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  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    2 years ago

    I was enjoying some random but impressive film analysis only to realize that coincidentaly I was watching an actual radical leftist

    Yeah a few other channels like that were instrumental in it all finally clicking for me and figuring out I was a communist. That maybe I was always a communist I just didn't have the proper vocabulary to understand my own ideology fully.

    • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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      2 years ago

      What other channels made things click for you, if you don't mind sharing? I couldn't even really watch youtube until like 2018 (bandwidth capped rural internet). By then I was already a commie, albeit with some tenacious lingering brainworms I'd like to think have since been extracted. So Renegade Cut was just like this great find... felt like finally spotting a true leftist in the wild and even better, it was someone whose work I already liked for other reasons and on top of that, someone whose radicalization process I could really identify with.

      I hear you on long ago being leftist at heart, even if you couldn't always articulate it. Starting out with a healthy commitment to empathy goes a long way, I think, in at least questioning a lot of the more disgusting and obvious contradictions of capitalism.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        2 years ago

        Can't think of many off the top of my head, since I've consumed so much of that stuff since 2016, but the Matt Christman rant about eco-fascism after the Charlottesville car attack was a big oh shit moment, and while some of his framing is sort of lib another one about the inefficacies of liberalism to fight fascism is the Innuendo Studios series the Alt-Right playbook. Also ContraPoints helped me expunge a lot of deeply rooted and unexamined transphobia. Jacob Gellar is also a great leftist media critic.