There is more to black and white. Jimmy is an idiot with hard on for Tulsi, but more than half of the time he was right. His critics on the DNC being party of professional elites, russiagate, the bullshit two party electoralism are spot on
Sure, I like to adopt the framework of useful-or-not instead of good-or-bad. And the truth is that I think Jimmy Dore's content is so incoherent that instead of being a useful pipeline to further leftist radicalization, he leaves would-be leftists to wander in a desert of hating the DNC and propaganda, but having no framework or larger understanding to tie it to. It's pretty telling that Sam Seder can sniff out Jimmy Dore fans just by how incoherent their babbling is when they're on the phone with him. If he makes you laugh that's fine, but I dont think his project is politically useful. Being right "more than half of the time" is a pretty lowwwwwwwww bar
Even from perspective of maximizing praxis Jimmy is more useful than not for mostly calling out the mainstream media hypocrisy. He kept meatheads like Joe Rogan - 'Oprah for guys' who had massive blue collar trucker audience from drifting into full right wing territory. He give platform for people like Aaron Mate to debunk Russiagate and people like Abby Martin and Norman Finkelstein to voice their support for Palestine. He also rips into Neera Tanden and other neolibs. He's the only person with no self respect from media careerism perspective who call out Syria gas attack as fraudulent conspiracy as it happens, even when regular anti war journalist like Glenn Greenwald being (rightfully) cautious and sit on the fence for a while. Anyone who help out people take a first step towards radicalization is doing praxis and doing good.
There is more to black and white. Jimmy is an idiot with hard on for Tulsi, but more than half of the time he was right. His critics on the DNC being party of professional elites, russiagate, the bullshit two party electoralism are spot on
Sure, I like to adopt the framework of useful-or-not instead of good-or-bad. And the truth is that I think Jimmy Dore's content is so incoherent that instead of being a useful pipeline to further leftist radicalization, he leaves would-be leftists to wander in a desert of hating the DNC and propaganda, but having no framework or larger understanding to tie it to. It's pretty telling that Sam Seder can sniff out Jimmy Dore fans just by how incoherent their babbling is when they're on the phone with him. If he makes you laugh that's fine, but I dont think his project is politically useful. Being right "more than half of the time" is a pretty lowwwwwwwww bar
Even from perspective of maximizing praxis Jimmy is more useful than not for mostly calling out the mainstream media hypocrisy. He kept meatheads like Joe Rogan - 'Oprah for guys' who had massive blue collar trucker audience from drifting into full right wing territory. He give platform for people like Aaron Mate to debunk Russiagate and people like Abby Martin and Norman Finkelstein to voice their support for Palestine. He also rips into Neera Tanden and other neolibs. He's the only person with no self respect from media careerism perspective who call out Syria gas attack as fraudulent conspiracy as it happens, even when regular anti war journalist like Glenn Greenwald being (rightfully) cautious and sit on the fence for a while. Anyone who help out people take a first step towards radicalization is doing praxis and doing good.