• ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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      They’re socdems at worst, don’t think anyone who gets labeled breadtube is a lib. And some are actually socialists and marxists.

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        I think Abigail*/Philosophy Tube is probably an actual Marxist of some form

        * edited post :hexbear-trans:

          • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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            No joke his video on Antifa was probably what opened the door to leftism in a robust sense for me. I was a succdem before then, but over the last few years (since the video came out essentially) I've been becoming politically educated, organized, and much further left. It all started by realizing politics is so much more than electoralist reformism.

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        There's breadtube and then there's a bunch of other people who get lumped in with breadtube because they make videos and aren't reactionaries. Like, Lindsay Ellis is a liberal but she's not breadtube, she makes videos about media and stuff.

        • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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          I think she also got lumped in because she’s friends with Natalie and a few of the others. She’s also criticises capitalism a bunch, but never goes into solutions or alternatives, and she’s also done a video on Marxist media criticism.

          • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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            Oh, I haven't really watched a lot of her stuff, pretend I was talking about Jenny Nicholson then. She associates with leftist youtubers but doesn't really make many political statements beyond saying it's good to be nice and not a reactionary.

            An anti-capitalist who doesn't talk about solutions or alternatives doesn't really sound like a liberal to me tbh. Voting for Biden doesn't make you a liberal.

          • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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            Breadtube is leftism on youtube, there are no breadtube membership cards and there is no CEO of breadtube intent on using Noam Chomsky to propagandize against a state that doesn't exist.

                  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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                    I've slept on it and realized we've probably just seen people use the word differently, I'm gonna go make fun of rightists instead of talking semantics with someone I probably agree with 90%

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    Which *misinform people and take them down a false path of left anti-communism which makes porky the bourgeois pig squeal with delight because he doesn't care if you're anti-capitalist so long as you're ineffectual and fighting those people who actually are. Now beardtube... that's the stuff.

    Citations: /r/breadtube reddit sub, infested with liberalism, idealism, and anti-communism

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    Or a bunch of libs pretending to be radlibs pretending to be leftist. A lot of them exposed themselves over the last couple of months.

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    Skullboi is good and the Prolekult guy someone linked on here but he isn't breadtube. Also Three Arrows. Is he a socdem? The rest of them can piss off. Also Skullboi releases a video twice a year.

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      I like Jack saint actually his cars 2 movie review was quite good

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        My first jacksaint video was the "sky high is fascism" he has only gotten better since then

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows

      • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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        Yeah I know it's a socdem symbol but that was my question. Is he a social democrat? I've never heard him give a definitive answer in the videos I've watched. Yeah the first reply I got was just like "cause it's cool looking."

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          I vaguely recall hearing he put out an anti-communist video saying people blaming the socdems for the fascists were actually wrong, so he's probably a dedicated socdem. It's generally easier to find answers like that in longform streamed or q&a videos probably.

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    In Africa they call him 'Brother Vaush'

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      Ho Chi Minh translated PhilosophyTube and Destiny to Vietnamese, and was able to teach high level Breadtube theory to illiterate peasant farmers.

      And yet you western Leftists keep saying you don't need to watch theory or can't understand it

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    In Africa they call her 'Sister Contrapoints'

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    by the way, this tweet was in reference of a current breadtube drama of peter coffin vs everyone

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        Hasan Piker got that NYT write-up. Peter Coffin says it's an example of how people like him aren't a challenge to power and segues that into a criticism of Breadtube (mostly stating how neoliberalism's co-opting it slowly), which has been his thing to criticize for the past month or so at least (I don't follow him much). He and his crew make a blend of accurate and inaccurate (and usually pretentious) observations about how the left should be, how it should go beyond Breadtube, etc. Twitter people refuse to be normal and discussion breaks down into people arguing over tiny topics once the main topic's been lost in the haze of Twitter reposts and responses. Literally none of it's more useful or intelligent than stuff that's been said on Chapo.

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    This guy's analysis is NOT nearly pessimistic enough lol

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    Just as how you should only vote for revolutionary politicians, you should only watch revolutionary YouTube channels. Only Hakim. There is no one else. And also hand tool woodworkers, they're okay, they're just craftsmen building stuff.

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    Idk, bread tube definitely was a major influence on me moving left. There is a lot of legitimately good stuff in there. Especially Olly, Contra up to like a year ago. I still like Angie Speaks and Peter Coffin etc...

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    Yeah, lefty twitter (broadly speaking) is going through some stuff.