The cool thing is that these kinds of well-meaning, radicalized liberals are the easiest to take to theory and become great comrades.
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For someone is as strong in the reddit brainworms as him this is a surprisingly good stance.
He's genuinely a good lib. You can see he cares and that he has good principles in there, he just lacks basically any history or political development.
You'd be able to talk him around over the course of maybe one or two dinners and drinks if you were a friend of his.
Yeah, like he is a stemlord, he had to be deeply submerged in hitlerite particles. To come out as clean as he did is quite the anomaly
He's friends with Hank Green and his cohort of smug condescending libs. Maybe if he spent more time with Brennan Lee mulligan he'd be less of one.
Oh god, Hank Green is insufferable and his politics even more so.
Fuck him for his knitting video especially though. Sciencebros just love to shit on "women's" work, ignorant to the marvel of technological development that requires all sorts of innovation and scientific progress (not least of all maths) to do some silly little lady's crafting - just like scrapbooking! Certainly nothing that has to do with big, important, science-y man's work (/s obviously)
Guess which type of work has not only been central to all of human existence, even prior to the advent of civilization, but also was absolutely fundamental to the early age of computers and space exploration? Textile work.
Nobody ever breathe a word denigrating textile work around me, least of all a sciencebro "public educator", because the first goddamned computer was a loom, the US used bra manufacturers to hand make space suits, and those magnetic core memory modules had to be hand woven by skilled women labourers. If you think that textile work is just some cute little hobby for ladies then go home and throw out every last thing that required fabric or computers at any point in its production, not to mention all your clothes and bedding and anything computerized.
Yeeeesss, Hank Green is an insidious liberal. I have no hope for him. You have a link to his knitting video?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
didn't even mention venezuela when it could've easily fit with all the oil talk. i love him but the crowd has spoken 
also forgot to mention he's a bluesky lib you can check his account.
cw: Thomas Jefferson, SA
Reminder that the Declaration of Independence was written by a guy who not only was a slave owner, but was confirmed to have regularly SA’d his child slave. Make sure you remind libs about this whenever they start drifting towards “This isn’t America!” nonsense.
I just can’t get mad at our soft spoken boy.
I thought it was a great video, very well researched and presented. I appreciate his anger towards the end, good on him for showing it, but I just had to laugh when he was advocating for people to vote for Dems, immediately after laying out all the ways they've betrayed and disappointed you. like, come on man, you're a very intelligent guy. you've gotta put the pieces together at some point 
Yeah I think he will figure it out at some point. We've all been there.
Gonna copy paste from what i said in slop chat
Its nice he is calling out to abolish ICE and tell people to organize
But he still cant picture a USA under anyone other than democrats
Like he correctly points out how dems do nothing to fix the issues republicans did
But still think voting in the dems will some how be able to reverse all the things republicans have done
He said all that stuff about caring about the labor that people have put into things, and I was so ready for Technology Connections Guy to suddenly reveal himself to actually be cool, and then BAM, we all just need to Vote Harder, baby!
I hope you make it over the hump, Tech Connections Guy, you'd make a cool communist.
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.
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.
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 
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.
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.
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.
I think he just is a person with basically no political education.
max lib political "education" with a dash of that breaking a bit. the 
was noticeably dissonant with the tenor of the rest of his crash out.
Haha. I couldn't get through the crashout section, it sounded like he was getting it and then he started in on how great America is and I just...
I remember being in that place, the "let's try taking The New Colossus seriously" phase.
You have to power through, it's very good.
Nah, I get enough lib perversion elsewhere.
Honestly that's better than I expected from a middle class burgerreich suburbanite.
love his vids but yeah always got turbolib vibes
turbo? idk about that, he says some cool and good things about labor just before this part of the video. I think he's in that phase of political awakening where it feels like you're the only sane person in the room, and the people you supported suddenly look and sound like transparent criminals. He says at one point, "Apparently, NO ONE is going to hold ANYONE accountable anymore!". I think he's simply a well-meaning progressive liberal who has hit the wall on trying to understand why things are happening. He probably doesn't have any other frame of reference, any other liberatory or revolutionary language to draw on than those of the founding fathers. Which, is simply how liberal society functions. At some point, though, he will realize that even that liberatory and revolutionary language fails to meet the moment.
