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He actually used to do non-political videos that were pretty similar to a bunch of 'edutainment' youtubers. Really cool to see him switching over to some pretty radically far-left political content.

Here's the first political video he made, it's fucking awesome. It basically presents all of the core tenents of Marxism in a way that's very palatable to libs and normies.

Haven't even looked yet but I'm guessing the views are waaay lower.

Youtube can mark videos as 'controversial' or something and they basically don't show up unless you go looking for them. They don't show up in recommended videos or anything like that.

There's a video by the channel Empire Files, called "Trump is expanding the empire", it doesn't show up even if you search the title word for word. You find mirrors of the video on other channels before you find the actual video.

Here it is btw, it's a fantastic video that's definitely worth watching, it's almost certainly the best criticism of Trump that I've seen. And here's the sequel which might be even better.

But yeah, try searching "Empire Files Trump is Expanding the US Empire" and see what happens.

That was just an example, the point is that if you want to 'err on the side of caution' then you can always find a few people who are offended by something. If 99% of people (within a certain minority group) say "yeah this is fine it's really not a big deal" and less than 1% are offended, it's not necessarily a good idea to act like it's offensive just because some people say it is.

And what if by acting like it's a big deal you're actually weirding out the 99% of people who don't think it's offensive?

It's not like it's always better to view every controversial thing as offensive.

Is it though?

There will almost always be at least a small group that finds something offensive, should we really be listening to them 100% of the time? I'm sure there are at least a couple people out there who think that white people shouldn't listen to hip-hop, should we 'err on the side of caution' in that case too?

Just because a very small amount of people find something offensive, that doesn't necessarily mean that there's anything wrong with the thing, it just means that a few people are offended by it.

Sorry for the super late response but I just wanted to say this was a really good counterpoint to my original comment, and I appreciate you writing it ❤️

22 times??? wtf, he better be a gamer because otherwise that shit ain't cool

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Michael Parenti is awesome, I love his stuff. Also, he stayed at my family's home once! My mom organized a local anti-war group during the gulf war, and she set up a few lectures with various speakers. Well, one of those speakers was Michael Parenti. He took the bus up to our neck of the woods and spent the night at our house. It was a couple years before I was born, but I still think it's really cool. My mom says he was really cool, super humble and very sweet. My older brother was like 2 or 3 years old at the time and apparently Michael pushed him on the swing and played some games with him, having a wonderful time.

I actually only learned about this less than a year ago, I mentioned Parenti in passing and my mom said "oh did I ever tell you that he once spent the night at our house?"

Anyway, just thought I would share that story :)

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PS: if anyone's interested, you can find the entirety of Blackshirts And Reds on youtube.

Also, you can just read it on Parenti's website.

This one goes dummy hard

I think it's really interesting, basically metal vocals with a hip-hop flow

Hard to beat this classic

The left in America has already been co-opted by multiple groups.

Personally I think the obsession with wokeness, political correctness and idpol is largely manufactured, and it seems to be doing a pretty good job of hurting leftism. When normies think of leftism they think of SJWs before they think of "seizing the means" or anything like that. They think leftism is a joke, just a bunch of delusional ineffectual college kids who only care about cultural issues. And guess what? That turns most people off. People who support universal healthcare and taxing the rich, who would otherwise be fine with identifying as leftists, but they don't want to because of the perception that they have of leftists.

And I don't think that perception is entirely justified, but it's sad that leftists aren't doing anything to change the perception, because it seems like most leftists are actively resistant to good optics.

I'm pretty sure that Snowden was a limited hangout, think about it: if he was such a threat to the state, why did the mainstream media give him a massive platform? You could say that they were forced into it because it was such a big story, but A) there are plenty of big stories that they just don't cover, and B) they gave him way more coverage than they needed to, they could have just mentioned it once or twice, said that "we don't have all the facts yet and the information hasn't been verified". They didn't have to interview him, but they did, many times, even after the hype around him had died down. They're obviously very comfortable having him on mainstream news. And it seems like they're never hostile to him, they always treat him as a well-respected expert. Maybe this has changed in the last few years, but that's how I remember it. The MSM was instantly on board with the story, they immediately treated it as true, the only real controversy was whether he should have revealed it or not.

If there are problems that affect every group, and other problems that only affect specific groups, shouldn't we prioritize solving the problems that affect everyone?

And I think that's especially true if solving the problems that affect minority groups are (whether it's fair or not) seen as divisive issues that result in pushback and potentially alienating normies?

What if trying to solve all the problems at once prevents you from solving any of the problems? Seems to me like that's harmful to everyone, including the minority groups you're trying to help.

By the way, I've exposed hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of people to powerful leftist agit-prop that I made myself. Not memes btw, but facts and figures about how bad capitalism is, with sources. And most of the people I've reached are normies, so I've probably played a significant role in radicalizing a massive amount of people towards leftism. I can pretty much guarantee I've done more to help leftism than 99.9% of BLM protesters have. I can pretty much guarantee I've done more to help leftism than you have.

This is why idpol sucks so bad, and one of the reasons that I'm against woke shit. In case anyone hasn't realized it yet: democrats are using idpol wokeness as a replacement for leftist policies. The democrats want to look like they're fresh and new and progressive, without actually making any systemic changes.

Most normies primarily associate leftism with woke SJW idpol, they don't even know about "seizing the means" or anything like that. So when democrats say "look we have a WoC vice president and she's talking about 'lived experiences', that's what leftism is"

And you know what? Most normies don't even like the woke shit. When they hear about "demigender greysexuals" they're like "okay that's weird, I guess I don't want to be a leftist". Wokeness is actually turning people away from leftism.

I think that as leftists we should make it very clear (even clearer than we already do) that identity politics is not a replacement for actual systemic change. And personally, I think we should de-emphasize the wokeness and political correctness. We have a lot of winning 'leftist' policies like universal healthcare and taxing the rich, those have massive popular support so I think we should make sure those are always front and center. If we can help normies associate leftism primarily with economics instead of wokeness, I think we will be much more successful at building a mass movement and getting the numbers we need to actually make the changes that we want.

So surreal to see someone in a fancy news studio asking Big Dawg Brace some serious questions in a 'reporter voice'

Although I consider Brace to be an expert on this subject, it's weird seeing him treated as such by a mainstream news outlet. Never thought I would see him in that role.

Very cool, very good 👍

Tim obviously should have simply responded "Virgil Texass"

Yeah but Bush was like "if you let me win then I'll do 9/11 and we can go to war"

Biden 2020: let the libs go back to sleep again

It's funny that with all the non-stop crazy shit happening in the news cycle, you consider it to be "too quiet"

But still, I kinda know what you mean, probably something big in the works