God you people are predictable. The second people call you out you scream “lib”.

The funny thing is for all your spleen venting John Oliver has undoubtedly done more to advance the goals of the American left than you ever have. He has introduced basic left wing talking points about race, the economy, history, societal structures and the deep systemic flaws within and made them palatable and easy to understand for the average American citizen (amazingly the average American is not a Twitter Bolshevik).

I actually credit John Oliver with helping me become more left. Because of his videos on the subject I wanted to learn more left wing things and I discovered Lindsay Ellis, then Shaun, then from Shaun Contrapoints and from her Three Arrows and then philosophy tube and Some More News, renegade cut. All because a funny comedian met me where I was at and got me interested in politics.

(I can't wait for you to explain to me how all those people are actually sucky sellout libs).

If you actually want leftist goals to succeed you have to convince the average person to adopt leftist beliefs and that means conversing with them on their level.

I seriously don’t understand what wannabe revolutionaries like you sneering and sniping at people online and demeaning them and calling them shitty libs actually accomplishes.

Do you think they’ll stick around and listen to your brilliant theory analysis after you basically told them to go fuck themselves?

Is it praxis to be on par with a dead pigs rotten asshole in terms of charisma and charm?

Or are you actually seriously delusional enough to think that there are enough of you and you are well organised enough to bypass electoralism all together and have a revolutionary war?

(🎵DOOONT STOP BELIEEEEVIN’🎵)

But whatever you think, as you are now you are not the solution to the lefts problem, rather you are an annoying parasite that alienates fence sitters, causes infighting and validates right wing narratives.

And the only reason you do it is entirely for selfish reasons. So that you get to feel intellectually and ethically superior to others.

Grow up and leave the tankie larping to the playground!

  • Bedulge [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The real problem with John Oliver is that his show is unfunny.

    I don't even dislike most of the people mentioned in the text up there but like, this person is basically listing out YouTubers they like as if it is a collection of bona fides. I don't think it's at all elitist to just say like:

    read a fucking book occasionally.

    I'm not telling you to read all volumes of das Kapital but like, god, there are some good books out here by or about Marx that are not hard to read, and spending 20 mins with Marx will teach you more than 2 hours with Shaun (not a dig against Shaun).