So, I don't really know where to start here... I guess I'll just ramble on and hope I make sense. Episode 246 of The Deprogram was very controversial, if you go to the comments section of it and listen to the arguments made by JT, Yugo and Hakim it's, well... in my opinion pro-reformist. From what I can tell, an ACP channel (which if you don't know, the ACP is the American Communist Party, it can be described as Patriotic Socialist / NazBol / mixing right wing nationalism, bigotry, fascism with communism and also it actually tried to takeover the subreddit r/TankieTheDepogram, which was a whole thing not too long ago) has used this opportunity to propagndise for the ACP by making a video on this episode, a video which in my opinion was actually pretty good. It mostly just quoted Lenin so that's a big reason for the quality really lol.
At no point, apart from an American flag in the intro which I missed at first watch, does he argue for anything to do with the ACP or show any sign of being affiliated with them, unless maybe I have missed something I guess. Instead it seems he has taken this controversy as an opportunity, with this video, to promote himself as more communistic than the deprogram boys, get new subscribers and then he will I suspect down the line pull these new subs toward the NazBol nonsense.
I realised what was happening because at 12:35, in the video above, he mentions a channel which he claimed makes the type of content that Second Thought should, this channel is called REDGOD. So I start watching some of this REDGOD's videos and my ACP radar starts going off because of how much this guy is centering his content around America, I then notice something, his first upload is collabed with MidwesternMarx - a major promoter of the ACP. I'm thinking maybe this REDGOD guy doesn't know MidwesternMarx very well but I click on the video and the comments are well, let me just post a screenshot:
Yeah, so at this point I go back to the RTSG channel and see a video collabed with Jackson Hinkle, another major promoter for the ACP! Fuck me, these ACP bastards are sneaky, I feel like I just became friends with someone and then found out they beat their dog, you know, like I began to like this RTSG guy and REDGOD and now I am just disgusted that I was duped & invested in a person & didn't realise sooner (it took me like an hour before I clocked the ACP shit) what they are.
https://youtu.be/-XL6K1gbT-M - RTSG collab with Jackson Hinkle to help launch the channel
https://youtu.be/fPyf8MRT3-I - REDGOD collab with MidwesternMarx to help launch the channel
edit: https://youtu.be/GhHGffxUc3E - episode 246 of deprogram
Yes i know.
The reason I started using lemmygrad was because of the attempted acp takeover of thedeprogram sub. Infact I discovered who was individually responsible (username within ACP). They have terrible opsec lmao. (Not that they need it cuz theyre unserious larpers anyhow) It was very easy to find the identity of people who were in direct contact to the main person who did it. Name, age, university ect.
Anyhow during that endeavour for better or for worse i became familiar with what they are.