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Yes, it's a Vaush post. Yeah, go post the funny copypasta.

I still think it's incredibly worrying that there's a voice on the "left" that's growing ever popular that seems to find Western Imperialism funny.

  • Contrarian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    If you got them all in a room it would be a good size crowd, obviously, but the stream only 15k views? Yeah in the world of the online "left" he gets decent numbers but no one knows who he is, his ideas don't shape anyone in a meaningful way or like, affect policy or possible revolution.

    I still think it’s incredibly worrying that there’s a voice on the “left” that’s growing ever popular that seems to find Western Imperialism funny

    Why. Honestly why? 5 minutes of CNN pretending to be the voice of the "progressive left" does more damage than this guy can ever do in his lifetime. Laugh at him if you're going to watch him, he's a horsefly hanging out in the company of lions

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The video got 150k views on YouTube.

      And CNN doesn't pretend to be left-wing. They don't quote Marx when justifying voting for Biden. They bring up his "smart policies" and ability to "bring people together". It's the co-opting of language that disturbs me.

      I'm not saying he's the worst thing ever but using actual left-wing terminology while justifying imperialism, and calling LGBT people who disagree with you "subhuman" and "mentally ill" is going to play out badly in the long run.

      • Contrarian [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm just gonna have to hit you with hammer, sorry

        :funny-clown-hammer::funny-clown-hammer::funny-clown-hammer:

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        And CNN doesn’t pretend to be left-wing.

        They do though. They just don't talk about Marx. They're still doing the "liberals are leftists" thing.

      • RowPin [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        The video got 150k views on YouTube.

        I'm not saying this is directly comparable, but for a sense of scale (for all internet things): I write an incredibly obscure LGBT+ webnovel and it has 500k views.

        Now, granted, Vaush got those views faster (but looking at his older videos, none really go above 100k), but mobile Youtube autoplays recommended videos, many of those views are just the same people beteeen videos, how many of those people even know what he said about LGBT people (which even I can't recall), etc... The internet is really, really decentralized in terms of interests.