First off, what a shit take, second off here's the obligatory bit
"Haha Tacoma is weepin-" BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
"Lol he said the n-word in a stream and-" BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
"lmao remember when he defended pedophilia by saying it wasn't any more exploitative than making laptops-" BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
Making a post demanding others stop Vaushposting, and then realizing that you yourself have now Vaushposted BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
it's not a bit, unironically shut the fuck up about him and stop giving him attention. this goes for any other e-celeb you hate and think gets too much attention: you can just ignore them.
you’re definitely not wrong, he’s a waste of our time. but i come here to see terrible takes for entertainment. + I think it actually helps my ideological development to hear garbage takes
Making a post demanding others stop Vaushposting, and then realizing that you yourself have now Vaushposted BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
I think if someone is already as well known as Vaush it doesn't make a difference. It's definitely true for obscure idiots though, I've seen a leftbook group propel an irrelevant obscure moron into fame like that.
Using the verbiage of revolutionary theory doesn't make Vaush any more "on the left" than stupidpol or their counterparts in the Democratic Party. The guy is an opportunist who butchers revolutionary theory to justify his lame positions. He is more interested in promoting himself than he is in promoting an understanding of revolutionary history, theory, or class struggle. In one breath he'll quote-mine Lenin to justify voting for Biden. In the next, he'll criticize people who are actually engaged in class struggle from his gamer chair because they are problematic for the Democratic Party. The most unnuanced Anarchist can look at this guy breathlessly apologize for the most powerful person on Earth and tell he's a fraud. Marxists listen to him try to explain how Marxism is actually a type of Liberalism and their jaws drop. The guy isn't even an anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist. He is an advocate for incremental reformism within the confines of the system as it exists.
Political education is critical to the anti-capitalist movement. To overthrow such an expansive and ingrained system, it is vital to understand its history and to develop a sound understanding of the social forces at work. Only then can we effectively organize people to dismantle it. When people misrepresent history and theory it is harmful to the cause.
Theory is open to critique, and history open to re-evaluation. No one is omnipotent, so we all see the world from different perspectives. People make mistakes too, that is how we learn. But when someone like Vaush claims to be a representative of the Left and repeatedly makes mistakes that could have been avoided by reading the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article, that's bad. That is not helping. There are better places where we can be directing people's attention. Places that actually help us understand the socioeconomic forces and class relations we need to navigate instead of obscuring them.
it’s like the opposite of liz & brace - they come off as a bit bumbling and simple, but under the surface they are incredibly ideologically consistent and filled to the brim with knowledge
First off, what a shit take, second off here's the obligatory bit
"Haha Tacoma is weepin-"
BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
"Lol he said the n-word in a stream and-"
BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
"lmao remember when he defended pedophilia by saying it wasn't any more exploitative than making laptops-"
BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
Making a post demanding others stop Vaushposting, and then realizing that you yourself have now Vaushposted
BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
it's not a bit, unironically shut the fuck up about him and stop giving him attention. this goes for any other e-celeb you hate and think gets too much attention: you can just ignore them.
Wait but this is the dunk tank what else is this for?
shit that's a good point
you’re definitely not wrong, he’s a waste of our time. but i come here to see terrible takes for entertainment. + I think it actually helps my ideological development to hear garbage takes
Making a post demanding others stop Vaushposting, and then realizing that you yourself have now Vaushposted
BONK
You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.
vaushposting in the haram [state] recursively for eternity :agony-limitless:
Literally a Munchausen Trilemma right here.
I think if someone is already as well known as Vaush it doesn't make a difference. It's definitely true for obscure idiots though, I've seen a leftbook group propel an irrelevant obscure moron into fame like that.
He’s still on the left. Why wouldn’t you want him to get attention?
Using the verbiage of revolutionary theory doesn't make Vaush any more "on the left" than stupidpol or their counterparts in the Democratic Party. The guy is an opportunist who butchers revolutionary theory to justify his lame positions. He is more interested in promoting himself than he is in promoting an understanding of revolutionary history, theory, or class struggle. In one breath he'll quote-mine Lenin to justify voting for Biden. In the next, he'll criticize people who are actually engaged in class struggle from his gamer chair because they are problematic for the Democratic Party. The most unnuanced Anarchist can look at this guy breathlessly apologize for the most powerful person on Earth and tell he's a fraud. Marxists listen to him try to explain how Marxism is actually a type of Liberalism and their jaws drop. The guy isn't even an anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist. He is an advocate for incremental reformism within the confines of the system as it exists.
Political education is critical to the anti-capitalist movement. To overthrow such an expansive and ingrained system, it is vital to understand its history and to develop a sound understanding of the social forces at work. Only then can we effectively organize people to dismantle it. When people misrepresent history and theory it is harmful to the cause.
Theory is open to critique, and history open to re-evaluation. No one is omnipotent, so we all see the world from different perspectives. People make mistakes too, that is how we learn. But when someone like Vaush claims to be a representative of the Left and repeatedly makes mistakes that could have been avoided by reading the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article, that's bad. That is not helping. There are better places where we can be directing people's attention. Places that actually help us understand the socioeconomic forces and class relations we need to navigate instead of obscuring them.
it’s like the opposite of liz & brace - they come off as a bit bumbling and simple, but under the surface they are incredibly ideologically consistent and filled to the brim with knowledge