• Rojo27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I used to think that TYT was a good gateway for libs to become leftist, but I'm starting to doubt its even capable of the most mild push left.

    • notthenameiwant [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Cenk is a union buster who screams at workers over the mildest inconvenience. He's a piece of shit with a progressive veneer to people who aren't paying attention.

      No idea where his co-hosts are on the political scale though.

      • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        ana kasparian has been getting more radicalized. she was doing a show with michael brooks up until he passed on jacobin's youtube. with her new co-host I feel like she's amped up her anti-corporate rhetoric and has adopted some marxists terminology.

        but yes cenk is trash. this might not mean much to y'all, but his pro-war stance on the nagorno-karabagh war made him irredeemable to me. theres no such thing as a comrade who supports aggression in ethnic conflicts which might lead to cleansings...its the most basic litmus test for me.

        I'll give hasan piker credit for having a good take on that war.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Who the fuck isn't solidly on the side of Armenia in that war?

          • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            turks. like 95% of them. being a speaker of the language, seeing how excited they are to go to war, it's hard to remain optimistic. I might unironically be a stalinist.

        • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          John Ladarola is obviously a lib but he isn't so bad either as part of the beginning of the pipeline. It's really Cenk that's bringing everyone else down.

      • Caocao [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        he said the US military was socialism lmao

      • vorenza [any]
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        4 years ago

        To pursue a way more lucrative streaming career?

        • throwawaylemmy2 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          His "streaming" didn't take off for a while. He basically left a "sure-job" to try it and his streams were like sub-2K at the time. It's only after the Twitch ban (IIRC) that he started to pick up steam on Twitch.

          I don't knock his work ethic (10+ hour streams a day) but I highly doubt "making Twitch money" was at the top of his list for leaving his Uncle's network.

          • ElGosso [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            2k is still a pretty massive twitch stream all things considered

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            4 years ago

            No i remember it, he went part-time at 2-3K subs, he fully left some time after Crenshaw incident(when he had 7-8K subs)

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          4 years ago

          Hasan is the left wing version of Jesse Lee Peterson. Both incredibly stupid but can be kinda funny at times.

    • FireAxel [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I started my journey with TYT back in 2016 when Bernie first ran, but haven't watched in like 3 years since I moved on to better online news shows, but man, I honestly don't remember it being this bad.

      I occasionally see a clip or a Cenk tweet and I'm amazed that I used to think that I was a "radical" for watching TYT and thinking CNN sucked lol. Now I find it laughable that anybody would consider TYT "radical."

      I mean, sure, better them than CNN and MSNBC, but still, it's very mild "leftism" (big fucking quotes).

      Ana seemed cool when she'd go on Michael Brooks' show at least.

      • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        tbh it is radical when you’re only options are msnbc and cnn jesus christ. i had the same trajectory tbh so i don’t blame you