Somebody give me some context for Josh Citronella. He seems like a fairly coherent leftist but he'll also talk to somebody like whatever her name is from Red Scare about wokeness going too far and I get a little bit of whiplash.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've watched a few of these Doom Scroll interviews when I've gotten recommendations and I still don't really get what the point is. They just seem like very jagoff interviews with little to no substance. It just seems like yet another attempt to take dull, nebulous 'discussions' about Twitter bullshit (mostly by the same 30 people who all know each other) into a sort of more respectably-skinned, corporate op-ed coded industry for millennial podcasters.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's interviews with a bunch of too-online people as if they don't already just type out every opinion they have right into the twitter app every day, I assume the citronella guy has no actual beliefs and is just trying to get some combination of clout and rich

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's worse than that. He has no actual beliefs and he's trying to be artsy about it.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Fuck, it's redscare but just the one guy and not the two cocaine ladies

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

57 minutes, 34 seconds

i ain't watching all that all that. im happy for you tho, or sorry that happened.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

In all seriousness, everyone should read Trashing, a 70s essay by Jo Freeman, it's about a half hour read, you can do it!

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And if Hexbear de-platforms you, there's plenty of deeper, darker leftist spaces like /leftypol/ /bunkerchan/getchan.

The American left, small as it is, has split enough times that often no matter how weird you can find a place.

[–] SnakeEyes@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Holy shit leftypol is just 4chan but edgier every theory discussion devolves into slurs

[–] CancelledKirk@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

They are right: This is a wilderness. It is nowhere.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: