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He's left adjacent entertainment and gives all of the vooooters hope that electoral solutions are still possible

His stream allows the politically impotent to feel like they're making contributions to positive change

I understand why so many here and in general hold on to him as he's the best we've got in the entertainment world, but the medium is the message, and his message is just another facet of the attention economy

Yes.

I need my Tankie siblings to look at these comments and tell me it's worth conversing with any of these people lmao, let them play in their own shit. If they'll ever be convinced, the material failures of their worldview will do it for us, if not- the future's ash and fertilizer welcome them.

look at my revolutionaries dawg... we're so fucked

Someone give the voooters another fell for it again award

I align with your pessimism.

The fact is, in the U.S especially- you are either a reactionary or you're left adjacent and too comfortable with your imperialism dividends to make the required sacrifices needed for a mass movement.

I think this is why even some self described MLs advocate for electoral solutions, it's the easy way out.

Fascism must be allowed to rise and fall in the, U.S americans must go through a revolutionary crisis- it's the only needle that can penetrate the balloon of american hubris. The last century has proven this, yet we're told to prolong the inevitable and necessary with soc dem elections / dead-end - non-militant organizing.

Trump, his cronies, and the tech twats have done more to put the U.S and much of the left into a positive position than many of the civil-centric organizing left adjacent people have ever done. People want to talk about material interests driving class consciousness and political fervor- well those are the people driving the needed material conditions.

Yes, funny that you mentioned the American perception of danger.

Any time I mention visiting a country outside of western europe / the caribbean tourist hell- I literally get told I'm going to be chopped up or murdered.

I think any american willing to travel outside of the aforementioned places is someone with a mind already changed. For me it only confirmed what I already knew about the rest of the world.

And some of your replies are very correct, and a surface level conversation with most american hogs will prove it: the majority have not traveled abroad and many aren't even well versed in the states / workings of their own country.

I think the death penalty is silly even from an evil standpoint, death is a kind release compared to life in an American prison.

He can pull from his G.I bill, bye bye

This is a difficult topic because on the one hand I don't believe banning weapons addresses the root problems of violence in the first place (access to automatic weapons in the USA has decreased yet mass shooting are way up), but at the same time recent events have shown that despite being the most armed populace in the world, U.S americans refuse to even lift a finger while people are being ripped off the streets and shoved through concentration camps.

An armed people can still be a docile people.

I will mention though, even with bans- it is extremely easy to produce automatic firearms both conventional and 3-printed. I'm not convinced that a ban would be effective at hindering mass shooters in the U.S. We can bring up the statistics of other countries that lack the same firearm access of the US but I'm not sure those are apples to apples comparisons given the differences in material conditions.

There will not be relative calm but it will stamp out much of the fervor the masses have right now, brunch will be back

Even if Zohran the Zionist were the pale of water many hope him to be, he would just be buying american capitalism more time- much like FDR. It has to burn

Americans are lazy, entitled, and careless- that much is indisputable fact. But it is also true that these characteristics are acculturated and not individual moral failings.

We are long away from a general strike in the US given the attitude of the average american and the complete lack of class consciousness / solidarity. What's likely is that the Dems will seize some electoral power back, and much of the current political fervor will die- as it usually does. And then the republican party, emboldened by Trump proving that they can just do whatever they want, will come back with a competent figurehead.

The idea of an impending civil war is very optimistic given the fact that there's been 0 opposition to right wing policy or even the recent city wide military occupations. We have a militarized fascist force quite literally kidnapping people from their jobs and homes while the most heavily armed populace in the world stands back and watches, slacked jawed- and I'm supposed to believe there will be a domestic war? This is a bridge I will not buy.

Conditions will have to get much worse in the united states before people finally take meaningful action (non electoral, potentially violent), the good news is that we have 3 more years for that reality to come to pass and Trumps bad optics (the only thing that actually bothers americans) are bringing the future's inevitability to today's doorstep.