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  • Secondthought_JT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Probably my least favorite content in the political sphere. I imagine a lot of that is my intensely negative interactions with the two big “lefty” debate bros. One of them routinely sends his little gremlins to brigade my videos. They’re a cancer. I’ve never been the biggest fan of debate in general, I’ve yet to see a compelling case that it actually changes minds. That could just be my own preconceived notions on the subject though

    • quartz242 [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the answer, yea the sad clout-chasing behavior of the big 4 (destiny, va*sh, keffals, and hasan) is a detriment. There is a good amount of dicussion here regarding the "pipeline" for leftist theory that these types of creators do however there is a notable sea-change towards trashing "tankies"

      Joke question feel free to disregard; how long until a U.S politician says "tankie" on television?

        • quartz242 [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          yeah hasan's primary content is react / news analysis however he has been dipping his toes into it with h3h3 & leftovers and the XQC "debates" but I would say those are the highest sub count political streamers idk I'm open to being wrong on this lol

          • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            might have more been a commentary on keffals being a drop in the bucket compared to those 3. even at her peak before the anticommunist/debatelord shit really kicked off she was much smaller.

            • quartz242 [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              That makes sense, and I agree but her twitter "presence" it outsized compared to viewer/sub count but for me she is like the quintessential representation of the "left" adjacent political/debate streamer as she is just so craven.

              • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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                1 year ago

                ah the based/cringe dichotomy not the high follower count/low follower count

                Is that pic even real? I mean it totally checks out but I couldn't find the source on google or tineye weirdly.

                • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  ah the based/cringe dichotomy not the high follower count/low follower count

                  Whatever their follower count, the 3 of them are the only streamers named who are taking part in an establishment dem stream stream tomorrow morning

                  Is that pic even real? I mean it totally checks out but I couldn't find the source on google or tineye weirdly.

                  @LiberalScratcher@hexbear.net was the one who posted it so maybe LiberalScratcher knows the source. Apparently it was taken by Brianna Wu

                  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    dang you're right. they did a pretty good job, by my standards at least. it looks a little off but no one thing made me go "definitely photoshopped" until I realized how uneven the grainyness was across the 3 of them and the background