is defending a thought leader YouTuber on reddit a good use of your time?

I’ve never been a fan of this mentality that debating topics like this is a waste of time. People act like others posting about this stuff takes up hours upon hours of their time lol

Hey! That was it. Posted.

Wait so you’re criticizing a podcast you don’t even listen to lol

Why? Optimism when everything is shit and has 0 signs of getting better is just religion.

You really showed your hand here. It just screams cynical atheist shit. Without revolutionary optimism, you just fall down into a nihilistic reactionary hole. Things ARE happening even if you want to deny material reality.

The fact that you defend small business tyrants further down the thread just adds onto it.

Sorry I tried, but the page wouldn’t show up when I searched for it.

I agree. I like the boys, but even their podcasts can be tiresome to listen to because they usually only have on American guests or other westerners and talk about American topics despite it being an international podcast.

lol They actually have nonwesterners on their show and go to great lengths to talk about nonwestern issues, but go off.

I actually agree with this guy for the most part. Hakim and Parenti are definitely not liberals lol, but there is some wishful thinking when it comes to the lead up and outcome of communism.

I don’t. Also, revolutionary optimism is a good thing.

Wait, why did he take down so many of his old videos?

YouTube took them down mysteriously. Hakim has been trying to get them back, but it seems since he remade one of his older videos, it must not be going well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/14z3abw/is_hakim_a_good_source_for_learning_about/?rdt=62293

“Far-left” lol

This thread is so disingenous, it’s unbelievable. It’s entire orgin is based on the fact that the OP came to the defense of someone who misgendered TC69 and this thread is just some weird backdoor to bash her. It’s really petty.

Attacking people for innocuous(at worst) terms is a great way for us to not be taken seriously.

They’ve been writing things similar to this sentence over the course of 2 threads and it’s such nonsense. It paints a completely inaccurate picture of the site and the situation.

ill certainly try to remember to check pronouns of inactive accounts before i talk about them

Sarcastic responses like this just prove what I’m saying is true.

It’s not like they’re going to respond to it either, they blocked me lol

How often do you ask bad faith questions?

I believe this issue essentially stems from the fact that the user’s profile was linked in the conversation, but another user didn’t bother to click it to check their pronouns.

2 points:

At 6:40, she actually cites Parenti and I feel offended on his behalf

At 12:23, she implies that Chapo support “debauchery and a lack of morals”.

She actually has an excuse for this! She claims it’s a conspiracy perpetuated by Hollywood.

It isn’t even the “slightest disagreement”. I have a problem with her because she has a history of making questionable statements and she isn’t a socialist (if she is, she definately puts in effort to conceal that fact). I’d say the left has solidarity and it’s growing every day. Only people like Johnstone, who hold ignorant views, see the left as being alienated from each other. I expect a “Why I left the left” essay from her any day now.

He made a video called “The First World ‘Left’ Will Never Matter Again - The Hard Truth You Need to Hear”, which is NOT a very good video. He told people in first world countries to move abroad instead of staying and trying to change material conditions.

Also in the comments of the video, he downplayed what is happening with Cop City as “sitting in a forest in Atlanta” and said “No one outside the us should waste any energy on thinking about them. They sure don’t think about us.” when someone asked for international solidarity regarding it.

Dude won’t even join an org.

Who’s saying that? Yeah, there’s no doubt people are listening to the song, but c’mon 9.5 million views in 5 days? I’m sorry, most of those views are 100 percent astroturfed.

650,000 people die of the flu every year. Do you support governments forcing everyone to take a flu vaccine, and if not why are you an evil anti-vaxxer who wants to murder 650,000 people a year?

My point of course is not that Covid is the flu, it’s that everyone who supports vaccine mandates has a line at which they believe they not be justified. It just happens that I and many others do not believe Covid is the line where such measures are just.

It’s not that vaccine mandates are never justifiable under any circumstances; a sufficiently deadly virus with a sufficiently excellent vaccine could make a solid case that such intrusive measures are necessary. It’s that this particular virus and vaccines don’t make such a case.

Three statements about mandates from her. As far I as I could tell, she hasn’t said anything about lockdowns being bad, so I misremembered.

Nah, she really isn’t. Aside from that she was spreading Pizzagate conspiracy nonsense as well as anti-lockdown/anti-vaccine mandate statements.

Leftists are dismissing the song because its early interest was astroturfed.

No, leftists dismissed the song before the astroturfing was discovered. After it was found out, it just reinforced what people thought to begin with.

She later deleted it saying:

Gonna delete my “Rich Men North of Richmond” thread because too many people are mistaking it for an argument in defense of the song, which it isn’t. My fault for not communicating better. I’ll probably write an article fleshing out my thoughts later on.

Sure, Caitlin, we misunderstood what you were trying to say lol