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  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Absolutely, John Oliver may not be a "leftist" but we shouldn't trash him, we need people like him in mainstream media to spread vaguely left ideas.

    The far right has a massive array of talking heads spreading their beliefs while people like John Oliver are pretty much the closest we'll get (with a non-negligible audience).

    Like yeah, we can jerk each other off over our ideological purity alongside the other couple thousand chapo chat users while the fascists share their propaganda with millions of people every single day. People like John Oliver are the closest to allies in mainstream media that we'll get.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If just tankies or whatever we call them now were the only ones doing videos, I wouldn't have even gone left.

    • LucyTheBrazen [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Hell, he might even be a leftist, and smart enough to stay inside lib takes to not lose the platform.

      Image him going full Marxist, he'd be off HBO immediately

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Eh, his Vuvuzela episode was peak lib shit but I think he's being radicalized similarly to Robert Evans by recent events.

        Source: My radicalization followed a very similar trajectory to theirs and people like Cody Johnston (though I suspect Cody was always a little more radical than he let on).