Mostly talking about stuff like breadtubers, chapo, and media personalities like that, I can kind of tell why people like Bernie and Jezza where they're at. Is it the added wealth being a popular media personality gives you, the need to give a consistent product, the need to appeal to a wide breadth of people, and so on?

edit: also props to Brett at RevLeft for continuing to radicalise himself as the show has gone on

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    I haven't really outgrown Matt's acid Marxism stuff, Felix's takes on dumb culture, Will's takes on general culture, Amber's penchant for activism, or Virgil's leftist wonkery. I think more than anything I've come to realize that those are the things that drew me to them in the first place but I've noticed things about each of them that bug me. I also think they play it safe because they're successful and don't want to fuck it up, which is easy to rationalize since they're a legitimate part of the leftist pipeline.