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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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 34 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

He so close to being very cool it made me wonder if he was tempering his rhetoric to be accessible to people with basically no political education, but I'm just being wishful.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 38 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Nah, he apparently goes all in on the pro-democrat rhetoric which is totally incompatible with being politically cool. He simply doesn't have a good or consistent understanding of politics, which is a shame. He gets so close with the "everything is political" stuff but doesn't actually understand what that means or appreciate that politics can extend beyond Republicans versus democrats.

The YouTuber I have noticed having some cool political ideas is, of all people, miniminuteman, whose channel is mostly debunking pseudo archaeology and being the world's most obnoxious zoomer - a definite guilty pleasure of mine. I've noticed he'll occasionally let slip some cool stuff about class etc. I'm sure he's a baby radlib and not a full-blown socialist but he seems to at least be on the right track.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

MMM strikes me as a typical Western anarchist rn

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Ooooo okay I watch him and TC and was thinking similar things.

MMM imo has clearly been getting more constructively radicalized over the year I've watched him and has gone more from "trump bad" to "I am actually putting the entire system on trial" lately so that's cool.

TC knows some of the right terms and basically just opened the flood gates.

I feel like both of them are one Kyle Kulinski "never mind, I understand why they built gulags" moment away from accepting the spectre into their hearts specter

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

I think what MMM has going for him is that he's young, passionate, and angry, that he's a recent graduate, and that his degree was, if not in the humanities, at least humanities-adjacent (modern archaeology is far more about the everyday people of the past than it used to be). All those things I think make people more open to radicalization. I also think that as a student of history he is perhaps more aware that nothing lasts forever, he's aware of just how many seemingly invincible empires have risen and then fell.

TC is a little bit older and, despite his sympathies with workers and what seems to be a genuinely good nature (he strikes me as an honestly good and decent human being), also a bit of a STEMlord. He is, I think, very stuck on "end of history"-type thinking. I wish I had more hope for the guy, and if class consciousness really starts to spread it could well spread to him, but I can't imagine him ever being ahead of the curve on this.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

like i said, wishful. it would be nice if he could realize how weirdly contradicting the partisanship is with the rest of the rhetoric. a lot of forgiving democrats tepid climate policies. but then a lot of anger that is begging for real political education too. miniminuteman i also agree on, he's a deboonker that seems like he could really thrive in an org.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago

miniminuteman i also agree on, he's a deboonker that seems like he could really thrive in an org.

You're not wrong there, I feel like with a bit of political education he could be a real asset. Despite what I said he's quite charismatic and a great communicator, that episode he did recently where he did a little roleplay as a traveller inviting the viewer to share a meal with him was really, really well done.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think he just is a person with basically no political education.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 20 points 14 hours ago

max lib political "education" with a dash of that breaking a bit. the vote was noticeably dissonant with the tenor of the rest of his crash out.