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[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As a leftist, I can relate. Thought Slime annoys me sometimes.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Thought slime has some mixed-quality takes, but is, above all else a wokescold crybully, making them incredibly toxic and counter-productive.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

What the hell does "wokescold crybully" even mean?

[-] Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago

First results

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wokescold

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/crybully

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

It's how you call someone an "SJW" if you're self aware enough to know that the optics of calling people SJWs is bad.

[-] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 11 points 9 months ago

Thanks for this recommendation, will be checking out Thought slime

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Enjoy.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I never bothered with the collabs (because they are loooooong) snd not seen in a couple of years anyway, but their mainstay videos I thought really intelligently debunked/called out rightwing grift and the like

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

I only watch their youtube videos and don't really get that vibe from them. Am I missing some drama context or could you elaborate what makes them so bad?

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I haven't watched their content in a couple of years now, but there was a series of bad takes on Twitter, a hell of a lot of cringe, toxicity, self-centeredness, and performative self-victimisation, The main drama I saw was with Xanderhall and Vaush. On the other side of it, they've done a string of collaborations with varying levels of success.

Their videos were generally OK, if a little basic with some flawed analysis. They chose some interesting subjects, but their content took a meaningful dip not long after they came out as NB (I hope I don't have that wrong?). Hopefully the dip was just a short-term product of some of the stress and distraction, but their content wasn't strong enough to get me through it and I checked out.

If you like the content, you like it, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's not horrible, I just thought it stopped being worth watching (though hope that's changed).

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

I guess I'm a bit lenient on them (yes, they're NB) since I like their jokes and theirpop-culture content and I admit: Their videos got me to consciously discover anarchism, which has become a cornerstone of my ideology. So I guess their flawed analysis was a good starting point before I got into the more meaty stuff.

[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol 1 points 9 months ago

I mean, you have two flavors of leftist youtubers: ineffectual wokescolds and edgelord dudebros. Edgelords are one leaked DM from them to an underage fan away from pivoting into straight authoritarian nationalism, and wokescolds are basically trying to fill out a pokedex of other online leftists they made enemies with because they didn't pass a particular ideological purity test.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Imagine having a Youtube platform with over 10k+ subscribers and using it to manufacture micro-celebrity drama.

[+] MamboGator@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] DreamerofDays@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

That. That, the scorched earth policy toward anyone not on board, and the nazification of everyone in any degree of opposition.

The horseshoe feels like a circle sometimes.

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Did you just say you like chocolate ice cream??? Well that obviously means you hate strawberry ice cream by default you fascist pig!

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

“Yeah, that’s a good idea, but is it completely unassailable logic that is beyond all criticism? Because that’s definitely the best standard to use against the rough draft of an idea.”

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Less infighting among the green left would be very helpful.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

The decades long fight against nuclear that just made sure coal is used for longer... Pain...

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 9 months ago

The perfect is the enemy of the good

I can't speak for everywhere, but this line is frequently levied at the Greens party here in Australia, but it just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

In all of the noteworthy cases where they've voted against the "good", they have negotiated and later ended up voting in favour of the "better". In no case did they hold up hoping for "perfect".

But they're still blamed for voting down climate policy way back in 2009, despite the fact that independent Treasury modelling said the 2009 bill's climate policy wouldn't have had any reduction in emissions until 2035. That wasn't even "good". So they voted it down and negotiated with the Prime Minister who replaced the megalomaniac that refused to negotiate the first time, and passed world-leading policy in 2010, seeing immediate reduction in emissions.

[+] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

I agree with the principles of what you're saying, groupthink is certainly bad, but usually people align with other people with underlying foundational values and beliefs. Ie, people tend to support gay rights if they also support trans rights, because they stem from similar areas of prejudice. Intersectionality and all that.

Usually, the truly unique perspectives are for often contradictory views, like being an Anarchist Capitalist, though even then there are still groups of people who think similarly.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I agree with the principles of what you're saying, groupthink is certainly bad, but usually people align with other people with underlying foundational values and beliefs. Ie, people tend to support gay rights if they also support trans rights, because they stem from similar areas of prejudice.

But the foundational values vary from culture to culture. My country has a lot of people who are socially conservative, but not that many who support free-market economics. In your own example, we have a long tradition of transgender people, and they have laws protecting them from discrimination. On the other hand, homosexuality was a legal grey area until a few years ago, and their marriages are still not recognised by the law. Iran is an even more extreme example here, with gender reassignment surgery being state-subsidised, but homosexuality still illegal.

So I wonder to what extent political positions are universal, and to what extent they are an accident of history.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Culture plays a huge part in what is normative, yes, but actual positions tend to support other positions by proxy, like a web.

Essentially, it's understandable that a Socialist would also support FOSS development, as FOSS also rejects private ownership and the profit motive. However, it's less understandable that a huge supporter of the profit motive would love FOSS as much. They can reason that people should have the choice, but it breaks down just a bit.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

The current government in my country is definitely right of centre, and are pushing for Linux adoption, largely on a 'we should not be dependent on foreign companies for the software we use' plank. Although, to be fair, Linux was able to get a foothold in the first place because a communist state government tried using it in the 2000s. They succeeded, leading other states and the union government to follow suit.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Yep, you can advocate for leftist principles or leftist originated things as a right-winger, it just takes a large amount of justification in order to do so.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Centrism is just political talk for "i dont interact enough with society to see anything wrong with it".

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

Don't believe that. It's just an excuse to avoid saying the real reasons, the ones they know are not cool.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 points 9 months ago

Crabs in a bucket, the tweet

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

ThoughtSlime would know, they're annoying as fuck ♥

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't like them and they creep me out but Thought Slime was right about this one

Hell, Thought Slime is a perfect example of this! They annoy the SHIT out of me and I still refuse to join the right wing.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Who/what the fuck is "slime"?

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

"Thought slime" is the handle of the OP in the screenshot

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Fuck the right wing fuckers, and fuck you!

💕

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Yes! SEPARATELY.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Liberalism is a spectrum, conservativism is a monolith.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Liberalism isn't leftism, though. This is more poking at MLs fighting with DemSocs fighting with Anarchists fighting with Syndicalists fighting with Market Socialists, etc.

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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

https://youtu.be/bsFzc0wAtFs?t=211

Completely accurate representation of Progressive politics.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Damn leftists, they ruined the left.

[-] WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dunno, the only other leftists that annoy me are browbeat merchants like Thought Slime.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

It's the comma splices that get me.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

The fact that's on twitter is the cherry on the top.

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