Or does he just have some hot/weird takes that got him in trouble?
Someone on Reddit told me he (Rovics) thinks Matthew Heimbach has reformed, for instance. Reading Heimbach's Wikipedia page he still sounds like a massive Nazbol to me (emphasis on the Naz)
I struggle to believe Rovics could make a mistake like that. I've listened to all his music, never seen him miss in a song that I can think of. Also talked to him prior to learning this and he seems cool to me
I'm suspended on Reddit for 3 days. That's why I'm asking here for now. Most charitable thing might be to ask Rovics to explain himself, but I'd have to make a Twitter account again
I didn't know who Rovics was prior to listening to that interview with Heimbach a couple weeks ago(I stalk the activities of 'reformed nazis' like Heimbach because I'm fascinated by how fucking stupid they are.) But whatever it is that made Rovics renowned on the left, he sounds to me like a naïve, gullible and somewhat dimwitted person.
Heimbach made it abundantly clear that he was still in every sense of the word a nazi but all that shit flew over Rovics' head as he gushed over the idiot nazi's workerist platitudes. At one point one of them literally said they hadn't read much of Marx because his writings were too difficult and the other agreed. Then Heimbach the imbecile made a reference to Marx's 'On The Jewish Question' making it perfectly clear that that was one of Marx's many writings he hadn't read/understood by incorrectly projecting his own anti-Semitic bullshit onto Marx. The nazi said Marx wrote 'jews hold a disproportionate amount of power'(he didn't!) which, if you're familiar with nazis, you'll know is just a diplomatic way of saying a very different thing. Rovics made no objections. Heimbach made some toned down comment about 'whites' to which, again, while it was obvious what he meant, Rovics made no objection to.
Idk why people even call these people 'nazbols', the nazi's themselves were what we would now call 'workerists'...Heimbach is following that playbook to a T. His understanding of socialism literally boils down to a friend-enemy distinction between 'workers' and 'capitalists.'
anyways, sorry for the rant, but I don't understand why anyone would have enough respect for Rovics to give enough of a shit about whether he gets cancelled or not. I don't know what he's famous for but based on that interview he sounds to me like the worst, most dangerous kind of socialist(the kind that would defect to the fascist side once push came to shove)
Don't apologise for screeds. Speed screeds or any other kind of screed. Unless it's bad, e.g. Mein Kampf what meth does to shitty people
Just don't overshare to a problematic point
Give me a few hours to reply. Haven't slept in 48+ hours. My eyes are starting to fuck up to the point of being annoying. That's where I draw the line. Used to draw it at hearing things (not joking). Never seriously heard voices but I'd get hear music in the human of sn electric fan. Sorry for self-absorbed aspects of certain posts. Trying to only tell anecdotes I think might help others