MoveOn on Instagram: "Every four years, some third-party presidential candidates appear, eager to cash in on genuine frustrations with our political system. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen this time."
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15K likes, 1,260 comments - moveon on November 1, 2024: "Every four years, some third-party presidential candidates appear, eager to cash in on genuine frustrations with our political system. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen this time.".

I live in LA and I seen this guy before spewing endless dumb stories about his tv show to young poor innocent women.

I just imagine this video as a POV of a 22 year old girl he randomly approached at the bar and started talking to about politics for no reason.

  • Jabril [none/use name]
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    19 days ago

    They make fun content at Dropout but lord are they the ultimate radlibs

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      19 days ago

      Beardsley got arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest wearing a “not in our name” shirt. I believe they also donated a bunch of the previous mini auction proceeds to pro-Palestinian charity. And they’re all extremely good on labor issues. I dunno if I’d go as far as saying they’re radlibs. Some of them are, but not all.

      • Jabril [none/use name]
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        19 days ago

        Yeah Beardsley getting arrested and also not promoting voting stuff is why I excluded them but giving money to charity and being pro-labor can easily be lib positions in the current climate. Giving money to Palestinian charities and then saying vote for Kamala is not even radlib, its just lib

    • REgon [they/them]
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      19 days ago

      I feel like most of them are past the radlib point,[1] but I do make a point of not really following anything political they do.

      1. excluding Grant, who is a turbolib ↩︎

      • Jabril [none/use name]
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        19 days ago

        Outside of Ally Beardsley who I have not seen promote voting for Kamala or taking part in fundraisers and phone banking for Kamala, the rest of them are at most on the LA DSA mailing list and otherwise just make more and more money in Hollywood and get hired into more and more Hollywood jobs. Even Brennan was just promoting voting on his stories yesterday, these are the "free Gaza, vote Kamala" types of libs who want the aesthetics of leftism as a virtue signal and marketing tactic. I follow a lot of them and have been seeing all the cringe most of them have been posting

        • REgon [they/them]
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          19 days ago

          Yeah Grant is gone. Dude likes the West Wing.
          Beardsley seems rad as far as I can tell. They're in court right now for shutting down the freeway for a protest against the genocide in Gaza.

          Brennan

          Dude has always had a bit of a "being leftist for clout"-vibe, though I don't think there's a lot of people who actually do that, since it's so much easier shilling for the right. But as much as I like the stuff he does he has had a bit of a sort of vibe I guess. On the other hand he seems like a genuine dude who does a lot of good stuff. And now he's a dad, which tends to make most well-off people mellow out significantly.

          I follow a lot of them and have been seeing all the cringe most of them have been posting

          Dang. I felt like they were better than that. Money makes people worse ig.

          • Jabril [none/use name]
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            19 days ago

            I enjoy most of their content and most of them seem like fun and cool people as far as people go, Grant being one of my least favorite for several reasons but still funny sometimes. I think it is less a "leftist for clout" situation at the outset and more like what most radlibs (dem socs, anarchists especially) do which is sincerely want a better world but have a very surface level of theoretical development and will not prioritize that over developing a career and becoming a stable beneficiary of imperialism treat enjoyer. I have high hopes for Beardsley to be the vanguard of dropout employees but I think it is more likely that dropout's continued success will lead them all in the direction of $$

            and tbh I am harsh and think calling to vote for kamala is cringe but its a pretty standard and typical position in this country and it isn't surprising that publicly these up and coming celebrities would want to seem like "normal progressives" even if they have deeper more revolutionary desire, hopefully that is the case but I have a lot of doubt about that

          • Jabril [none/use name]
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            19 days ago

            I had high hopes for him and do love his work but yeah he definitely could do better to embody the characters he is very good at writing and portraying. Although he is now a parent and is becoming progressively more wealthy through a career in Hollywood so it is much more likely that his trajectory will trend the other way

      • casskaydee [she/her]
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        19 days ago

        The guy who owns Dropout is literally the son of Clinton's Secretary of Labor and they made this