chicago. Guests included [[Kalambayi Andenet]] of the [[Uhuru Movement]], [[Tara Reade]], [[Garland Nixon]], [[Dust James]], [[Stansfield Smith]] from the [[Free Alex Saab Committee]], [[Chris Helali]] of the [[Party of Communists USA|PCUSA]], and [[Nick Brand]] of the [[Movement for a People's Party]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Elizabeth P.|newspaper=[[Maintrend News]]|title=CPI Conference in Chicago: Unite Against The Imperialists|date=2022-08-16|url=https://maintrendnews.com/articles/cpi-conference-in-chicago-unite-against-the-imperialists}}</ref>

== Dissolution and reopening ==
On August 19, 2022, dissenters from within the think tank accused the leader [[Caleb Maupin]] of sexual abuse and coercion against women in the organization, along with other acts of cult-like behavior towards members, such as overworking CPI members for more than 12 hours a day on canvassing activities (fundraising), forcing them to share a single hotel room and pay for it between themselves, and trying to isolate them from their friends network and even from other CPI members once they had become sufficiently dependent on the Center.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Medium|title=Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!|date=2022-8-19|url=https://medium.com/@cpimembersspeakout/caleb-maupins-former-comrades-speak-out-his-abuses-must-stop-4167bc1c2c|retrieved=2022-8-21}}</ref>

On August 21, 2022, Maupin was expelled from the organization by the CPI Executive Committee in response to his abuses outlined in an exposé letter.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Center for Political Innovation|newspaper=Twitter|title=An important update from the Center for Political Innovation|date=2022-8-21|url=https://twitter.com/CPIUSA/status/1561369337138556930|retrieved=2022-8-21|quote=Therefore, the CPI Executive Commitee has elected to unconditionally expel Maupin from the organization.}}</ref> Later that day, the remaining leadership unanimously voted to disband the organization entirely.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Center for Political Innovation|newspaper=Twitter|title=Post|date=2022-8-21|url=https://twitter.com/CPIUSA/status/1561462126828404736|retrieved=2022-8-21|quote=As of 3pm CST August 21, 2022, the executive committee of the Center for Political Innovation has unanimously voted to dissolve the organization in its entirety and all operating facets. All dues-paying memberships will be canceled in the next 24 hours as the operation winds down.}}</ref> Additionally on the 21st, Caleb sent a message to his Patrons announcing his temporary withdrawal from social media.<ref>"Patrons,

CPI has shut down. I am going to be mostly silent for the coming weeks. I have closed down my twitter and facebook.

I intend to resurface at some point, but right now we all must ride out the storm. It will be very bad for the next week or so, but then things will calm. We are facing an all out attack and smear campaign.

I am making only this public statement:

A lot of lies about me & what has gone on in CPI are being told, but I clearly have made some very big mistakes. I need time away from social media to get the help I need to ensure I never bring any aspect of my sex life into political spaces ever again. I also need time to straighten out my personal life, and deal with how this has affected my family. When I feel I’m ready, I will likely return to social media, but these things take time. I know I let a lot of people down and we all need time to process this.

Feel free to circulate it if you want.

If you want to stick around and continue offering support to help my family get through this rough spot, that is deeply appreciated.

If you choose to leave because of the fact that I obviously made big mistakes, regardless of the outrageous lies they are being packaged in, I completely understand.

This is not the last of me or the City Building Tendency. But right now we must make a strategic retreat.

Best wishes to you all."

- Caleb Maupin to his Patron supporters

https://twitter.com/MaupinAFA/status/1561868377810927617?s=20&t=wsCzYxMzq3nAs7MdJ_V3Lg</ref>

The dissolution would be short-lived however as the CPI is technically registered under Maupin's name as a private business, thus legally making him the owner<ref>{{Web citation|author=New York State Department of State|newspaper=Open Gov NY|title=New York State Corporation Entity Center for Political Innovation Inc.|url=https://opengovny.com/corporation/6336676}}</ref> of what he preferred to call a think tank. The Executive Committee therefore had no power to remove Maupin from the CPI, as the business belongs to him alone.

Maupin first published a self-serving apology video on YouTube<ref name=":1" /> to mark his comeback, before reopening the CPI a few days later. Since then, the CPI has continued to work like it did before as Maupin's property.

== See also ==

* [[U.S. Labor Party]]
* [[American Communist Party (current)]]
* [[LaRouche movement]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Destructive cults]]
[[Category:Think tanks]]