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I mean, by that logic, anyone who uses any website at all is financing Bezos, because half the internet runs on Amazon Web Services servers. It's kind of like making fun of someone for encouraging people to buy vegan food at the supermarket. You'll always have to buy food at the supermarket, because you have to eat, but you can at least buy vegan food to mitigate environmental impact. There are already hundreds of right-wing influencers. I don't think it's a bad thing to have left-wing influencers. Unless your ultimate goal is to have the communist movement be, like 7 people living off the grid.
I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though. But i long despair at encouraging people to dodge monopolists out of spite, yes, i can’t avoid gmail at work, but i can avoid youtube at home. Every time someone says “i searched netflix or here is my spotify roundup or here is a link to instagram” i get slightly mad.
p2p streaming in baby form exists, and people with financial opportunity can force it into reality, you know
If you haven’t noticed, we are entering in american imperial order any dollar that can be rescued from usa clutches is valuable (and political streamers are roughly useless)
Tech as in software layer is the most superficial shit there is, once you get the code built, it exists, and for some indescribable reason popular leftists are all tech averse to the max and behave like normies and pay for shit costing cents
*if we are in the deepest pit of reaction and going down ever more rapidly, while our politics are unpopular or not popular enough for people to sacrifice even a modicum of comfort, the goal of a leftist is not to live alone in the woods (although viable), but to fuck profit rates everywhere we can, which, in current world, includes tech monopolies, where one person can plausibly fuck up the whole music, if they somehow get popular, but “our” popular or interesting persons are nowhere interesting enough to see that as a direction to pursue. I would gladly only link peertube video, and avoid nitter if couple more people were on mastodon, but alas
Right?
But I have no faith in Hasan. This is how engaged he is with BDS.
His "compromise" was to drink coke out of a glass or something. I don't watch Hasan but I bet he hasn't stuck to his word on this. The guy is so rich he wouldn't even need to switch to generic brand cola, he could import a pallet of Gaza Cola and drink that instead. He could literally get a personal assistant to handle all of the logistics of this and he wouldn't even notice an impact on his life in any way.
Yet even that is too much effort for him.
He ain't gonna save us. He can't even be bothered to look into what's on the BDS list and to simply avoid showing those brands on stream. But he will work for DHS though.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He simply has no choice :( no ethical consumption under capitalism