I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You should explain what liberal climate denialism is compared to right wing climate denialism.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Should? There's not really any reason for me to. Are you personally asking me to? If so, you could just actually ask. Or are you doubting that exists? What is "should" about it?

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It was an honest request for an explanation. "should" was the wrong word, I see that now. I meant it more as a "not just for my sake", I assume others might not know the difference either. To be more blunt, I need it explained to me before I can tell you if that is what the first hour of the video was or not.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay, since you liked the video, I honestly just assumed you worded it like that defensively or in a doubting way. I get you.

You can easily compare it to liberal "anti-racism" or any other belief that liberals claim, but communists actually fight for. In this case, "communists" also includes people who just...read the science. Liberals will say the words "I don't like racism" and then vote into power the most racist person their party could scrounge up. Relevantly to your description of the video, championing a party that is massively contributing to climate change, while whining about it. The words are meaningless as soon as capitalism is challenged. Their commitment is ephemeral. It consists of nothing and it disappears at the slightest push.

Liberal climate change activism is saying with all their heart "climate change is real", and then with the same vigor, opposing any actual tangibly effective solution that would affect their way of life. Which includes any substantial restructuring of society that is absolutely necessary to fight climate change. So they will fight for things that don't meaningfully affect their way of life, like the type of propulsion their car uses.

Whenever I press people on this, it is always because they haven't actually read anything substantial about climate change. Where we are at with climate change, or how much any given "solution" would contribute, etc. Which leads them to only acknowledge solutions within the safe bounds of liberalism, despite what the science says.

Liberals do not deny that climate change exists like the right. They deny that the necessary solutions are necessary, deny that the conditions are actually as bad they are, or deny that capitalism is incompatible with avoiding climate catastrophe.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah that's interesting because I got the sense from the video is that he does support fundamentally restructuring society, but is also in this place where he has no other frame of reference as to what is to be done in order to actually do it. For example he basically advocated for turning 25% of Midwestern corn fields into solar farms. That's not his actual solution but one that "by the numbers" simply "makes sense" and by extension building a fully renewable grid makes sense too. As is often the case with these videos though you never get the "how" part. Except, in this video he crashes out after the credits and you kind of do get the "how", but its clearly muddy water for him at this point.

He seems to think the Democrats will get us there, that they were building this sustainable grid and that the Republicans were the road block. He also seems to think the Democrats are compromised by corporate interests. His support for them at the end of the video was not one of confidence but pure desperation. It was the plea of someone at the end of their political rope. It seems clear to me that the logic of liberalism isn't working out for this "logic" YouTuber anymore, they might not have fully realized it yet.

So in most ways I think your right, though there is a chance that he could be pushed into a more radical direction as well.