After his TikTok account was deleted and his YouTube channel de-monetised, pro-Palestine content creator Rathbone migrated to right-wing Rumble. Seems like an odd choice based strictly on ideology, and I figure it's probably only a matter of time before Rumble kicks him too, simply on the Palestine question alone.

So that begs the question - how capable is Tankie Tube of absorbing a popular content creator? Assuming this is going to continue to happen more and more (Hasanabi seems like he's on the Twitch chopping block at this very moment).

Paging @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net

Not a lib.

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      6 hours ago

      All I've ever seen him make are pro-palestine videos, I am not aware of any "closet" maga shit but maybe I'm off base.

      • HomoSexualTransStalinist [she/her]
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        13 hours ago

        iirc he was working in a private school as a music teacher and then quit to start a band with one of his 13 or 14 year old students. In the article about the band i read he also described her as "very mature for her age"

      • miz [any, any]
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        19 hours ago

        love too drop an allegation like this with no backup and then not respond for hours

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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          18 hours ago

          By pure luck I can answer some of that, basically he had a 14yo bandmate that he said was his 'muse' and stuff like that, he used to give her music lessons then they formed a 'band' and he wanted to run away with her I think? It's just a very weird situation. Last I heard she left the band, I think this was before he started making tiktoks, don't know if they're still in contact.

          Tbh rathbone is wrong about a lot of stuff all the time and he's a patsoc.

          • Pili [any, any]
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            18 hours ago

            I knew he was hanging out with Midwestern Marx but I didn't know about the grooming allegations. Thanks for providing context.

              • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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                11 hours ago

                Oh yeah... he takes a rightist view on issue of Amerikkka being a settler-colonial country, saying that American nationalism chauvinism should be repurposed towards socialist patriotic purposes, patsoc/MAGA,

                Considering socialist patriotism is more aligned with post-national liberation framework and self-determination for its new independent, native people and its indigenous minorities, than a settler-state based on the former's displacement and eradiction by foreign potential small capitalists, aided by empire, this take on Amerikkka is heavily flawed