I'm gonna be honest and take a risk here by saying that I think Russell embodies a kind of media literacy and ability to swim through the sea of bullshit in the world that the AVERAGE person is engaged in that a lot of the left is lacking.
I don't think he's going the way of Jimmy Dore and others. I think he just knows how to speak in ways that reaches and engages these people despite the fact he is absolutely a revolutionary leftist. I don't have the same cynicism that he's going to move away from that.
Anyone that does any offline UK organising at all will have seen him around speaking at events openly calling for revolution and firing up the crowd. He's not right wing and he's not going to disappear from speaking and promoting at events in the UK left because of this.
Yeah, like Awoo he's actually been really helpful to a couple of climate and evictions campaigns I've been around (even if sometime tangentially). I'd certainly wait and see although a sus shift wouldn't entirely surprise me either because I'm a terrible cynic.
I can understand why a creator would want to ditch YouTube for a platform that views censorship as anathema and I don't think it necessarily indicates a right wing turn.
On YouTube you have to avoid saying certain words (regardless of context) to avoid triggering the algorithm.
Some of the only people who seem to agree with me on lefty politics are also anti-vaxxers. It is an odd one, but I do not blame them for mistrusting literally everything they have ever been told by an authority figure.
Its frustrating, because I've read some legit criticism of mRNA as a technology, of the manufacturing process, of the patent system, of the means of testing and distribution, of reporting on efficacy...
I definitely understand the skepticism. But vaccination, broadly speaking, is just so well-established as effective and useful. Its like watching people slip from "American car culture is a massive waste of resources" to "the internal combustion engine doesn't actually work".
I get you. But I would argue that they are so badly educated about vaccinations from the get-go, that they probably never appreciated the benefits of having them at all.
I'm gonna be honest and take a risk here by saying that I think Russell embodies a kind of media literacy and ability to swim through the sea of bullshit in the world that the AVERAGE person is engaged in that a lot of the left is lacking.
I don't think he's going the way of Jimmy Dore and others. I think he just knows how to speak in ways that reaches and engages these people despite the fact he is absolutely a revolutionary leftist. I don't have the same cynicism that he's going to move away from that.
Anyone that does any offline UK organising at all will have seen him around speaking at events openly calling for revolution and firing up the crowd. He's not right wing and he's not going to disappear from speaking and promoting at events in the UK left because of this.
ehhhhh, that might be overly optimistic tbh
deleted by creator
I agree.
Yeah, like Awoo he's actually been really helpful to a couple of climate and evictions campaigns I've been around (even if sometime tangentially). I'd certainly wait and see although a sus shift wouldn't entirely surprise me either because I'm a terrible cynic.
I can understand why a creator would want to ditch YouTube for a platform that views censorship as anathema and I don't think it necessarily indicates a right wing turn.
On YouTube you have to avoid saying certain words (regardless of context) to avoid triggering the algorithm.
What was he banned for though? Is he really an antivaxer?
Some of the only people who seem to agree with me on lefty politics are also anti-vaxxers. It is an odd one, but I do not blame them for mistrusting literally everything they have ever been told by an authority figure.
Its frustrating, because I've read some legit criticism of mRNA as a technology, of the manufacturing process, of the patent system, of the means of testing and distribution, of reporting on efficacy...
I definitely understand the skepticism. But vaccination, broadly speaking, is just so well-established as effective and useful. Its like watching people slip from "American car culture is a massive waste of resources" to "the internal combustion engine doesn't actually work".
I get you. But I would argue that they are so badly educated about vaccinations from the get-go, that they probably never appreciated the benefits of having them at all.