I think Marx says it best:
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. [...] The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped off all superstition in regard to the past. Earlier revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to drug themselves concerning their own content. In order to arrive at its own content, the revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead."
This is why I've worked really hard to pull back from calling out blue MAGA when they treat any of the most minor criticisms of a democrat politician like you just insulted 7 generations of their ancestors.
I mean this with sincerity - I think that the people who react like that are one of the most powerful forces for radicalizing progressives over the hump into the radical left. It's only when you consider yourself a democratic voter through and through but you have a genuine criticism, like why Biden increased funding to ICE and outdid Trump 1.0 in deportations and incarcerations in the border prison camps and continued building the wall, only to get treated as if you're Trump's biggest fan, public enemy number 1, and that you're personally to blame for Kamala losing etc. Just one of these moments is all it takes.
Then someone who is self-aware enough like TC is gonna look around the metaphorical room and see all these people who are snarling at him, who don't give a damn about principles or ethics or that fucking awful constitution or human rights, and they are gonna realize that they no longer recognize the community they exist within, that these people they thought were allies and who shared the same values are just as bad, just as willing to comprise on any values in order to win. And that's when a person like this has a permanent and irreparable break from liberalism. Just one or two of them telling him "I hope ICE comes knocking at your door and drags you and your loved ones off to CECOT. How dare you make a valid criticism of a democratic candidate like that!? You are dead to me." and he's gonna have his road to Damascus moment.
This is why in the lead up to the most recent US presidential election I was riling up blue MAGA on social media in the comments. I legitimately wanted to put them through their own little strategy of (ideological) tension. I wanted them to be in such a siege mentality, in such a terrified political tailspin that they were lashing out at anyone and everyone. I wanted them barking at shadows and treating everyone like an opponent or a clandestine enemy. Because I know that they were turning on their own with that energy too; I can't agitate within their circles very much but I can foster a mentality in them where they do that work for me and they will be far more effective at it than I could hope to be.
This is why I personally try to cultivate a comradely approach as best I can and why I opt for call-in culture over call out culture. One is corrosive and it harms any sort of movement or efforts to organize. The other builds. If we allow ourselves to be at one another's throats then we are doing COINTELPRO's work for it. Some things need to be called out and some things absolutely should not be permitted, of course, but if everyone is constantly on edge, if we extend no grace towards our comrades, then we will bring a sort of belligerence to our work and we will never make progress.
In saying all this, there's a particular radical comm that exists in the lemmyverse that this brings to mind. You know the one. The head admin of it constantly lashes out and goes on witch hunts. The culture they set is incredibly toxic and corrosive to their politics. If propaganda of the deed is a thing then anti-propaganda of the deed is too. If it's not clear enough yet, you can find a comment of mine where I mention the phrase petty tyrant for more info. (I don't actually intend to rile up that particular character btw, although they are on a hair trigger so it just happens. I know very well how I could stoke an ideological strategy of tension with them if I wanted to - I know them better than they think. But that's not my intention and I have far better things to do. And one of those things is picking quarrels and provoking trouble with progressive libs because I'm getting the backwards to self-isolate while bringing up the intermediate and bringing over the advanced.)
Idk where I'm going with this.
Fair
I like some of his videos but I knew to stay away from this one as soon as I saw the title on YouTube. I just know it's full of liberal climate denialism. (Well, beyond the fact that centering on personal EVs is in itself climate denialism)
Huh? Its like, super pro-renewable and completely anti-fossil fuel. It comes at it from a "hey making shit that produces energy for years just makes so much more sense than spending all this effort for something we're gonna burn" angle though.
It's a bit carbrained I'll give you that.
You should explain what liberal climate denialism is compared to right wing climate denialism.
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I could tell he is a lib because he acts salty whenever he uses metric.
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