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Trans athletes never took over women’s sports. So why is the WNBA in an uproar?
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If that were the extent of it it would be fine; I even agree with a lot of his criticisms, but it's become nearly his entire output. When F.D. Signifier took issue with Badempanada's use of Nazi dog-whistles he accused him of being a Zionist. He also accused F.D. Signifier of supporting Graham Platner despite F.D. being one of the first to express concern about him. By jumping on single statements that are often ambiguous, assuming the worst, and ignoring any context that contradicts his accusations he is just creating unnecessary conflict with his close ideological allies. Rather than trying to have a normal conversation about things with other leftists he creates a series of videos scrutinizing everything they say and blowing things out of proportion. If you haven't watched his "debate" with F.D. Signifier where he takes advantage of Overzealot's friendship to hijack a stream he was doing with F.D. and make it about him, you should check it out. It makes the toxic way that Badempanada operates very transparent.
It hasn't become his entire output at all. The Live channel just puts out his livestream clips, and most are against Reich-wingers.
F.D. also DID support Graham Platner:
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He only made one other video where he was against him ONE month ago, after his discussion with BE and probably after watching his videos, where he denounced Platner for being... white. He also called out Fight Agency for the first time in his life on that video, and couldn't muster up literally anything that he disagreed with in their platform, instead just saying that they weren't platforming black politicians. I don't know if you've watched his videos or if you're just an outsider commenting on this, but if you haven't please do, because I'm not going on an anti-woke tirade here this is quite literally what he did.
BE also never used Nazi dog whistles. Signifier just said he did because he probably read on Wikipedia or something that ZOG was used by Nazis decades ago. Or maybe he is talking about the word Zionist, which he also seems to consider a dog whistle.
And I've watched the complete "debate" as well. F.D. had literally no point, didn't engage with what BE was saying, and just insulted his looks and yelled at BE to call him the hard-r because he was offended by getting called a "ZOG slave", thinking that because it has the word 'slave' in it it has to be racist.
He very obviously doesn't care about the Palestinian cause, instead making pop culture videos defending an extremely privileged group of people against Disney's "AnTiSeMiTiC tRoPeS oF a BiG nOsE aNd StEaLiNg". He's an actual IDPOL slave, and is merely getting backlash for trying to tone-police the people who DO care about this stuff.