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Idk why I get bad vibes from him. Is it the theatre kid vibe? Improv guy vibe? Or that I’ve been burned by everyone in entertainment presenting themselves as left but not explicitly communist (and some of them, too)?
Know-it-all improv guy vibes I think. But out of all the comedy drop-out people, he's the one that never misses an opportunity to make a anti-cop, anti-capitalism or communist reference, whether in scene or out of it, or really whether anybody wants to hear it.
And that does strike me as a very communist thing to do.
No one on this website has ever seen a single westerner that they couldn't find some way to be dubious of the politics of, so it's not surprising you feel this way.
We've been burned a lot
I'd say that if you got Brennan in a room he would be some flavor of Anarcho-Communist. The issue is that he will never make that public because he is far too savvy an operator to do that. He has somehow (honestly through lots of luck, perseverance, and massive amounts of talent) gotten himself onto the gravy train, with a wife and kid, and he isn't going to knock himself off of it until he is good and ready to.
I think he's pretty open about being some kind of anarchist. He has characters he puts in to basically give his politics and he explicitly calls them anarchists (I believe that he's speaking in-character here as one of those)
I think he's fine. He's an anarchist but that's better than most of his fellows in popular-ish media, and his heart is surely in the right place.
He's giving regular run-of-the-mill vocal US leftist. He still hates on Stalin, the USSR, China and so on, but his politics are otherwise decent.
I don't have the clip on me, but he was doing that on some podcast about a year ago.
Unlike most of those types he doesn't spend a bunch of time whining about those projects though, so he's better than most, but he's still there
I get the vibe that most leftists are "theater kids" in some form, as in artsy types. They're sure as hell not jocks, and tho we like to flatter ourselves I doubt most would fit in at a punk show either.
i think most "leftists" are most likely just giga nerds. like the amount of people on this website seemingly into 40k is astounding
MLs are all some degree of nerd, we do homework for fun
I think that might be more of a this website thing than a leftist thing
Me, using deductive reasoning after a few years on hb dot net:
"Leftists love beans"
No lies detected
it's also my experience in organizing IRL, i once suggested we like, throw a frisbee around or kick a soccerball during a social meetup and i got looked at like i had grown a 3rd head (although tbf this was at college so...)
What? Punk and leftist politics are deeply intertwined. I don't really know how it is in the USA I guess. Maybe it's more divorced from politics there. I suppose most leftists aren't punks but wherever I've lived most punks are sure as fuck leftists.
A lot of punk is left or connected to leftism, but lots of leftists would struggle to be further from punk (I am one of the latter).
OG
Punk was reactionary, though not in the political sense. It was a retvrn to the simplistic structures and unpolished sound of the 50s and early 60s, launched in reaction to the overproduced rock of the late 60s and early 70s. However, they mostly steered clear of any sort of politics. Much of the discourse from those early days was about whether or not Punk should even have a political stance. It eventually coalesced around vague anti-war and anti-corporate ideas. Sometimes with a bit of feminism and pro-lgbt+ when a scene supported women and queer folx, but not every scene did. Punk didn't really get political until it crossed The Pond, and that's because it caught on with art school students in 
You probably want the word "reactant"
I'm not sure that's a very useful application for the word reactionary because it would apply to basically all art movements ever. But I appreciate the context on the American history of punk, thanks!
Is it, though? Punk in the US was a rejection of modern and progressive rock and a return to the older sounds. That's also a big part of why it caught on with white supremacist skinheads in the UK.
I played hockey
When you're playing with the puck, you're playing with
C O M M U N I S M
Some of us are just dorks.
You'd be shocked at how many punks are just former theater kids
erm, I played varsity for years and years back in the day. I am not artsy. get wreked
Last pig destroyer show i was at had a lot of acab type patches around. Not punk but i think some of us are still cool
Actually, I'm more of a rivethead
https://brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-gueesed/
Wow this is long but the title intrigues me. Is it a short story, or an autobiographical piece of writing from him?
It's worth a read
Autobiographical short story
He's my problematic fav