• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    So fucking frustrating when you say "Big finance is destroying this country" and people reply with "that sounds antisemitist" because it has literally become an antisemitist talking point.

    Just like how being anti-war is now just pro-Russia/China and being pro-hygenie is just shilling for Bill Gates and Big Pharma.

    Material analysis is dead when everything is just a dog whistle for another thing.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      that's true, but Maupin himself dipped way too far into the other end. Read his book "Satan at the Fountainhead." He fails to give a materialist analysis, and so when he defines the enemy, he talks in vague terms about western bankers or media financiers. It also doesn't help that he attaches this group to Israel, but fails to define why they're attached to Israel other than accusations of western imperialism promoted by undefined financial institutions. The book ends with a remix of the 14 words, except with Americans instead of white people.

      It's bad, Maupin is either an antisemite or a stooge, and his organization was full of sex pests anyway. Good riddance to him and his stupid "patriotic" organization.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        He won't be missed. But he's so fucking loud, you can't hear the superior analysis over his obnoxious online presence.

        People talk shit about a host of leftist-libs (your Zizeks and Chompskys and Natalies and Liams and assorted UK-based Breadtubers) but every day I'm grateful anything other than InfraRed and JBP competing for space in my suggestion feed.

        Even Alice talking about the JFK assassination is better than this trash.

          • panopticon [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            They hold mainstream views and try to steer viewers back into the liberal centrist orthodoxy, so even though they're on the fringe I think they're still effective at their role of recuperating individuals who start to question capitalism, imperialism, and so on

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            For me these fringe “leftist” orgs are 99% psyops

            What? Podcasters?

            Eh. If the Pod Damn America people are cops, I'm just going to write this all off as a simulation.

            At that level, you're just denying Communists even exist.