Imagine there’s a Western backed genocide happening, possible WW3 around the corner, and fascism is coming to power everywhere. And you made video after video about why MLs are bad.

I shouldn’t care, but I used to really like BadMouse.

Also imagine being English and making an hour long video attacking an Iraqi communist.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    22 days ago

    I have a feeling most YouTubers don’t believe in anything at all. They just make videos that will fill a niche, and if one of their videos gets ten times more views than the rest, that will become their entire shtick. This is how you get self-described “leftists” like Jimmy Dore cranking out anti-vax videos. You don’t need to have a dog in the race. All that matters is the videos are doing numbers, so they keep making them.

    Everybody except for the proud racists is looking for content which puts a radical patina on the idea that the Communists are taking things too far.

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      22 days ago

      The ideology you are describing is that of a literal reactionary, a person who has no goals or values but simply reacts to the world around them. Some people would call it nihilism.