It's not that he's wrong or cynical or the wrong kind of doomerpilled or whatever

It's just that he's pointing out problems without offering anything better. Criticizing people for being mad online but even admitting no real other solutions exist.

I really don't know what to do about that besides stay mad. :(

edit:

https://twitter.com/Solidarity_Star/status/1356820922485903361

Matt is Bashir and we're all Rom in desperate need of a Chief O'Brien to help up bridge that gap between good theory and good practice.

I am not sober right now.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    His streams really just hammer over and over that getting mad on reddit/twitter is unproductive and addictive, his solution is to do something else and he believes that in the act of actual revolutionary praxis a lot of the minor squabbles that eat up our attention in the fake praxis world of internet forums (such as yelling at people for being in the wrong leftist tendency) will melt away.

    It's nothing mind-blowing, but it's the kind of thing that might be productive to have yelled at you multiple times until it clicks. He's also said in his most recent stream that he's going to stop talking about this train of thought and start writing it down since saying basically the same thing over and over has become a form of procrastination from doing his own more productive work.

    • ant9 [he/him,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      The problem is there is no actual outlet for any of this so pointing it out doesn't actually accomplish anything.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        unless I'm misunderstanding, he's saying real-world interests are a better outlet

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            edit-2
            4 years ago

            really? I've heard him mention it so many times, it's a common theme with grillpill

            I remember a long discussion where talks about how he regrets the name "grillpill" and goes into it, it does feed a misconception from before had fully developed the idea

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      It's also not true, or at least it hasn't historically been so, I mean look at the incredible squabbling in the post 68 new left after the SDS disintegrated. It's certainly worse online though.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        4 years ago

        the internet is nothing but squabble at least those groups did something even if most of them were just radlibs