• DICK_SUCKING_FACTORY [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I think BJG is a uniquely tragic figure in American politics currently, in a way that nobody can really match

    you genuinely believe in radical politics, put your eggs in the wrong basket (Bernie Panders) and cement your career as the "succdem" dude. No matter what she does or what she wants to tell her listeners, to get her guests of three-letter-word agency approved guests, she needs to have some sort of public investment in a ritual that anyone who isn't a fucking dipshit would have checked out from election night 2020. She knows enough about how the sausage is made that what she posts and her podcast are basically fucking worthless, but there isn't a viable alternative for her. Either she does what she is currently and writes her name in The Book of the Dead, communicating in ways exclusive to the sickos that I genuinely believe she hates, or she points out that this communication and subculture she's a figurehead of is as thin as drywall, and gets to work as an Walmart assistant manager until her body returns to the clay.

    She still deserves her scorn. I still just find it hard not to have some level of pity.

    • 8006 [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I feel a small amount of pity until I see her estimated earnings.

    • Zodiark
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      4 months ago

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    • aramettigo [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Is there another option for her and podcasters like her? I'm including Matt in that btw. The vlogs were important, still are, but most important are the admissions that he'll basically do anything to avoid real work again. Like probably take thiel money lol.

      What's wrong with actually doing some work, so that you're feeling what people feel in the real world and not always calling your audience "they", and podcasting a couple of hours a week around that? The whole point of podcasting and the DIY tech around it is that you don't need the expensive media infrastructure. You can podcast around your work with just a mike.

      If you're so big on electoralism why didn't the comms person for Bernie campaign work on some local campaign and podcast from the coffee room or whatever. India Walton or literally any other candiate on the left could have used her surely.

      I mean, even some kind of make work job for a couple of days a week, so they don't totally lose touch with people, should be a condition of being a left podcaster.

      edit: I do have sympathy for BJG. The right hate her, the khive/hilarystan/democrats hate her more, and here we are criticizing.