From what I saw he’s a “Orwell is a great socialist author” and “the USSR was fascist” kind of terminally white bourgeois British dude. Did he, like, watched a Hakim or JT video before accepting?? I hope it’s because he’s having a redemption arc or something
He has a big platform, collabing with him is great for the podcast exposure. Its just usual podcast behaviour, heck they have even collabed with ultras like BadEmpanada and the russian guy.
BadEmpanada has a more “ultra” philosophy but he does a lot of research so his facts are pretty straight. For example his video on the Great Ukrainian Famine under Stalin is a banger. The Russian guy is boring as f so I didn’t really listened, and at least I can relate to his more generic anti-war sentiment.
I think there’s a massive gap between a “the Soviets were fascists” and a “I don’t like war” / “I don’t trust neither US nor Chinese media”.
I think there’s a massive gap between a “the Soviets were fascists” and a “I don’t like war” / “I don’t trust neither US nor Chinese media”.
Reminder that neither Moscow nor Washington was a CIA position pushed by them and their compromised left. Neither Washington nor Beijing is the same weak, nihilistic, arm-chair, false-equivalence garbage designed to fragment the left, prevent a laser-focus of criticism on Washington and the NATO global capitalist hegemony they lead, and all in all be ineffectual. The bourgeoisie are not and never will be threatened by people who have objections to capitalism but also object to all existing socialism and successful methods of attaining it as those people are mere discontents who on some level have accepted the status quo.
they also invited Hasan Piker, a Biden voter 😐
Hasan is great tho, he is a fundamental part of the ML pipeline.
It’s a pipeline of consumerism and wealthy debatebros that is deeply intertwined with tech-media corps and relies on donations from impressionable people. It’s all branding and discourse at the marketplace of ideas.
He’s cringe for multiple reasons, but unlike the “debate bros” he never tries to avoid people moving left.
