First of all I am not american, so my political understanding of the US only comes the internet so maybe am wrong about what I am about to write.

I was watching some clips of Nick Fuentes and while the things he says are completly awful, he is a very entreating guy to hear, and what's more important, he has the ability to talk in public to a large amount of people. But the problem is that while the far-right has this charismatic guy who is able to gather a very large crowd, the american left lacks some charcter who is likable to the masses. Bernie Sanders is the only one I can think of, but he is old and after the election he is losing relevancy.

So my question is ¿can a left leaning, Nick-like character create an independent movent?

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Any individual on the left who becomes famous in the US has two things happen:

    1. the state will focus on them and tear them down

    2. other leftists will do their best to tear them down

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    4 years ago

    Movements aren't made through individualist actions. Those are cults. Movements are grown through collective action around a central premise. Individuals can help it along or even act as a spark to help get it really going, but they aren't created from nothing by individuals.

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      halfway through reading that i thought "wait, that guy who did the dont know what time it is video?"

        • ToastGhost [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          theres two of them?

          also ive never heard about the sex pest thing, elaborate

          • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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            4 years ago

            In like 2015 Nick Robinson (no relation to Nathan J.) was a video game journalist at polygon.com. He and Polygon cofounder Griffin McElroy had a small but enthusiastic fandom surrounding their podcast CoolGames Inc. and their let's play series Car Boys and I'm pretty sure Nick was also writing features and reviews for the site. Then one day it came out on Twitter from multiple female devs that he had a habit of sliding into DMs, making lewd comments, begging for nudes, general creep shit. No one afaik accused him of physical assault or anything. Anyway he got fired from Polygon of course and went back to I think pretty much what he was doing before, which was independently making videos about his niche weeb video game interests.

            I'll admit I have a fascination with him. Like he's an interesting storyteller and a good editor sure, but a couple months after he got canned his apartment burned down and there's this video where he goes through his room full of mountains of collectibles and video game memorabilia all melted plastic covered in ash and soot and you realize that he's exactly what he appears to be; a babyfaced American otaku who for a moment had a comfortable media job writing and talking about his hobbies and insulated from human strife or politics but then he went and fucked it all up because he apparently couldn't get a grasp on how to act like a normal human being.

            • ToastGhost [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              interesting, i only knew of him cuz of the mcdonalds ds game video, and hes been in my recommended since.

              now i know who the other robinson youre talking about is, i typically just ignore peoples names on twitter when the screenshots show up here, so it didnt click right away.