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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

Contrapoints was my gateway to leftism over a decade ago so there's still a small part of me that wants to have a positive opinion about her.

Why can't she just be a lib and be done with it? Go hang out in the same corner as Bernie, John Oliver, Mark Ruffalo, AOC, play to that audience and be content over there? Dunk on the orange man, retweet Elizabeth Warren, go on the I've Had It podcast, all that liberal progressive stuff. Make one video every two years, keep raking in six figures through patreon and go to brunch with all your lib friends six days a week. Just accept that you're a lib! Being a lib seems fun! Look at the folks at Dropout, they're having a blast over there!

Why does she keep trying to explain herself to the online far-left on the fucking bird site? You sat down with Hillary Clinton, that means you're dead to everyone to the left of Zohran Mamdani. But guess what? That's probably less than 1% of the US population. You don't need to give a shit what we think. There's plenty of left-leaning people who will still have you around. Or at least there would be if you stopped throwing passive-aggressive tantrums.

Literally just go back to brunch. Enjoy your wealth. Go on lib-left podcasts. Go on Hasan's stream. Do campaign events with AOC. Stop trying to justify yourself to fringe online leftists. For your own sake, stop caring what the online tankies think about you.

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago

Why does she keep trying to explain herself to the online far-left on the fucking bird site?

This is a girl who habitually went on 4chan early in her transition to check what the most vicious transmeds had to say about her looks every time she dropped a new video. She coined the term digital self harm specifically to describe her own behavior, she will never touch grass.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

I think she's just addicted to drama tbh — I enjoyed her videos in the early days but she's always been a massive troll

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why can't she just be a lib and be done with it? Go hang out in the same corner as Bernie, John Oliver, Mark Ruffalo, AOC, play to that audience and be content over there?

Because she's not actually one of them. She has Destiny's liberalism but pretends to be on the edge of radical left because that's where her trans advocacy landed her brand initially. She is an ultra liberal. Barely distinguishable from Margaret Thatcher.

Joyce is probably her favourite character in Disco Elysium but for literally all the wrong reasons.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

It is because she knows that she has dodged the argument, but she has always lived to argue, and it is mentally devastating to her to be in the wrong, no matter how fringe the opinion is. I remember how she was pre-transition, back in the edgy atheist days, and she could argue circles around the theists, and had an unending appetite for debate with them and their cohort, no matter how obscure they were, particularly young earth creationists. And she got to be correct and rhetorically dominate them because, tbf they are literally the lowest rung on the totem pole in terms of American hegemony.

However, she cannot do the same to the far left, and it has been absolutely devastating to her mentally, as far as I can tell. We are a tiny minority with fringe beliefs, but we can argue absolute circles around her and she believes she is right, is convinced she is right, but cannot prove she is right. And that makes her the Young Earth Creationist. So she can only take refuge in satire, which is the loser's defense.

Edit: Also, it not less than 1%, it is closer to like 1.5% maybe 2%.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This feels deeply correct to me.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I will say it probably shouldn't, but I watched Contrapoints for an extremely long time, though she was never a favorite of mine. Extremely influential, sure, but I always thought she kinda reminincent of the BrowsHeldHigh guy or Hbomberguy, just with a more female affectation, but it was all very similar content at a similar time.

I was always more of a fan of the ThatGuyWithTheGlasses content growing up, which is kinda embarrassing to say now, but I still think they were doing the large amounts of theatre in your criticism thing at a way higher level early on in the online space. It was fun stuff, and it was cool to see Contra put on that level of performance, but that doesn't mean I found her actual insights on the nature of the political economy to be all that, well, insightful. Her trans stuff was extremely influential to introducing me to the trans space, and I cannot say she hasn't been extremely influenctial there. For better or for worse lol.

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[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

She can be financially successful without us but she can't be authentically "leftist" without us. Her identity as a real leftist, and therefore good person, who is doing enough to save the world, relies on acceptance into this club. She can't buy her way in with patreon dollars. All she can do is argue, plead, and cajole. She could, as you said, find acceptance in the libs but she doesn't value their acceptance the way she values ours.

