Mostly talking about stuff like breadtubers, chapo, and media personalities like that, I can kind of tell why people like Bernie and Jezza where they're at. Is it the added wealth being a popular media personality gives you, the need to give a consistent product, the need to appeal to a wide breadth of people, and so on?

edit: also props to Brett at RevLeft for continuing to radicalise himself as the show has gone on

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    I still like Chapo despite the doomer. Amber continues her 50/50 amazing/terrible take record and Matt is halfway down creating a form of Catholic Mysticism/Buddhism that comes from a Dialectical Materialist base.

    And a number of the Breadtubers have radicalised. Ollie basically just called Libs pointless idealists in his latest video and is pretty clearly a RevSoc now. ContraPoints is one bad day from finally snapping and becoming a Posadist-Transhumanist (Party line: "I say we take of and nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure").

    The John Olivers etc can't radicalise because they'd no longer be talking heads then. But even he is becoming increasingly critical of the system and the current attempts to resolve the political crisis.

    • Perplexiglass [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      creating a form of Catholic Mysticism/Buddhism that comes from a Dialectical Materialist base

      is pretty clearly a RevSoc

      becoming a Posadist-Transhumanist

      Jesus Christ, mate...

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Matt is halfway down creating a form of Catholic Mysticism/Buddhism that comes from a Dialectical Materialist base.

      Will Elizabeth Bruenig and Michael Brooks be saints in this new religion?