https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1313253932987187201
just to clarify, this is a joke and not actually trying to cancel matt lol
Too late, bb. You've made an enemy of the Matt Christman fanclub. Mrowwwwwww~
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Irony poisoning is real. When's the last time any of them actually sounded serious about the situation we're all in? It's all hot takes on memed-to-death leftist struggle sessions.
I will give him that his Cushvlogs are certainly more serious than any of the other Chapo associated projects right now. I guess its probably pretty hard to go an hour everyday without at least a little deviation from seriousness, but I still have issues with his pessimism of the movement today and socialist experiments of the past. I understand it, but its just unfortunate and IMO counter-productive
Bad Faith has a good mix of seriousness and humor. Always bringing on guests or panelists seems to help with that.
I mean can you blame him with the pessimism. The party that is supposedly "for the working class," ISN'T. Repeatedly. And somehow they get a enough votes to continue to be part of the "two party" system instead of another (third) party taking their thunder.
Exactly why the only real answer lies outside of electoralism
Right. His last "hope" was with Bernie and that got nuked. So... why look forward/have hope when the "movement" gets crushed by the party/people that say they'd be for it?
I mean, it's not like he HASN'T tried to establish third parties (he created the Socialist party in Ohio, IIRC). But he knows that shit isn't really gonna get there if people continue to NOT avoid voting Democrat because "lol why try? It's a two party system," etc.
Their last hope was Bernie, and then he went and endorsed Biden and continues to campaign for him. They can't seem to get past the fact that they were incorrect in their analysis, like seriously; get over yourselves, pick yourselves up, realize you have a massive following, and throw your energy behind movements that are actually doing material good.
The icing on this shit cake is that one of the potential answers, the Hawkins campaign, was right in front of the Chapos but they decided to give Jesse Ventura a joke endorsement before that campaign fizzled out immediately. Matt needs a stomach pump to extract that god damn grill pill.
"PSL? Green Party? Never heard of them! Check out this DSA drama and Marianne Williamson tho..."
realize you have a massive following, and throw your energy behind movements that are actually doing material good.
I mean, I'm pretty sure they realize they CAN do good (Bernie), but their "doing good" isn't enacting change (hence Matt's doomer/pessimism). They can throw their weight behind those third parties, but: Will their weight actually matter? To put in better wording, it's like the "Colbert bump" back in Stephen Colbert's conservative-character-bit-era: He would shine a light things, but the "wave"/boost was pretty temporary (from what I remember) like a "reddit/Slashdot hug-of-death" effect.
Matt is serious enough that he's actually cried on stream talking about stuff that was going on, like the police backlash against protestors. He's more sincere than most pundits who don't make any jokes at all.
I just wish he used that energy and put it towards more. And I mean its totally unfair of me to sit here and say when I reflect on it, since I have the same hardships with getting physically involved past my own head sometimes. Its just that he's got a huge platform and he could be putting that towards ventures that have a real chance of making material difference. And that may come with time, in which case I would wholeheartedly endorse the grillpill again, I'm just saying
I get what you mean. He's said before that he's not in the DSA anymore, even though he founded a chapter, because he doesn't want his association with Chapo to make the DSA look bad. I think it's that kind of worry that keeps him from doing the stuff you would want him to do.
I think he does a lot of valuable propaganda, though. Just bringing more people to the left is valuable, but he's also inspired a lot of people (according to posts on his subreddit and the chat on his stream) to do IRL organizing. I think that his ship in a bottle metaphor made a lot of people realize that what they thought of as doing politics online is worthless and doesn't give you any skills for doing politics IRL.
Edit: He also said that he wants to be part of the Belden Program if that ever becomes anything. Since Brace has such a good track record, it could happen.
God forbid Matt posts a take about a TV show about John Brown on Twitter.
I know this is sarcastic, but I really do think that it's kinda sus how much airplay John Brown gets over say, Nat Turner and Geronimo.
do you think r/CTH would've been quar & banned for posts about how Nat Turner and Geronimo were justified?
Ok but the replies are talking about some kinda show. Please tell me this is 100% shitpost and not 80% shitpost based on whats airing on showtime or whatever.
