She should have :virgil-sad: on, I heard he had his free speech removed due to cancel culture.

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    what if we had our own socialist big tent and it was big enough to hold all the democrats too

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      As socialists we need to be smart and do stuff that Democrats would never do, like reach across the aisle and give Republicans anything they ask for.

      • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        As a Principled Communist, I realize that we must build productive forces by giving Raytheon ginormous contracts

      • leonadas444 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Kind of why I don't listen to brie or people adjacent to her anymore. I get tired of anti-idpol rhetoric coming from that sect.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          3 years ago

          Makes me feel weird thinking that Michael Brooks would have probably been in that general orbit if he was still around. He talked about cancel culture a lot and that always felt off to me

          • leonadas444 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            His sister claimed he disliked idpol after he passed, but he always seemed very enthusiastic about Social justice causes outside of the economic sphere. He did complain about 'Cancel culture' along with Ben Burgis quite a bit, but I never thought he was a class only type of guy or anything.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              3 years ago

              God I still can't believe that Ben Burgis wrote a book called "Canceling Comedians While The World Burns" without a hint of irony

              • leonadas444 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Yeah I remember that. Didn't even bother reading it, never liked Ben as much as Michael.

                You want someone who's really bad though, take a look at Angela Nagle. I honestly think she was a closet bigot tbf. She wrote a very weird article about Ireland and immigration.

                • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                  3 years ago

                  Yeah, Ben's always sucked. Shortly before Michael passed, I remember there was a Chris Rock clip that started circulating where he said that maybe not all cops are bad, but some jobs that's not good enough. Like, an airline can't say "most of our pilots like to land". Michael brought Ben on and he legit spent 15 minutes explaining that joke word by word, it was excruciating. This has nothing to do with him having chud-light opinions, it's just my most vivid memory of his appearances on TMBS.