Coach Red Pill effectively committed suicide by criticizing Ukraine while living in a Ukraine under siege by Russia.
You can criticize your own group while living within it but it is not easy. The only way to go is to place your criticism under the umbrella of group interest. If you expose groomers, cheats and threats within your own community, you might well have majority community support. If I were to out a sexual predator of children within Los Angeles Orthodox Judaism, most Los Angeles Orthodox Jews would not be offended. On the other hand, if Los Angeles Jews were trying to survive a Holocaust, publicly exposing problems in the community would be unwise.
If you are living as a resident stranger in a country at war, it is suicidal to publicly attack your host and side with its invader. That’s what Lira did, and given his weak health, that was a suicidal strategy. In addition, he had an exaggerated sense of the value of what he was doing. In the end, all he did was kill himself. He didn’t save Western civilization.
Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López, February 29, 1968 – January 12, 2024) was a Chilean-American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, political commentator, blogger, YouTuber, and self-styled dating coach. At one point in his career as a novelist, Lira was described as the ‘highest paid Chilean writer in the world’. Lira would later become involved in the manosphere, posting anti-feminist content under the name Coach Red Pill. By the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lira had been living in Ukraine for years. As a resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Lira vlogged about the Russian invasion, and was described by Ukrainian officials and Western researchers and media as spreading Russian disinformation and propaganda.
In April 2022, Lira disappeared briefly, stating upon his release he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In May 2023, Lira was again arrested by the SBU, and this time charged with ‘producing and publishing material that tried to justify the ongoing Russian invasion’, something illegal under Ukrainian law. Lira was released on bail and subsequently tried to flee the country. He was arrested again for violating his bail conditions, and died of pneumonia in custody on January 12, 2024.