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kill that last bit of hope you have for her, the lines have been drawn, she chooses to be a pariah, everyone wanted desperately for her to improve and change her ways but at every given turn she decided to lash out and walk all over people.

Liberals are just as harmful as conservatives, they are the same thing more or less.

Oh and also, she just wants attention, gotta keep the money rolling in.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If you like the left and yourself so much, go be a lib and then have the fat guy from cumtown host a leftist roast of Contrapoints. Everybody will eat it up like hot cakes. A win win win if I've ever seen it.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

She doesn't want fun, she wants to endlessly critique fun

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

nefarious warlord Killary "The Destroyer"

there are teenagers being sold in slave markets in Libya because of her and you're disgusting enough to make them the butt of your joke?

[–] jack@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

She's just grateful they were freed from Gaddafi

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I’ve decided to leave political commentary behind.

I give it a few weeks before she returns

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the return. Leaving political commentary behinds means creating anything instead of yet another attempt at a mic drop.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

Ah so it’s like one of those classic rock bands on year ten of their farewell tour

[–] axont@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I can't count the number of times she dramatically quit twitter

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

not political: America is good and cool

political: hmm, it might be possible that America has never been good or cool

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The reason I've decided to leave political commentary behind

Lmao ok sure. We'll be quoting that at you 3000 times in the future with near certainty.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn't this the 3rd or 4th time she's said that after Oct 7th? (or let's be real that terrible Hildog and daughter tv series?)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I think after being clocked as a zionist she's realised that her audience are further left than she is and any time she opens her mouth to talk about politics now she is just going to hurt her brand. If she stays off politics she can ride on the coattails of the brand she built, if she stays on politics she'll perpetually alienate people.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that terrible Hildog and daughter tv series

she was in that??

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Yep, apparently 2 episodes of it

contrapoints in 1st 2 episode credits of Gutsy

I honestly didn't know anymore than she was in part of 1 but damn it's the 1st 2 episodes

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Every time I check in with Contra it seems like her actual favorite topic to discuss is herself and how everyone is very mean to her and this is the worst offense on earth. She's completely full of herself to an egregious degree. I remember back when I used to kinda like her videos it was all about either internet bozos she would mock or very 101 level explanations of political concepts.

Except then as she got more popular her video essays got longer, more meandering, and more focused on specifically herself and her life. And like maybe some people would be into that but to me it's just some middle class white woman from Virginia who dropped out of academia. She's not the most interesting subject for multiple hour long video essays. And now she seems fully consumed by internet madness.

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

You don't seem to fully remember the contents of her videos, it was always about her, when she got a bit of money she started putting people down, she was always a 'fuck you, got mine' type, there are lots of disgusting things she has done if you look into it a little.

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"IsNotReal" the meme is Isntreal ugh she can't even get that right

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

fidel-wut Opioids and alcohol again, Nat? Or is that just pure liberalism

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

"up now on patreon"

Lmfao

Talk about burying the lede

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For somebody who fancies herself a big fancy philosopher/intellectual she sure is brainrot-laden incoherent on a level that borders with illiteracy most of the time.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, just like Hegel (joking).

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

its actual Killary 'The Slave-Market Maker'

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The eternal victim.

She claims to be an academic and yet I’m positive she hasn’t read Marx’s works or even liberal literature by Adam Smith and the like. Calling her a liberal is almost a compliment to this lazy piece of shit.

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

but fr why are you such a lib.

[–] puppygirlpets@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

because she is a hyper privileged white woman in the imperial core

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

What if it was Gonetrapoints and she left us all alone forever?

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My eyes cannot roll back far enough in my head

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Doing a full 360 degree eye roll, causing a whole host of medical issues with my optical nerves while also leaving me still looking at this same tweet. Awful.

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the moment Contra allowed Killary "the destroyer" into her private domicile

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[–] Fayne@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

Me when I have to make up stuff because I'm bored

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

If you had something different in mind to do, just do it. Don't make a political commentary about how you're not making political commentary.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Really needs to touch-grass

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