It's really interesting to see all these weird cliques of political media personalities that have non-formally formed. There are the chud people associated with that one podcaster guy (and probably various other chud cliques that I know nothing about). There's the Assange/that group of people who had that big meeting speech thing yesterday "The Belmarsh Tribunal", and there's this "populist right-wing leftist" thing all these weirdos are doing, and then the "patsoc" thing which I guess already went off the rails. Obviously the second group is the only respectable one. And then I guess we have the small "dirtbag left" clique of the Chapos and affiliates, but that's not really the same thing. And somewhere in there people like Vijay Prashad, Yanis Varoufakis, etc. fit in as well. Just among weird political groups/leanings in the US/western world (that I'm familiar with).

At the end of the day it all feels pretty much meaningless since it's just comfortable people who have way too much to lose, giving speeches and talking to each other on podcasts. They're producing almost nothing other than Discourse™, but for 'left-wingers' that's better than nothing, and it's kind of comforting and horrifying at the same time.